ARLO VANCE

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The Sub/Conscious Meanderings of a Design Philandros

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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.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

2 in 2

I’ve received two notices within the last two days that I’ll be fea­tured in two pub­li­ca­tions: 1. Graphis New Talent Annual and 2. Design School Confidential, by Stephen Heller and pub­lished by Rockport (I’ll keep you posted when it’s avail­able). Between the two pub­li­ca­tions, 10 of my 12 class­mates will also be fea­tured. I’m just […]

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.

Shaping Up Marua

After a brief hia­tus from design out­side of work, I’m back with some updates to Marua. I think she’s shap­ing up rather nicely, but of course still needs some touchups. I’m almost to point where I feel com­fort­able design­ing sup­port mate­ri­als for the exhi­bi­tion. As things get pro­duced I’ll make sure to post updates. I think there’s enough promise […]

So Fresh, So Clean

Now that school is wrap­ping up, I decided to redesign the blog. I’m now using WordPress, which I like much bet­ter already. I imag­ine that things will con­tinue to be updated and changed just to finesse what’s here, but I’m pretty happy with how things are arranged. Please let me know your thoughts on the changes.

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