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Category Archives: design
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
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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Tagged copyright, fair use, illustration, Obama, Photoshop, plagiarism, poster fail
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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
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
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
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
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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