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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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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