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How the Internet sees me

In what has to be the coolest thing I have seen online today, my LDSA Frank shared Personas Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the … Continue reading

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What’s Right is Relative

If you read Flickr Censors Political Image Critical of President Obama by Thomas Hawk, you’ll see an interesting discussion centered around a Photoshop’d photograph of President Obama and Flickr’s decision to remove the image. Firas Alkhateeb, a 20-year-old college student … Continue reading

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Jhames of All Trades, Master of Brown

I am often asked “What do you enjoy most?” when people view my portfolio. My history showcases work in copywriting, visual identity, print, web, and interactive design—there are also the sitemap and wireframe documents I produce for some clients which … Continue reading

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Currently under FontStruction

When I’m not looking after three dogs or working on a site redesign for a client, I pass the time at FontStruct designing fonts. (Some people like to read books or work on home improvement projects. Me? I like to … Continue reading

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In which I solve my own Identity Crisis

During brand discovery, the client answers a series of questions about their mission and company values which the designer uses to produce myriad design directions. A visual identity (or brand) will take shape and eventually form somewhere between the client’s … Continue reading

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Look at me, I’m a Fontographer!

A tweet from Paul Mayor brought me to Just—My—Type™ where one can download various typeface designs in Illustrator format. The site brought back memories of college and how I would constantly draw letters in my sketchbooks & notebooks. Classmates would look … Continue reading

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The end of print web

So let’s have a chat about blogs and newspapers. Seattle is home to many a newspaper, now one less with the passing of Seattle Post-Intelligencer in print format, two of which are free weekly publications: Seattle Weekly and The Stranger. … Continue reading

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Letting off creative steam

CREATE YOUR DEBUT ALBUM COVER Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. (Alternatively, if the first article you hit is short, hit Random Article two more times.) Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3The last four … Continue reading

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Don’t mess with the bull, son.

Since 2003 I was doing all my design work on a 17″ PowerBook G4 with a 17″ Studio Display. Five years later, I upgraded my design studio for a desktop and larger display. I decided to transfer my files from … Continue reading

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Hope for a better world

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