Ben Terret over @ Noisy Decent Graphics, whose blog I authentically stumbled upon (versus finding it with the Stumble button in the Firefox StumbleUpon plugin) recently featured this sweet little find – a wine label with a perforated, tear-off stub to help you remember your recent jollification… or at least what wine you drank that…
I’m not a journalist (no, I’m not fishing for compliments), but there’s a shared seismic shift that the publications world shares with the print design world. As a graphic designer and a producer of B2B printed literature, publications and other marketing collateral, I see and hear constant reminders of the ground that the print medium…
[click on the image] Is there something wrong with me? Now before you send in your essays comments, let me just point out how we got here. I live near a Barnes & Noble, and go on fairly long walks with my dog Harry. Our county and town have ‘blue laws’ where most stores are…
Via PSFK, and ultimately Smith magazine, I came across the Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure concept and book. Though I’ve not yet read the book, the teaser video (see below) is simple and nicely made, and was inspiring enough to get me thinking about poetic brevity. The…
What in the world would one Wovel? Why, snow of course. Background: last night I had a self-promotion idea for my graphic design consultancy business: a tongue-in-cheek , snow shoveling-themed postcard. (We just received a few inches of sleet and snow here in north Jersey, USA.) I imagined the mailer employing some kind of infographical…
Click on the image to locate me amongst all these revelers. Oh, it’s hours of fun – just like my [k]night at Medieval Times dinner theater for my son Ian’s birthday (far right, red jacket). Don’t let this [sort of facial spasm] happen to you…
Not a discussion of football here, but I should state I’m a New Englander by birth. While I’m no rabid sports fanatic, I like football enough to have cheered on the Pats for many years. But just in case your cave doesn’t have a cable connection, they, uh…lost. Big. In a game that was sorta…