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It was April 9, 2008. I had just turned 22, I was 2 weeks from graduating college, my brother was getting married in a few months, I didn’t have a place to live nearby, I was driving a bitchin 1991 Honda Prelude, and I was parked out in front of Rockharbor Church. My palms were really sweaty, and I sat there a few minutes before I had to go inside trying to process the amount of change that...

Dec 19th

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Never Beyond: People of the Second Chance Poster...

It’s pretty rare when you get to jump on a project that 1. Lets you work with great people and 2. Lets you be part of the process of dreaming up something really special. Recently, I was fortunate enough to be given one of those opportunities. Mike Foster is a talented author, speaker, all around good guy, and one of the co-founders of a great community called People of the Second...

Sep 19th

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Rush Job

Let’s start this off honestly… Quick turn arounds are something we ALL have to deal with. All industries, all positions…its to the workplace as gravity is to science. Now that that’s out of the way, lets begin. If you’re anything like me, there is part of you that gets a little buzz by the thrill of a rush job. The pressure is a challenge waiting to be conquered,...

Sep 15th

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On Education

I started teaching for my second semester this week. I never really considered myself the teacher type, nor would I consider myself an expert in design (the subject I’m teaching). I had a grand elusion of my class resembling that of Robyn Williams’ in “Dead Poets Society”, but much to my dismay, it wasn’t. It wasn’t bad, it just didn’t live up to the...

Sep 12th

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I'm Back...

Took a long break from this thing, but am back and ready to jot down more miscellaneous, hopefully interesting insights.

Sep 12th

Feb 21st

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Jan 5th

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OH SO TRUE

Heres to having a bit more respect for myself and my profession in 2011. via quipsologies

Jan 4th

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Dec 17th

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Oct 26th

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POW!

We are on the brink of launching a new site for rockharbor, so I came up with this little humdinger to usher it in. Enjoy. ps. The new site launches later this week. I will post more about this later.

Oct 12th

Sep 27th

Icons & wood

Sep 22nd

Watch

I just like this a lot. via kitsunenoir

Sep 14th

Watch

This might just be the inspiration I need.

Sep 13th

ICONS

Half way through making a massive series of icons. Fun stuff.

Aug 27th

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Watch

Pardon the lack of posts as of late. Will try to be better. Hopefully this fascinating video will appease you till the next post.

Aug 24th

Annual Report

Pardon the lack of posts. Have been busy with projects and have been unable to blog as much as I would like. Anyway, here are some snapshots of a recent RH project.

Jul 27th

For the kids

A snapshot of some stuff for the summer.

Jun 14th

Jun 10th

In GOOD form

GOOD has done it again with these lovely illustrations about education illustration. (via design work life)

Jun 9th

He he ha ha...

A Serious Discussion « Thinking for a Living

May 30th

CARTOGRAPHY

A snapshot from a project I am working on. I must say, maps are pretty fun to make.

May 27th

LITTLE SNAPSHOT

Here are some elements I created for an infographic about college students. Drew some inspiration from Mikey Burton. Happy Monday.

May 17th

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Watch

I just might try to utilize this today with the help of teuxdeux.

May 13th

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May 4th

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I want to take a moment and introduce a designer whom you are probably already familiar with and just don’t know it. Paul Rand was an american designer, illustrator and painter from the mid 1930s thru 1996. Rand, best known for his corporate identities was the mastermind behind IBM, UPS, and ABC’s logos. He was also one of the innovators of the swiss style of graphic design (think...

May 3rd

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Watch

Great little video on denim, from a great blog about dressing like a grown up. via PUT THIS ON

Apr 29th

GOODIES

I posted a few new goodies on my site this weekend, and will be posting some recent projects very soon. Check it out here.

Apr 19th

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Apr 7th

BACK

Been a busy few weeks, but I am back to the blogging world and am excited to put some recent work up here. As most of you know Easter was celebrated yesterday & working at a church this means that lots of work goes into preparation. The great thing about where I work is that they see the importance in creating culturally relevant material that attract people other than your 70 year old...

Apr 6th

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HIATUS (temporary of course)

Well between moving, and this little thing I like to call Easter, life has gotten a bit busy. So, this means I will have less time to tend to this. Be back in a few weeks.

Mar 6th

“The freighting and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a...”

– ART & COPY film

Feb 27th

THINKING FOR A LIVING

Thinking for a living is a site that was just relaunched which features the thoughts and ethos of designers. It looks really inspiring and helpful and just thought that you should know know about it.

Feb 24th

A DAY LATE

This is a day late, but thought it needed to be recognized anyway. Thanks photoshop, for…well whatever it is you do. (via LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY)

Feb 21st

ON INSPIRATION

I’m fascinated by the idea of creativity. The fact that someone can, out of nothing, develop an idea, solution, something beautiful, something different than the norm, is quite honestly unbelievable. Its obviously more than just synapses firing in our brains, if that was the case then finding a formula to creativity would be far to easy and essentially render the whole process void. But...

Feb 16th

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

I know that not everyone in the world is a designer. This is a good thing. However, everyone in the world does work with color. This is also a good thing if done properly. I found this clever, well designed cheat sheet and thought “This is something everyone in the world should memorize.” So consider this my part in making the world a better, more color conscious place. Read it,...

Feb 15th

Feb 12th

Dangit Frank. You've done it again.

viafrank: C’mere. I want to tell you a secret. Something that might change how you see our profession, how you go about learning and how you perceive your position in it. Come closer. Closer, still. OK. Ready for this? OK. Here we go. Read More

Feb 12th

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BRANDING

I am working on a few branding projects and have been looking for some inspiration. I stumbled on this project a few times and thought that it was simply amazing. PTMK is a design collective based in Austin, who have done some great branding work.

Feb 3rd

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

I am speaking at my alma mater tonight about design. Here is the poster I made for it. If you are in the riverside area tonight at 7pm I would love to have you there.

Feb 2nd

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Jan 25th

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ON A POSITIVE NOTE

I know our world has a lot of problems, its just the reality we live in. But every once in a while you get to see glimpses of goodness where people buy into the idea of humanity as one and are willing to sacrifice for the sake of others. I have been really impressed with the support Haiti has been given. I know that the media has a strong pull to which disasters we learn about about, but with...

Jan 23rd

I WOULD RIDE THIS EVEN IN THE RAIN.

(via club soda)

Jan 20th

BECAUSE I REFUSE TO LET ADHD WIN

Frank Chimero wrote an amazing article (here) about how distractions can rob you of more than just time. It was so compelling that I decided to look up some ways I can be better about not giving in to the soft glow of mindless internet browsing, but first some thoughts. Essentially the following is true; the more time we spend exploring unnecessary things on facebook, craigslist, or blogs the...

Jan 18th

GREAT DISPLAY

A very cool window display. Don’t know what for, but looks amazing. (via Graphic-ExchanGE)

Jan 13th