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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.

Marua Update

The last few days have been relatively productive for my BFA. I’m pretty pleased with the overall direction of Marua. It’s still in the first phase of design as I’ve just barely digitized the characters. I’ll still have several rounds of changes before i settle on a final design. But here’s a quick image of [...]

Water, Politics and Hope part 2

As an addendum to the last post, here is some more information about the exhibit itself. A couple designers put together a website with artist statements and more information. Water/Politics/ and Hope The site will be updated within the next week to include photography of the exhibit. I’m pretty impressed with the whole thing. Let [...]

Water, Politics and Hope

The first exhibition of the semester is now under way. I officially had my piece hung at 12:32 p.m. today. As part of a week long audit of my water usage, I produced a newspaper called ‘The Tributary’ outlining interesting facts about worldwide water consumption. After two sleepless nights and nearly 12 hours printing, I [...]

Leap Day (A Little Late)

I thought it would be interesting to do a retrospective of the last Leap Day. Although I don’t have the most accurate records of what I did on that day, I do have sketchbooks to put me in the general directions. So this post will have heavy design content. Four years ago I was living [...]

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