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A Holiday Card Two Years in the Making

January 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Aaaand, I’m back! Well, that was a nice little vacation, so now that the holidays are over and (most) everyone received their card from me, I can finally post about them without spoiling the surprise. I may be going about this a little backwards, but am going to post the final product today and the […]

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Tags: Design Life · Illustration · New Work · Typography · Updates

Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Holiday Spirit

December 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Well, obviously I’m a day late, but it’s for a good cause: I printed the second to last screen on my Christmas cards last night (and finished tonight!). A post about them will be coming once they’re all mailed out (don’t want to ruin the surprise!).
But on to this week’s links: for the past several […]

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Tags: Animation · Illustration · Inspiration

Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Printmaking in Small Spaces

December 11th, 2008 · 6 Comments

So I had a lot of fun things that popped up in my feed this past week, but thought I’d share some resources instead. You see, I’m getting ready to print my Christmas cards this Sunday, so I thought it might be nice to share a bit on how I’m going to do it before […]

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Tags: Design Life · Inspiration · Letterpress/Printmaking

Pushing Daisies: Why You Should Watch and How You Can Help Save It

December 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It’s not often that something comes along on TV that really stands out as something Different in terms of storyline, art direction, and narration; and still manages to win awards (nominated for 12 Emmy’s) and critical acclaim in addition to my Official Seal of Approval. So when Tricia of Stickers and Donuts let me know […]

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Tags: Design Life · Inspiration

Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Advent is Upon Us!

December 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’m not gunna lie: I felt a little panicky when I got back from vacation and had 850+ unread posts in my feedreader this week. Ack! I ended up marking-all-as-read to a lot of them just to help my sanity. Not that it has any bearing on today’s links because I’ve been gearing up for […]

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Tags: Design Life · Product Design · Typography

Currently Loving: Nate’s Reichsbanknote Collection

December 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Whew! What an amazing vacation! I had some time to finish nearly all of my personal projects in progress–some of which I’ll be blogging about soon–as well as time for family fun and a stint at jury duty (not all that fun to tell you the truth…). But now I’m back and back to posting!
I […]

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Tags: Inspiration · Typography

Currently Reading: Designer’s Review of Books

November 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

I thought about waiting to post this on the next Weekly Reader, but thought “what the heck? I may as well post it now.” So I am. Designer’s Review of Books is currently cropping up all over the design blogs that I read and for good reason. Andy Polaine noticed a general lack in blogs […]

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Tags: Design Life · Inspiration

Jen Alger Portfolio Updates

November 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

My good friend, Jen, just let me know that she finished updating her Portfolio Blog this week. Jen’s awesome to collaborate with: we partnered on a lot of projects while working together (including the below project for Hallmark that I posted about several months ago). In any case, she’s now a full-time mom, but still […]

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Tags: Design · Inspiration

Trend Watch: 3D is Back

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments

With the debut of Disney’s Bolt tomorrow, 3D movies are seeing a return to the Silver Screen. Although technically, the trend started this past summer, Bolt marks the beginning of Disney’s digital 3D releases for its animated films. A while back, I read an article in Variety stating that Pixar was planning to do the […]

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Tags: Animation · Inspiration

Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Eye Candy

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Although the sites are all fairly well-known, I thought I’d take a different approach this week and instead share several blogs rather than fun things that turned up in my reader. Of course, the blogrolls to the right have just a handful of the many I’m currently reading, but the ones I’m sharing below stand […]

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Tags: Inspiration