Remember the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Let us remember that we have not yet reached the mountain top, and as a society and as individuals we must striving to live up to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King.

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Animated Abstract Book Covers

Animated Abstract Book Covers

This is a pretty amazing fusion of graphic design and motion graphics. German designer & animator or Henning M. Lederer puts historic minimalistic cover designs into motion. In many ways it reminds me somewhat of Oskar Fischinger's pioneering abstract...

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Follow Socialist Modernism on Instagram

Follow Socialist Modernism on Instagram

Thought I'd share one of my favorite feeds on Instagram, Socialist Modernism. A great feed that is used to create an interactive map that gives the context, history and ultimately meant to preserve Soviet Modernist architecture before it is...

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Happy New Year (and 5 things I never want to hear about in 2018)

Happy New Year (and 5 things I never want to hear about in 2018)

Happy New Year to everyone! Hard to believe the Earth did it again, orbiting the Sun like that, amazing! It's always a bit of a myopic view we humans have when we say, "I can't believe another year has past."...

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Inspirational Design Talk: Jessie Kawata

This October I was lucky enough to attend the fantastic 2017 AIGA conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was a very inspirational conference. Sadly, I didn't have a chance to attend the Eye on Design conference, held the day before...

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Some fun wine labels and a turkey

Some fun wine labels and a turkey

Last no my wife and I were picking up a turkey from the grocery store. The day after Thanksgiving is the perfect time to pickup a cheap bird. While she decided which one would soon be joining our family,...

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The force is strong with airline graphics

The force is strong with airline graphics

I work at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport quite often, which for a designer is great because I am lucky to get to see some of the cool artwork that the different airlines put on their aircraft. My favorite by far...

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Holiday Sweater Video

As we get a little closer to the holiday season, thought I'd share this video that I put together for the Port of Seattle for the holidays. By taking Jake Bartlett's amazing skill share class I learned the technique...

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