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Type Thursdays 3

Designed by Beth Shirrell, a recent grad from Tyler School of Art, designed Kalakari as part of her MFA. It also won first place in the AIGA Center for Cross-​​​​Cultural Design Competition. This orna­men­tal dis­play face takes inspi­ra­tion from Hindi archi­tec­ture and the art of henna. Kalakari trans­lates from Hindi to English to mean ornamentation

Swipe Saturday 3 (On Monday)

So this week­end was a lit­tle busier than I antic­i­pated, so sorry for the delay. ‘what con­sumes me’ by bud cadell

The Living Principles

The new Living Principles site is up and ready for some involve­ment. It’s for­mat­ted in such a way that you have the capa­bil­ity to post con­tent as well as peruse what oth­ers post. The oppor­tu­nity to cre­ate dia­log about sus­tain­abil­ity that isn’t directly tied to one pro­fes­sion will help cross-​​​​pollinate and develop a grow­ing com­mu­nity. The New […]

Swipe Saturday 2

If I played ping pong, I would have one—or two—of these. For Puma by Aruliden.

I Wanna be Part of The Club

A new bold bou­tique hotel in Singapore called The Club. By Ministry of Design. Via Contemporist​.com. Photos by CI&A Photography.

The Week After

So it’s been a week since I returned to work after attend­ing my first AIGA Leadership Retreat. Chattanooga, TN was (I’m sure) a rel­a­tively quiet city until nearly 300 devoted AIGA lead­ers descended. Our chap­ter was able to send 5. We arrived early in the morn­ing, just in time to grab a cou­ple hours light sleep before begin­ning what […]

New = Work

After the launch of my new port­fo­lio web­site, I decided I should cus­tomize my blog to have a more seam­less inter­ac­tion with it. Well, hun­dreds of hours later try­ing to cre­ate a WordPress theme from scratch, I’ve launched the new look—which still needs a lot of work. I’ll be updat­ing old posts so they fit within the new frame­work better, […]

Daphne finally gets an italic

It’s been a long time com­ing, but Daphne is finally get­ting an italic. I’ve been mak­ing adjust­ments to the roman and finally had time to work out a pre­lim­i­nary design for the italic. It’s still really rough, but worth post­ing about. At the port­fo­lio review this last week, a friend of mine asked me to try and post a little […]

Weekend Serif

Having a long week­end always does won­ders for projects that, dur­ing a nor­mal work week, I have no time for. This week­end I was able to get a very pre­lim­i­nary ver­sion of a serif I’ve been stew­ing about for quite some time. It’s a sharp Baskerville, which is fairly well-​​​​known for its curves. There are still a lot of tweaks to make, but […]

Graphic Design on Reality TV…Really?

After read­ing another blog about the upcom­ing show, I was appalled by the severe lack of design finesse pro­fess­ing to search out America’s top designer. So…I wrote a quick email express­ing my dis­taste. I find it intrigu­ing that a real­ity show sup­pos­edly search­ing for “America’s Top Graphic Designer” has lit­tle con­cern for how it rep­re­sents itself visu­ally and […]

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