ARLO VANCE

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The Sub/Conscious Meanderings of a Design Philandros

Tag Archives: graphic design

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Arrival

Daphne is finally here! I was able to get the exhi­bi­tion put together over the week­end and it’s finally being dis­played in the HFAC. Relief is such an inad­e­quate word to describe how I feel. I just hope that the response will be pos­i­tive. For those who aren’t able to attend, here are a few pic­tures of the exhibition. Enjoy.

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