Design Thinking // Posted on June 22, 2010
The past month has been a time of reflection for me as I look back at my education and rationalize with my choices. It’s a coming to peace journey. One of my biggest regrets coming out of my undergraduate is that I didn’t do more (and a result as I review my student loans!). I [...]
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Flickr 9000 // Posted on June 15, 2010
I find it hard to imagine a world where the Internet is not in existence. Every now and again I find creatives on the web that are using the medium of the Internet as a platform for their design, particuarly curious non-mainstream design. I somehow had neglected revisiting Flickr 9000′s photostream, even after bookmarking it [...]
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James Victore: Sensation Design // Posted on June 11, 2010
I remember watching a short youtube film in a graphics class that chronicled the careers of some noteworthy American designers. One of the designers popped out at me instantly: James Victore. He jumped out at me for a few very different reasons. My contemporaries would classify me as a heavily Swiss influenced designer. That is [...]
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The Typography of “Where the Wild Things Are” // Posted on May 22, 2010
I might be the last designer to hop on this train, but I think it is worth mentioning especially as this blog is a chronicling of what is brewing in my brain. When the movie posters and trailers began to emerge for Where the Wild Things Are, I remember being taken aback by the type. [...]
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Search Engine Optimization Success: Wall Construction // Posted on May 12, 2010
Over the summer I re-developed the website of Wall Construction. Part of the challenge was getting this company to show up in search engines, primarily Google. The problem is the pun of the company’s name. Wall Construction faced competition from literally wall construction. I kept this in mind as I developed the new website, built [...]
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