DecemberDec 31 Thursday 09
Top 10 of 2009
Albums of 2009The Long Fall Back to Earth - Jars of ClayForget and Not Slow Down - Relient KHello Hurricane - SwitchfootBlack Swan - AthleteIn The Hands of God - NewsboysFelt - Anchor and BrailleAbsence - Paper RouteEllipse - Imogen HeapChurch Music - David …
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DecemberDec 30 Wednesday 09
The Things I See
I take a lot of photos on my iPhone. Sometimes they are quick snapshots to remember something I see and other times it’s because that’s the only camera I have with me at the time. With the plethora of photo-editing apps available in the app store, it’s really easy …
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DecemberDec 23 Wednesday 09
A Manifesto
Designers love manifestos. By definition, a manifesto is “a public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions,” essentially, a set of guidelines to work by. Studios write manifestos as a message to their clients to show their process and guiding principles …
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DecemberDec 19 Saturday 09
Design as Journalism, or, Finding the Interesting
In a recent interview, Malcolm Gladwell was asked how he finds such interesting subjects and has the fortune of writing on an array of fascinating topics. He responded by saying:[By default] I think everyone’s interesting.
When people are talking about something they …
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DecemberDec 14 Monday 09
Craft, Craftsmanship, and Getting Your Hands Dirty
When I was preparing to graduate from Northampton Community College, I had to assemble a portfolio to present my work to professionals in the field to show the work I had done over the last two years. In addition to being graded on the art elements and the understanding …
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DecemberDec 13 Sunday 09
“This Christmas” 2009 Mix Now Available
For the past three years, I’ve put together a collection of my current favorite Christmas songs into an online mix that I’ve made available as a free download. Although it took me a little longer to get everything together this year, I’m please to announce the …
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DecemberDec 10 Thursday 09
New Work: Glass Envelope (Part 1)
Last year, I designed a few t-shirts for McPherson, KS based pop-punk band Glass Envelope. Over the course of that year, in addition to extensive touring, the band has been in the studio recording their first album and asked me to design all the packaging and …
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DecemberDec 7 Monday 09
Content, Typography, Egos and Decoration
I’ve been thinking lately about the role of the graphic design, content, and typography. At the foundation, graphic designers are called to be communicators. Our main priority to is to present a particular message in a quick and concise manner. And we do this …
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NovemberNov 26 Thursday 09
Things I Am Thankful for (in no particular order):
Jesus, my family and friends, music, my school, Apple products, Keurig K-cups, pumpkin muffins, the new albums from Switchfoot and Relient K, Toms Shoes, Evernote, Helvetica, grids, my roommates, the Mars Hill podcast, being outside, the fact that the coffee shop ladies …
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NovemberNov 25 Wednesday 09
You Really Are Fantastic
2009 seems to be a year filled with “children’s movies” with deeper stories that everyone can enjoy. Pixar’s Up was an heartfelt story of life, death, friendship, and adventure and then Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are took a mature …
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NovemberNov 20 Friday 09
Less is More?
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter)--so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.
—Robert Browning, from the poem “Andrea Del Sarto” Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright during the Victorian era …
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NovemberNov 12 Thursday 09
Learning to Work with Constraints, or, What’s Missing in Design Education
This is how it goes: You get a new project. You meet with the client and discuss what the design needs to accomplish, what problems it needs to solve, maybe some of the aesthetics, a budget, a general timeline and any other pertinent information. You then slave away in …
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NovemberNov 9 Monday 09
Switchfoot ‘Hello Hurricane’ Review
“The storms of this life shatter our plans. They tear through our world and destroy our hopes and dreams. They ruin sunny days, flatten the structures we depend on, and shock our world views. Hello Hurricane is an attempt to sing into the storm. Hello Hurricane is a …
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NovemberNov 2 Monday 09
Five Years
What does one write on their blog that has fallen to the wayside over the past couple months to celebrate it’s fifth anniversary? Do you write anything at all? Do you even mention that you’ve been meagerly slaving away for five years on a little blog that maybe no …
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OctoberOct 31 Saturday 09
This Is It
When Michael Jackson died in June, just shy of his fiftieth birthday, the world lost mourned the loss of arguably the greatest entertainer of our time. Maybe even the greatest entertainer of all time. Personal problems and molestation cases stole the spotlight from his …
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OctoberOct 30 Friday 09
Recent Photography
Shortly after I moved to Philadelphia for a brief time in 2007, I went on many photographic excursions to help get acquainted with my new city. I spent a Saturday a few weeks ago doing the same thing for my most recent town. There is a strong contrast of the rural …
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OctoberOct 24 Saturday 09
Designer For Hire
After a very successful summer of freelancing work and in the final stages of a few projects, I'm currently looking to take on some more projects from now till the end of the year.
I'm looking for work in print design, web design, logo/identity development, product …
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OctoberOct 17 Saturday 09
Where The Wild Things Are
Years in the making and continuously delayed, Spike Jonze’s adapation of Where The Wild Things Are is finally here and after seeing it opening night, I can confidently say it was worth the wait. In my “mini-review” on Twitter immediately following the film I said: …
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OctoberOct 13 Tuesday 09
New Work: Various Personal Pieces
The past few weeks have been very light on freelance work allowing me to focus some energies on some personal experiments and projects. When I was just getting started in design and learning the programs, most of my time was spent approaching design from a more art …
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OctoberOct 6 Tuesday 09
The Three Hour Tour
It’s not often a tour line-up features three bands I like. So that’s why I get really excited to see that Relient K was taking Copeland and Barcelona along on their Fall tour this year, the humorously named The Three Hour Tour. I’ve been listening to Relient K …
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