ARLO VANCE

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The Sub/Conscious Meanderings of a Design Philandros

Category Archives: The Digest

19 People, 5 Words

This week­end I spent two long—but not bor­ing or dreadful—days up at Snowbird with the board for AIGA Salt Lake. With new mem­bers mak­ing up half the board, it was great to share ideas, make friends, and develop our col­lec­tive vision for the chap­ter this year. Over the two days, 17 board mem­bers (two were only […]

Meaningful Connections

I have long thought that mean­ing­ful con­nec­tions are the fab­ric of a qual­ity life, whether between peo­ple, ideas or things. I found this lovely quote attrib­uted to Steve Jobs regard­ing con­nec­tions we make in the ‘cre­ative’ realm. Creativity is just con­nect­ing things. When you ask cre­ative peo­ple how they did some­thing, they feel a lit­tle guilty because they didn’t really […]

Green Week 2010

Today is the last day of GreenWeek at 3form, a week focused solely on sus­tain­abil­ity. I’ve been employed for two months now and have had a total trans­for­ma­tion in my thoughts about what a cor­po­ra­tion can do about sus­tain­abil­ity in Utah. All it takes is a com­mit­ted team and some aggres­sive goals: 1. Stop send­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing waste to land­fill. Although […]

Passionate Relevance

Now that I have a lovely blog (in my opin­ion) the next task that’s eat­ing at me is to keep the con­tent rel­e­vant. But how, and for whom? I think this is the root issue behind why I’ve had dif­fi­culty keep­ing posts reg­u­lar instead of every once in a blue moon. Once I made the deci­sion to redesign my website, […]

Qualitism

Prime Objective 16 is to pub­lish Graymatters, a peri­odic pub­li­ca­tion that serves as an incu­ba­tor for ideas, a sound­ing board for rants, a cel­e­bra­tion of excel­lence, and a lab­o­ra­tory for typo­graphic exper­i­men­ta­tion. This post is the first article/​​essay in issue 1. The plan is to have peri­odic arti­cles posted here and on a com­pan­ion blog, that is yet to be […]

Eight Pounds of Carrots

Austin and I have been order­ing gro­ceries for almost as long as we’ve been with­out a car. The dis­cov­ery came after a cou­ple months of walk­ing to and from the store, back­packs and bags in tow, laden with too many pounds of food for our poor backs to han­dle com­fort­ably. The 10 block walk started to become drudgery. […]

On to…

Now the my BFA is finally fin­ished, I have free time to fill. Luckily I’m good at that. In fact, I already have a cou­ple projects I’ve added: 1. I’m a con­trib­u­tor to a new blog called ‘the syl­labus’ We’ve just started get­ting con­tent together so we have a good launch. It’s focused on graphic design stu­dents and young graphic design professionals, […]

My Type of Humor

Just because I laughed out loud. A lot.

Daphne’s Almost Done

After a very long (and some­what rainy) day, my back is tired and my eyes can barely be kept open. Here’s the lat­est ver­sion of Daphne. I’m start­ing to lose track of all the glyphs, but I think it’s some­where around 650. Anyway, the end of the tun­nel is near. Enjoy.

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