Vernacular Typography on 35th Avenue

I went on an night stroll through my neighborhood recently, in addition to the exercise and fresh air, I find it to be a great time to be alone and think. On this stroll I paid particular attention to...

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My Weekly Design: Lunar New Year Animated Card

For quite a while I'd been doing a "design something every day" project and it was a lot of fun. But recently family life and other projects have taken much of my time and I've decided to scale back...

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Haunted by Robert Graves

I found the great collection of poems by Robert Graves, Poems About War at the Library the other day. Yes, I still go to the Library, it's a joy that computers can't replace, but I digress. These poems deal...

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Clip Art University!

A little design poking fun at cliché stock photography. It was fun making the subtle texture with layer effects in Phtoshop.

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Check Out My Daily Design Experiments…

I've been creating daily designs made in 15 minutes or so and putting them up on special flickr set. I am using this as a way to experiment and hone my craft.  Check them out...

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Design Something Every Day: Bigfoot, A Memoir

A little goof, an imagined book jacket for Bigfoot's memoir.

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Design Something Every Day: Purple Phoenix Productions

The following 5 logos were proposed ideas for a musical production company.

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Design Something Every Day: Dr D’s Old Time Rock n’ Soul Revue

The following three logos were some proposed logo ideas for a Rock and Soul Revue that I was working on. Design Something Every Day 34-35-36/365

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Design Something Every Day: Lucky

A little practice with compositing using some stock images from www.photoxpress.com and a picture I took of a coin operated Buddha fortune telling machine at the Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Las Vegas. Miracle Mile is a very big...

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Design Something Every Day: Tilt Shift Disneyland

Another little test with tilt shift fakery from a picture I took while riding the Dumbo Ride overlooking Fantasyland at Disneyland a couple of years ago. I've learned from this experiment, that tilt shift techniques work much better with shots...

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Twilight of the Idols

Very sad news. The custodian at my work was dusting and "accidentally" knocked over on of my many Tikis. Traumatic to say the least. Hope he doesn't plan any surfing any time soon or he'll find out, just like...

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Design Something Every Day 29/365

For this entry into my Design Something Every Day project I created a digital doodle for one of the greatest books of the 20th Century, William Golding's Lord of the Flies. The book pulls back the curtain of civilized...

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