Four years ago from yesterday was the first spudart blog post. Happy four years old! 😀 *streamers* The first blog post was Long live long tables. Ah yes the long table Host to family renunions Setting for the Last Supper Forum for panel discussions Horizon of Bruce Wayne meals Territory of high school lunches Location …
Egg Muffins are so much better than they are not wrapped in foil and sit. Tribune Tower’s cafeteria lets their egg muffins sit out, so they can breath. Next door, the Equitable Building’s cafeteria puts their egg muffins in foil and they choke and suffer. They get all MOIST and nasty and all mushed up. …
The phrase “how are you?” is said more as a greeting instead of an actual question. It always surprises me how many people ask a question and then just keep on walking and don’t even bother to hear your response. It’s nice that they ask, it shows a bit of compassion. It makes me wonder …
The McDonalds in downtown Chicago on Michigan Ave right behind the Wrigley Building is store #4444. I just saw this on my receipt. Numbers like this make me happy.
Here is the most complete list you will ever find for Design Competitions, Awards, and Deadlines. Over 56 competitions to make you happy (or sad). Here’s the link for the full list: https://www.spudart.org/blog/2005-design-competitions-awards-deadlines/If you have any corrections or extra competitions, please just leave a comment and I’ll add it to the list. (The comments box …
I’m designing a brochure for KRT Campus, and I was looking for some dramatic images. Normally, you’d do a search for: drama, dramatic, powerful, happy, sad, joyful, and all those other words in the thesaurus. But here’s a trick… look for the verbs that play out those adjectives. The two best ones were: cry and …
If you are using a new version of DropZip (i’ve been using 8.0)… Let’s say you compress a bunch of files with fonts in it. When you go to uncompress the files, the fonts will be zero k. But if you use an older version of DropZip (i’ve got 5.5)… the fonts will not become …
About once every month, the Ravenswood for Peace stands outside the Western Brown Line stop in the morning giving handouts concerning current political situations. The women are nice older ladies with gray hair that are always so happy to spreading their political views–of which I mostly agree on. Although today’s handout entitled “The Federal Budget …
Every Friday at work, we have New Toy Friday. This Friday was three-foot long sticks of gum bought at the dollar store. The challenge was to see if one could fit an ENTIRE piece of yardstick gum into his/her mouth at once. THE SPECS: * THREE feet of gum. * 24 servings in one package. …
Today is the birthday of Mr. T. (May 21, 1952) Happy Birthday, foo!
The Tribune Tower is putting up one of those big window night signs for the Chicago Cubs being in the National League Playoffs. The Tribune Company owns the Cubs, so it’s about time that they finally do this. I work on the 14th floor of the Tribune Tower, and today at 11:30am, they came around …
Tribune Tower transforms into a Chicago Cubs Sign Read More »
