Watching the Super Bowl, I just heard Al Michaels make a comment about Chad Ocho-Jerko — that up til this year, his career has been “all headlines,” and that this year it’s been “agate type.” Now, being 1. A student of typography, and 2. Old, I knew what he meant, but isn’t that expression rapidly fading . . . → Read More: Al Michaels is showing his age
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The 60s were truly the era of “too much is never enough,” even when it comes to labeling. My question is why Bruce’s name tag is higher than Dick’s. Is it just because he’s taller? Was he leaping straight into the tag and getting paper cuts on his face? Which pole is . . . → Read More: Holy excess, Batman! A couple of months ago I mentioned the dubious practice of crowdsourcing; on a related note, there is the sphere of prefab logos being sold for a set price. As Jeff Fisher has documented, many of these designs are ripoffs or barely modified versions of original work done for others. Brandstack was one of these companies . . . → Read More: You get what you pay for (redux) When I read articles about the debate over whether or not cursive handwriting should still be taught, I can’t believe anyone doubts its value. The memory of my teachers correcting my Palmer Method exercises still stand out in my mind – telling me to open up my loops and take more time with my lowercase ‘z’ . . . → Read More: I (heart) Palmer As a professional designer, I try not to do work “on spec” much anymore. Spec work is work done for a client who may or may not hire you, based on your initial offerings. I did it when I was a student and I thought anything would be a portfolio-building opportunity, even if I was never . . . → Read More: You get what you pay for Just went to look at Jon Hunstman’s site, as he launched his presidential bid today. What’s the first thing you see? A Flash movie! I’m guessing Jon’s advisor for these matters is over 60, and not working in the web design field anymore — nobody who cares about getting traffic delays people with an annoying Flash. . . . → Read More: Design police blotter, Presidential edition I only set up a feed reader for myself a few months ago (welcome to five years ago, right?), but one of the things I initially feared was that I was setting myself up for an isolation bubble, where I’d only see things I expected. Nice, safe, thought-provoking but still predictable things. Then today I saw something . . . → Read More: I still can’t figure this out It’s the whole culture of sports that applauds criminality; and I say that as a sports fan. Why do I bring this up? Since baseball season has started, the radio broadcasts have been promoting the TV network that carries the Indians games, SportsTime Ohio. Two of STO’s call-in shows are “All Bets Are Off” with Bruce . . . → Read More: It’s not just the athletes If you woke up yesterday realizing it was a day past Tax Day, you have another day to file – at least that’s the case for your federal and state taxes. Our city taxes were still due on April 15, and since those were the most difficult, they were the last ones done. Even the payroll . . . → Read More: Where does the money go? Since we’re already a quarter of the way into the year before a presidential election year, campaign season is gearing up! I know, I know, it never really ends these days. But I don’t actually want to talk about politics — I’m a designer, and I ran across these two sites that started me wondering, how important . . . → Read More: Design police blotter |
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