A good friend and mentor, Brian Pikalow, once explained to me that humans are a lot like containers. We can only hold so much before we eventually get so bloated that we either can’t move or we explode. There’s a simple fix to this and it’s rather simple (not to be confused with easy). ForContinue Reading

Hobbledehoy 1. An awkward, ungainly youth. I thought this picture was only fitting. Sorry guys. Find out more about hobbledehoy at wordnik.com.

I think I was six when I caught my first fish. I remember it being much larger, but the picture we have says that it was about the size of a large potato chip. In the picture I was holding it up like a trophy of my conquests, my long skinny legs jutting out ofContinue Reading

I left my last job a few months ago for one primary reason. I was a designer working in a vacuum. I was the only designer in the company, a position a lot of people would love (you get paid well, they can’t afford to lose you, etc. ). However, I have a core beliefContinue Reading

After a conversation at lunch today with Sven Elligen and Alex Coles, I have come one step closer to realizing how I fit into this online design community thing, and the answer is… not as much as I thought. For the past few years I have been trying to make the connection between the designContinue Reading

When I got the email my heart skipped a beat. I was on vacation, checking up on things from an airport in Tahiti. This brought a sense of gravity to our vacation that I wasn’t really expecting. I mean, I had applied to work with them, and I knew (or at least I thought) IContinue Reading

Soon may be relative. I just wanted to point out that I am aware that this blog site could use a redesign. This is a template, a fact that makes me somewhat nauseous. As soon as I get a spare minute, I will be changing this. Until then, you’ll have to wait in dire anticipaiton.

Today we are featuring some creative uses of type that will hopefully keep you awake. First is a composite of Gramond from just power lines. Creative, and, honestly, a little more work than I’d put into it, but hey, still good stuff. And I’ve joined the iLoveTypography “my favourite letters group” on Flickr. Not totallyContinue Reading

This video by Sony is simply phenomenal. The color is obviously breathtaking… that’s what the advert is for. But beyond that, they really nailed it with the movement of the dominoes mirroring the action in the shots they chose, as well as choosing some really great cinematography. But they didn’t stop there. The lighting isContinue Reading