Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14

I am so happy Logorama won for best short animation. It deserves it. # A nice Vector. RT @vectorvn: Creative Bulletin Board : http://bit.ly/aT4DwY # Congrats Logorama! marketing http://goo.gl/ezg6 # Tiki & Peter Sellers? Nothing wrong with that! The Party, Peter...

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To seek, to find, to design and not to yield.

Design Something Everyday 14/365 This was a design based on one of my favorite poems, Ulysses, by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The poem is very moving, and has the great hero Ulysses (Odysseus in Greek) at the end of his life...

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Design Something Everyday 13/365

I was at the park with my kids playing in the sand box and I recalled this quote from Chip Kidd's wonderful novel The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters: "Design is purposeful planning... Graphic design is the...

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Twitter Updates for 2010-03-06

As I rush to finish a ton of projects I realize that the great philosophers INXS had it right when they said "Not enough time." # A good introduction to Albin's Countergambit http://goo.gl/zRmZ # If you love models, as I do...

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Twitter Updates for 2010-03-05

Is listening to Tiki music idolatry? # Good to know. Blueprint For A Successful Design Blog | Design | PelFusion.com http://goo.gl/cVVM # Tweeting about twitter, doesn't that create a paradox in spacetime? Freelancers ayou should use twitter | Creative Nerds http://goo.gl/fSgi...

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Polyphemus Gives Odysseus’s Men a Hand

Design Something Everyday: 12/365 Here's a little sketch for my design something every day project. Imagine yourself as one of clever Odysseus' men in the cave of the Cyclops, and one-eyed Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, reaches down to devour you,...

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Twitter Updates for 2010-03-04

An excellent collection of mid-century goodness! Vintage Chrome Postcards http://vintagechromes.blogspot.com/ # Take that Edward! via boingboingDown for the Count by ~poopbear on deviantART http://goo.gl/sihg # Good post. HOWTO make smarter dumb mistakes about the future - Boing Boing http://goo.gl/Rblw # your daily...

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A Map of the Underworld according Virgil’s Aeneid Rendered as a Subway Map

Design Something Everyday 11/365: In honor of my love of maps, information graphics and Virgil, I decided to imagine Aeneas journey as if it were a subway map. So enjoy. Don't forget your subway token's for Charon! I have always...

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Twitter Updates for 2010-03-03

Very interesting tutorial. How to Create a Vector Series of Linear Effects | Vectortuts+ http://goo.gl/5zQN # More Tiki Urban Archeology from Michael Fitzgerald's Blog | From the San Joaquin Media Group. http://goo.gl/EBi4 # Nice rusty textures. Free Texture Tuesday: Rust 3...

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Design Something Everyday 10/365

Another "CD Cover Design Game" In hindsight it probably didn't work as well as I would of liked, but blogs are for experimentation. Though I must admit I am rather fond of the typeface, Caflisch Script Pro. It is...

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Design Something Everyday 9/365

An homage to one of my favorite movies, David Lean's masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia, done in motivational computer desktop wall paper style. A film that was truly meant for the big screen.

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Random CD Cover Design Game

Design Something Every Day 8/ 365 I read about this along time ago on the Facebook Group: Create your Own CD Cover. I like to call it the "Random CD Cover Game." By harnessing the power of the internet, it...

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