Category Archives: Personal Journal

Typography Friday - Typographic “Boo?” Ghost Wallpaper

August 15, 2008 – 5:36 pm

I just found out about the Flickr group called, Typography Friday which encourages designers to create a typographic design for fun every friday. It sounds like fun and I decided to submit the above wide screen desktop wallpaper I made of a little ghost and a typographic “Boo?”. You can download the 2560×1600 [...]

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Chocolate Landscape - Wallpaper calendar design for May

April 30, 2008 – 1:10 am

My design was featured in Smashing Magazine’s desktop wallpaper calendar collection for May 2008. The download links for a variety of sizes are in the post on their website. There’s even versions without the calendar on it. It’s a cool idea, the only thing that bugs me is the watermark requirement. [...]

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Earth Day poster series - Fair Trade?

April 22, 2008 – 9:03 am

I recently designed a 3 part poster series for earth day. The idea is to get people to think about the things they take from nature and the things they put into it and decide if they are “trading fairly” with nature. It was made by taking my illustrations and printing them out, [...]

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Sustainability “nutrition” labels for houses

April 10, 2008 – 10:50 am

I love the creative solution for publishing the sustainability facts for this house design. The nutrition label layout makes the figures much more “digestible” (sorry, that pun wasn’t planned, I swear). It might get more people to think that they should treat house shopping in a similar way to food shopping. When [...]

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I don’t normally do online quiz things, but..

February 12, 2008 – 2:29 pm

This one was nerdy enough and it fit me pretty well

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Is Obama Muslim

February 8, 2008 – 1:36 am

When you start typing something into Google it gives suggestions based on what is searched most often by people typing in the words you are typing at the time. This feature is helpful sometimes, but more often, just interesting to see what is popular on the internet. Alex Micek, of Tumbledry.org, pointed out [...]

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William Fitzsimmons

January 28, 2008 – 12:19 pm

The music of William Fitzsimmons consists of hushed, soothing vocals, reminiscent of Iron and Wine, combined with gentle acoustic folk melodies. The part that really sets him apart from the masses is the superb integration of electronic elements, creating an atmosphere you can almost swim in.
 

 
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