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Archive for "November, 2006"
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Nov 2006 30
Web 2.0 Logos
Update:
Okay, so this is what it feels like to have egg on your face. Serves me right for not doing a little more to track the posting back to the source (or as close to it as you can reasonably backtrack). Ferchristssakes! Thanks Joe for pointin… -
Nov 2006 28
In pursuit of creative happiness: some thoughts about writing
Writing has always been a fun little distraction for me; it has been a distraction in the sense that I have focused so much of my time and energy into honing my skills as a designer that anything outside of that is a temporary reprise. Needless t…
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Nov 2006 27
Influences: Terry Brooks
Some of you may know Terry Brooks for his long running Shannara saga and others of you might know him from his work on The Word/Void trilogy and Landover series. For those of you who do not, Terry Brooks began his writing career with the publica…
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Nov 2006 24
Digital Art & Illustration 02: Focus on Linda Bergkvist
There is an underlying mythology to Linda Bergkvist’s work that is quite apparent when you troll through her galleries. It is a spark of wonder, horror, curiosity or cold indifference that pulls you into each of her pieces. Her paint…
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Nov 2006 21
Working with and creating your own Web 2.0 Color palettes
It is one thing to hand out a color palette and say “run with it!” It is another thing altogether, to actually know what to do with it. So, in response to that particular endeavor and as a follow up to my “Getting emo with colo…
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Nov 2006 17
Digital Art & Illustration 01: Focus on Marc Burnet
I draw my inspiration for both writing and design from a number of different sources on and offline. One thing I particularly enjoy is CG art; I used to paint a lot (Oils, Acrylics, Gouache, etc.), and it was a great way to exorcise some of the id…
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Nov 2006 16
Getting emo with color
The use or misuse of color is an important factor in any design. Whether the application for color is for print, screen, broadcast etc., it is important for designers to understand what color is and how we respond to it. I am not about to write a…
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Nov 2006 15
Zoundry – the desktop editor for blog authors
One of the great things I liked about my previous sites were the desktop tools that I developed to handle some of the typical tasks like posting news and updating articles. Most of those applications were developed in VB6 and took advantage o…
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Nov 2006 15
American Fear Clothing
You still see it when you walk down the street or ride the bus in the morning or even in the occasional photo in Time magazine – you know, those guys (and the occasional “ladies”) with the burnt-out 80′s rocker-wann…
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Nov 2006 14
It’s alive!
Well, seeing as this is my first real entry into my new (read: first) blog, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight some of the influences that led me to starting a blog of my own. My wife and I used to run a design inspiration site a while ba…
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Nov 2006 9
In Development
Big thanks to Jon Snook for hooking me up with some web space! As you can probably tell this site is undergoing development and will be in various states of disarray until I can work out the little bugs that crop up from porting from my local web-…
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Nov 2006 9
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