It’s beautiful in Tahoe right now!
Life is good!!! I love food!
Love my new toy!!!!
365 DAYS OF DESIGN! (Day 17)
Decided to start playing with QR codes. This was a fun one! I know it doesn’t look that hard, and really it isn’t. But it isn’t as easy as it looks either. You have to be careful with what you do with QR codes because you need to be sure that scanners can still read the code despite what you do with the design. For a first try, I would say this was successful. :)
Just finished my new logo! I think its clean, simple and smart! I really like it. I can’t wait to put it everywhere. Whenever people see this bird they will think of me! :)
365 DAYS OF DESIGN! (Day 16)
When I decided to do 365 days of design (several months ago) I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to do a new design everyday. But I did expect to be way past day 16 by now. SHEESH!!! I think it’s about time to start committing more time to this project!
Anyway, back on track. I have been commissioned by a local video game retailer to design some marketing material for a launch party they are having for the very highly anticipated Modern Warfare 3 or MW3 for short. I don’t have any of the official artwork. Not even the logo of the video game. So I decided to recreate it… The hardest part was figuring out which fonts were used in the original. I don’t think I used exact matches, but pretty darn close. After that the process really is pretty simple. Simple typography really. Now it isn’t an EXACT copy. But if you were walking by and you saw it on a poster, I don’t think you would even notice. What do you think?
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened.”
Douglas Coupland (via franzenealthea)
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Great read!
A generation with self-love for sale:
I’m sitting in a coffee shop on Wednesday afternoon in a midsize, noncoastal American city. A fiftysomething is screaming into his cell phone; the woman sitting next to me is frantically blogging about her favorite new movie, Julie & Julia, a flick about the success of a narcissist and her blog; a pair of tweens just cut the checkout line; and I just got a spam e-mail for penis enlargement.
A lot of this is harmless, of course. There’s no great damage done when your buddy spams you with pictures of himself getting lap-danced at a Vegas strip joint. The future of the republic is not imperiled by a rise in the number of assholes who drive over the median to cut in front of traffic at the freeway’s clogged exit. And sure, the planet will survive in spite of the rise in cosmetic surgeries.
There is, however, potential for damage when the achievement of fame and wealth becomes the central organizing objective of society. The future of the republic is threatened by a sharp increase in the number of people who care only about themselves, and the earth’s ecosystem may not survive the scourge of the smog-belching and gas-guzzling “me” culture that first spread in the late 1970s and 1980s. This modern blast of narcissism all but defines America now, an ugly symptom of a deeper infection that predates the rise of the Internet.
The deification of the individual and further suggestion that self-help can turn us into divinities ultimately gave rise to the virus in the machine. That’s what modern narcissism really is—a pernicious mix of qualities defined by three phrases that start with self: selfishness, self-absorption, and self-importance. Read more …
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