ARLO VANCE

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The Sub/Conscious Meanderings of a Design Philandros

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Broken Promise

I swore I’d never do it—that I’d never need to do it. But I did…and I liked it. There’s some­thing imme­di­ately tan­gi­ble about pro­gram­ming that design doesn’t seem to have, although tech­ni­cally web devel­op­ment falls under the graphic design dis­ci­pline. Plus there’s the ful­fill­ment of my obses­sion with detail and orga­ni­za­tion. I wrote my new web­site from scratch […]

The Perfect Christmas Gift

This beau­ti­ful home has been added to the wish list. All you rich peo­ple who have money to throw around, please send some my way. .

214 Days Later

Unfortunately this is not a report of some debil­i­tat­ing dis­ease from a lab test gone bad that spreads through the pop­u­la­tion like wild­fire, turn­ing peo­ple into zom­bies. This is just me tak­ing account of my inabil­ity to write a blog post. Kinda pathetic really. But it’s a turn­ing point, even though it’s taken me a few days shy of a month […]

I’ve been FFFFound!

At the close of a long day at work, my co-​​​​worker Brad turned to me and said, “You’ve been fff­found!”. To my dis­be­lief, I saw the logo con­cept I had designed for the New York Public Library star­ing back at me from his com­puter screen. Now for the expla­na­tion: As design­ers, we often look for inspi­ra­tion as we do […]

Marua Got Fat

After a brief hia­tus from all things school-​​​​related, I’m start­ing to wrap up my BFA. The newest devel­op­ment is that Marua got fat. Please don’t judge her. Fat women are beau­ti­ful, too. I’m also work­ing on the italic, too. So that should be posted pretty soon. (Hopefully).

A Breath

After gasp­ing for air for the last few days, run­ning around try­ing to tie up lose ends on this project and that test, it was immensely refresh­ing to walk out of my last final, pause for a moment, and take a deep breath. I was the first to fin­ish the final in my Business Management class. I took a refreshing […]

Slow Motion

The pace of my life has sig­nif­i­cantly decreased within the last week. I have two more finals to take and my BFA to fin­ish, but most every­thing else has tapered to a close. I’ll hope­fully be updat­ing my web­site within the next cou­ple weeks with more work. I might be under­tak­ing an over­haul of my blog also, but […]

Daily Documentary

My fame as a type designer has begun. Okay, not really, but I was asked to par­tic­i­pâté in a very inter­est­ing project that high­lights cre­atives in the Salt Lake area. Dallas Graham, the owner of Montage Creative has started a per­sonal project that delves into the depths of indi­vid­u­als artis­tic endeavors—as deep as you can get in 45 minutes. […]

Upper– and Lower-​​case com­plete (for the most part)

I spent most of the week­end work­ing over the upper­case and finessed a lit­tle on the low­er­case. I’m excited about the progress but almost over­whelmed by the sheer amount of work I still have to com­plete in the next three weeks. So here goes the lit­tle engine that could. I think I can.

Michael Beirut on Typography

In the most recent issue of The Atlantic, there’s an inter­est­ing arti­cle about typog­ra­phy. I never thought that the topic of typog­ra­phy would be so widely dis­cussed among non-​​​​designers, but with the preva­lence of the do-​​​​it-​​​​yourself men­tal­ity that has soft­ware devel­op­ers and Martha Stewart rak­ing in the dough, it’s prob­a­bly about time.

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