July 2011
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This GIF
Is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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That explains all my new followers ...
Cool! Eatsleepdraw posted my Kurt Vonnegut book cover.
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What Web Designers Can Learn From Video Games →
“How many people would never fall in love if they hadn’t heard the word?”
– La Rochefoucauld
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WatchHappy Designers makes good design: Talk by Don Norman
I’M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE. {Mike Lacher} →
Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg. You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room...
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Favicon Tutorial
Step One. Make your stupid icon. Step two. Rename the stupid .png to .ico Step Three. Link it. <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon” /> Step Four. There is no step four, it’s that easy. To all the people who made long elaborate tutorials on how to make a favicon. You suck. Next time lead with “there is no fancy...
99North is up (the under construction page,... →
Sandwich Illustration
My latest client is building a website for restaurant gift certificates. He asked me to illustrate a little something for it to roll through for different types of restaurants. We’re still working out the style - but per my usual style, here’s a peak (I added the background just for posting today… I couldn’t just post something floating all by itself…) Without the...
WatchMany things worth thinking about. Tim Harford: Trial, Error & the God Complex. His points are certainly how I feel about logo design…
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Job Posting Entertainment ...
So I’m searching for a job today, and I’m finding some pretty entertaining Job requirements …
Technical Artist Special Skills Requirement: “Hand-eye co-ordination, Ability to distinguish between colours, Sitting”
Graphic Designer Work Environment: “Must be willing to use yoga ball as chair” “Sharing playlists with co-workers is...
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, ‘Why, why,...”
– Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle
Rejected Illustration: Zombie
Pretty self explanatory. Check out this rejected illustration (it just didn’t fit the feel he was going for).
And then I made him less … rotted … And the original sketch …
“In five years, we’ll all have phones that connect physical locations again,...”
– Shaping The Future by Charles Stross
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Trouble with Skype meetings ...
Okay, so I just got this amazing job, designing book covers for a web app. They want to fill a library, so I am really excited about the possibilities.
The company who is building this, is based out of Dublin, so, naturally, we had our meeting over skype. It went great! I was on top of my game, had important things to add about book cover design, examples of book covers I’ve done in the...
Hey. Look. I was featured on ToyDesign.com. →
Great place for a professional profile (the new... →
Hey. Look. I was featured on talent.adweek.com. →
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flechetta asked: you're a very good illustrator =)
“Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter, as the American...”
– Jon Stewart (via ederlezi)
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