Tag: Design

One of the reasons for low-voter turnout is that people just don’t know. You often hear “I don’t know who to vote for, because I don’t really know anything about them.” The Chicago Tribune does have some nice articles about…

What happens when you stack all the letters of the alphabet on top of each other. Read more about this at: https://www.spudart.org/blog/what-happens-when-you-stack-every-letter-alphabet-top-each-o/

Website for Tribune Media Services properties including Dick Tracy, Annie, Jumble, Boggle Brainbusters, and Brewster Rockit. I did the site architecture and graphic design. Homepage: %%2715_licensing_home_full.jpg” width=”735″ height=”583] Sample Subpage: %%2715_licensing_sub_full.jpg” width=”756″ height=”671]

I took all the letters from A through Z and piled them on top of each other with a little transparency so you can see through them. The beauty of the font comes out as the structure and repeated forms…

Glidden says there’s a new trendy color to follow. Golden Kiwi. As one of the color experts says, it’s a “sophisticated gold with a teeny bit of green in it.” There’s controversy over this color. Veteran color forecaster at Pantone,…

The image for MLB.com’s fantasy opening day features photos of cubs players in 1985 Topps baseball card frames. Ahhh yes. That was the year that my brother and I collected the most baseball cards from our youth. That design is…

Fashion in a “Blue” Mood for Spring 2006. Pantone released their spring 2006 colors. Source: “Blue Skies Ahead” on pantone.com Pantone also released a 24 page pdf with suggested color palettes by famous designers. Here’s a quick image with all…

When I design, I approach it as that I am playing. There are some designers that don’t like to say that they “play” when they design, because it gives the wrong impression that belittles what designers do. For example that…

This color palette of brown and light blue is really nice in the bathroom. (the source article called it “Rich Browns teamed with Aqua”) The key is the white toilet, white shower, and white furniture. The white really goes nicely…

Have you ever noticed how vector shapes in a pdf file tend to look bitmappy? This makes no sense, because vector shapes should be super smooth. Here we will get to the bottom of this problem. Here are the things…

The website for the book “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life,” an Amazon Top 10 book in 2005. This site was designed using PHP and MySQL, so the author could easily make updates to the site without knowing html. Readers can…

This is for the designers out there: Walking on the right side of the street is like being a part of right justified type. Walking on the left side of the street is like being a part of left justified…

One of my friends is a designing his first webpage, and he’s not a designer. He says he wants “some neat little animated buttons here and there just to get some movement on the page.” And I said, “oh dear.”…

Because it starts with an “A” it starts off the list of bookstores. Top of the list baby! I realized this while looking at a site I designed last year for Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.

There this site at http://thesurrealist.co.uk/joke where you can make a joke about anything. All you do is put in the topic and some keywords related to it, and pow! It’ll give you a bunch of jokes–although they are so bad!…

From the olympic site: “Neve”: she is a gentle, kind and elegant snowball; “Gliz”: he is a lively, playful ice cube. They are the two symbolic characters of the XX Olympic Winter Games. They complement each other and personify the…

There’s this site called Cassette Jam ’05 where there are over 170 different images of old cassette tape designs. Here’s three of the tapes on that site that I have used.

Back in September 2003 I posted about Armored vehicles the next SUV. Now it’s becoming much closer to reality. SYN US concept for secure urban parking and driving Detroit January 7, 2005 Somewhere between an armoured car and a sporty…

As promised in my previous post on dodgeballs, here’s my dodgeball and kickball’s team logo designed by artist Cef Grima.

United States coins have always featured protraits from the side. The new 2006 Jefferson nickel will be the first to have a front-facing portrait. Why have all the previous coins had profiles for the portraits? Here’s some thoughts: A) Coins…

After nearly 100 years of depicting presidents in somber profiles on the nation’s coins, the Mint is trying something different: The new nickel features Thomas Jefferson, facing forward, with the hint of a smile. The forward-looking 2006 nickel front was…

KRT Campus provides top-notch news, sports and entertainment content to college newspapers. When this project was first handed to us the copywriter, Maureen Quinlan, and I brainstormed different formats. Last year we did a traditional 3-fold brochure. We played around…

The 2005 Graphic Design USA annual has accepted two of my pieces for their 2005 American Graphic Design Awards! Here’s the two works: Brewster Rockit Sales Kit KRT Campus brochure/mailer Pretty good, considering these are the only two pieces that…

There’s this ultra cool LED watch at toykoflash.com called the B Version by Twelve 5-9. I’m trying to decide which color to get. Blue, Green, or Red? I want the funk!

This appears in the 2005 Graphic USA Design Annual. Tim Rickard sent Tribune Media Services a comic strip proposal for Brewster Rockit. TMS decided to take Brewster under an 8-week development deal to help improve the strip before syndicating it.…

Apple just re-geared their iPod line. The iPod photo is now the standard iPod. So all standard iPods now have a color screen that can display photos. Why buy them from Apple, when you can get them cheaper from Amazon?…

This nutcracker figure speaking out nuts is a neat idea. How about this for an extension… Write out some words on a piece of paper, draw a word balloon around it, cut it out. And then photograph the figure as…

Navy Pier is Chicago’s number one tourist destination with more than 8 million visitors annually. There are so many advantages to the pier structure. It’s by the lake where people can enjoy the water. Desintation for boat tours. Because how…

This is a very rough order of things that to look at when on a press check. While these are put into order, I usually don’t go through it like a list. It’s usually just all merged together and I…

“At Home with Marni Jameson” was a column syndicated by Tribune Media Services. This was an identity developed for the column. Fun strong font with a little bit of retro flair in the word “with” and little monopoly-esque style legs.…

While riding in my work’s elevator at the Tribune Tower, I couldn’t think of any other elevators that had the same button design. Have you ever seen the same elevator button design in two different buildings?