Archive for August, 2006
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
Stuck for inspiration? Just look around you.
My good friend Mike Mackenzie, who does motion graphics for video and TV (and he’s completely BRILLIANT at it), told me a great story about inspiration the other day when I was feeling uninspired.
He was in art school, and they gave the class an assignment to do a “get out the vote” poster. Everyone else [...]
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
Conversations on Green Design: Getting Started
Well, it seems that I’ve happily reached that point in my career where other designers are coming to me asking for advice. Although I get my fair share of the “do you have advice for a new designer looking to get work in this field” questions, the larger portion of questions/fan mail (yes, one person [...]
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Getting Rid of the Clutter? Don’t Throw it Out – Throw it to Throwplace.
While poking around re-nourish the other day, I noticed a write-up on Throwplace, a site designed to keep folks’ clutter from going into the landfill by allowing registered users to offer up their pre-loved (read: discarded) belongings to other folks willing to take it off their hands. A description from the Re-Nourish site gives an [...]
