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a moment to love hillary

In design, personal, politics, washington dc on 9 June 2008 with 1 comment

After a quick weekend jaunt down to Disneyland, I’m catching up on some web work, tomato alerts and the presidential race.
The reaction to Hillary’s speech last Tuesday further proved to me that most of the talking political heads had a vested self-interest in perpetuating the ongoing Clinton/Obama battle that was paying their bills. Even though […]

my really expensive book/film/art club

In business, design, grad school, personal on 25 May 2008 with no comments

I just got my summer DMBA reading/watching/sketching list from Nathan. For years I’ve been taking about getting folks together to watch and discuss films… now it looks like it might just happen with my future classmates. We will join an online community sometime this week and hopefully begin to get to know each other online, […]

i’m going to grad school

In design, grad school, personal on 8 April 2008 with 2 comments

A couple of weeks ago I had on of my happiest days… finding out I was accepted into graduate school just before Leah and I went to our favorite restaurant to celebrate our new apartment and one year together.

Here’s my signed letter of intent… I love the big GRADUATE stamp on the side of the […]

design crush: chip kidd experiments with form & content.

In design on 11 March 2008 with 1 comment

Thanks to Paige for the tip-off to Chip’s new video, and for introducing me to Chip at Comic-Con two years ago… Where I later, like a stark-struck fool, tracked down Chip’s table signing to get his imprint on Book One.
If you don’t know Chip, you no doubt know his work. He’s the guru of book […]

this american life: testosterone and public property

In design, education, queer, radio, washington dc on 7 March 2008 with 1 comment

This American Life is almost always engaging, if not brilliant…but here are two recent highlights:
Episode 220: Testosterone, rerun Feb 22. Check out Act Two’s interview with an FTM dicussing the transition of his viewpoint after injecting T.
Episode 350: Human Resources, aired last weekend. Act One on the New York Public Schools’ purgatory for teachers is […]

three typeset maps of Manhattan.

In design, inspiration on 7 March 2008 with no comments

Checking out new blogging software the other day I bumped into the work of Craig Ward. I followed some links to his inspiring site, Words Are Pictures, where I found his Alphabet Cities series and this adaptation of Manhattan (center image). Which reminded me of Jenny Beorkrem’s series sold at Ork Posters (left image). I […]