First of all, thanks for visiting. We both know there’s lots to read on the web, lots of outstanding and very focused blogs, and all sorts of valuable web content – articles, white papers, case studies, press releases… and let’s not forget good old-fashioned news. So you honor me with your attention. I’m here to…
Hand Crafted Confessions
My wife Jennifer (who I really should have write the beginning of this post, at least) returned this week from a few days’ vacation in Baltimore, with our son Ian. Aside from the delicious blue crabs, her life-changing hot & spicy chocolate gelato, and the totally satisfying U2 Imax movie, she was most vocal about…
Design Farts, Mad fold-ins and interactive nostalgia
Thanks again to the good folks over at Very Short List for opening my eyes to some great material. They’ve pointed out an interactive feature by, of all people, the New York Times. Not surprising for anyone who has already enjoyed their site, all the free content, but also the nice streamlined interactive featurettes frequently…
Clever, elegant and useful design on wine label
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…
Print versus online media: if Nelson says it’s true…
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…
Father of the Year and Digital Video
At this point in the age of YouTube, it’s not that a big of a deal when some hack makes a “look at me” video and foists it upon the world, only to have it wind up in the same box of rocks as the robo-dancing teens and the puppy-vs-kitten smackdowns. But when that hack…
Damn me, because this book cover makes me chuckle.
[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…
A well-balanced information diet includes print
I get emails [forwarded to me] all the time from my dad about the “good old days” and “old-fashioned values,” about the price of bread in the 50′s and how one wouldn’t dare be anything but fully compliant with authority figures, from pointer-wielding schoolmarm to uniformed milkman. And with no television to hypnotize us (let…
Your life, in only six words?
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…
Wouldn’t you wuv to Wovel with me?
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…
