Coachella Valley Savings

Quick thought for the day, I really love the Coachella Valley Savings designed by E Stewart Williams. This Palm Springs icon is such a lovely piece of modernist architecture. It really exemplifies what the movement was all about stylistically. Here's...

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Lost Gypsy

Lost Gypsy

Jimi Hendrix died 50 years ago yesterday. Only 27 years old he died on September 18, 1970. A tragic loss, especially for one so talented. I have two small connections to Jimi, first a friend of mine went to...

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Irrationally Excited for Dune

Irrationally Excited for Dune

I have always really enjoyed Frank Herbert's Dune and I've found the David Lynch film version utterly quotable. Many times in my high school days, I would spasticly jump around reenacting Sting's knife play with while holding a pen...

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#dailydesign

#dailydesign

Since the beginning of the year, I've been doing a little project where I create a design, animation, drawing, or video and post it to my Instagram Feed. This project is meant to be a fun outlet, giving me...

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Delightful Packaging on Ready Made Meats Products

Delightful Packaging on Ready Made Meats Products

While pursuing the aisles of one of our local Asian Markets, the cleverly if succinctly, named Asian Food Center, I really enjoyed some of the packaging on the ready made meat products. I really loved the lovable...

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2001 at 35,000 feet

2001 at 35,000 feet

On a recent trip instead of designing, drawing, or reading I settled down for the joy of inflight entertainment. Alaska Airlines had all the recent hits good and bad. After watching a recent Hollywood product I started poking around...

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Classic Skiing Stickers

Classic Skiing Stickers

On a recent trip to beautiful Whistler, British Columbia in Canada. I popped into the Whistler Museum and Archives to check out their exhibits. We discovered it after passing through the absolutely beautiful Whistler Public Library, a prime example...

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My favorite movie chase scenes

My favorite movie chase scenes

Random thought while I was stuck in traffic today, my favorite movie chase scenes: The French ConnectionThe Return of the Jedi speeder bikeRaiders of the Lost desert chaseET: The Extra Terrestrial bike chaseFast and the Furious 6 the tank chase

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Do the right thing

Dr Martin Luther King Jr. "The time is always right to do what is right." -Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

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Happy 6,022 Birthday Universe!

Happy 6,022 Birthday Universe!

Happy 6,022 birthday universe! Today is the birthday of the universe! At least according to the Ussher chronology, a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world calculated from a literal reading of the Bible by James Ussher, the Archbishop...

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L’Shana Tova!

L’Shana Tova!

One of my favorite periods in my career has been the years I spent working at Temple De Hirsch Sinai the largest Reform Synagogue in Seattle & Bellevue Washington. I learned a great deal about design and marketing, by...

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Weed’em and Reap

Weed’em and Reap

A friend of mine shared this with me the other day. As a fan of both good graphics and bad puns this is right up my alley! Who knew the Noxious Weed Control Board for Washington State could have...

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