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September 25th, 2008
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Why Typography Matters

Noone ever wants to be the one that makes this mistake.

My non-graphic designer friends laugh at me when I mention typography – the study of type. They think it’s ridiculous. I thought it was ridiculous as well, when I was in college and saw that there were two required typography courses that I had to [...]

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September 11th, 2008
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Grandaddy

My friends are probably about sick of me talking about this band. But I recently discovered ‘Grandaddy’, a great band with a not so great name that broke up about two years ago. They put out five albums during their fifteen years together, and four of them are solid, in my opinion. They had a [...]

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September 3rd, 2008
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Relaunching of the Website

I‘ve been saying I was going to do this for almost a year. Finally, I have gotten around to setting up a functional, expandable, and community-inclusive website for myself. It’s about time. I am so indecisive when it comes to designing for myself that it is absolutely ridiculous. This layout was design number 18. And [...]

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September 3rd, 2008
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Permanent Press

A few days ago, I was flipping through my latest issue of HOW magazine and saw an ad for a Photoshop plugin called Permanent Press. I looked it up and it turned out that this thing did exactly what I had been trying to accomplish in Photoshop for about the past year – make things [...]

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September 2nd, 2008
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One Awesome Camera

Anyone with any interest in photography has probably heard about the new Nikon D90 which, for the price, is one awesome little camera. It not only shoots incredible pictures, but it can film in HD. The price point is $1000 which, as cameras go, not bad. It makes me want to pick up one of [...]

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