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Entries from August 2008

Currently Listening to: The Animation Podcast

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been meaning to post this for a long time, but since seeing WALL•E I figured now was the time. Back in 2005, I came across The Animation Podcast via Drawn!, but being the busy college student I was, I only listened to a few episodes. At the beginning of this summer, I rediscovered it […]

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Tags: Animation · Design Life · Inspiration

Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Wish List

August 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Well, this was an unusual week: usually I find several items to share that all relate to each other. This week, I had a hard time categorizing them. So I guess I’ll just have to group things the best I can:
Adding these to my wish list:

Neubau Berlin has put both of their popular books in one […]

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Tags: Book Design · Illustration · Inspiration · Letterpress/Printmaking · Product Design · Typography

WALL•E: Best Movie of the Summer

August 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m going to preface this post by admitting that I haven’t seen a lot of the movies out this summer, and I am a huge animation buff…so perhaps I’m biased in declaring this the Best Movie. A close second for me would be The Dark Knight (I love super-hero movies of all sorts). While that […]

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Tags: Animation · Inspiration

The Experience Conundrum

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

I just wanted to take a quick lunch moment to respond to Armin’s post over at Speak Up today about the risks in hiring young designers versus the need to have experience in order to gain experience. Any recent graduate in any field can tell you about the rejection letters they can wallpaper rooms with […]

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Tags: Design Life

Wednesday’s Weekly Reader

August 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Another week’s worth of great stuff on the web, but first an Fantasy Olympics update: it seems that despite a good start, Austria has slipped to the bottom. Alas!
Re-visiting the Orphan Works Bill debate:
I first posted about this issue here and here, and now Etsy’s Storque puts the debate up to their readers. 
 Great Resources:

 If you’re like me and […]

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Tags: Animation · Book Design · Illustration · Inspiration · Typography · Web Design

Found: Antique Czech Typography

August 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

This past month, my family went up to Nebraska for a family reunion. Although I’ve shared the German-love in past posts, I’m actually more Czech than German. The region of Nebraska that both sides of my family are from was heavily settled by Czechs during the late 1800’s, and they brought not only their language, […]

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Tags: Inspiration · Typography

Weekly Reader: Wednesday Links

August 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I’m a little behind on posting inspiration, so I thought that I would try and make a regular habit of posting links in a weekly post rather than posting them willy-nilly as they come up in my feed-reader. It’s hard to narrow down all of the items I’ve noted lately, but figure this is a […]

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Tags: Book Design · Inspiration · Letterpress/Printmaking

An Elegant Affair

August 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

This past weekend I went to the wedding of one of my friend’s: it was a gorgeous affair from the dress to the ceremony, and from the reception to the cake. Jen and I were honored to be asked to help out with designing some things for the wedding:

Above is the monogrammed sticker I designed for […]

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Tags: Design · New Work

Consorting with the Enemy…or, Learning to Embrace PowerPoint

August 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Designers hate PowerPoint: it’s a well-established fact. In fact, I would say that designers just generally hate MS Office. It’s clumsy, auto-corrects everything you don’t want it to, and hard to control. A much better presentation platform would be presenting a PDF in Acrobat. Everyone has Reader, it looks sleek, gives you more control over […]

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Tags: Design · Design Life

Featured on iLT

August 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

In this whirlwind of a week, I almost forgot to mention that my Stained Glass Typography post was a featured link on I Love Typography’s Sunday Type this past week. Thanks Johno! And I’ve finally gotten around to updating my links: you can check them out on the bottom of the far right.
Cheers! and Happy Friday!

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Tags: Updates