The Undervaluation of Creativity
A few years ago there was a Craigslist post ranting about the prevalence of Craigslist postings seeking design or illustration work for free, thinking that such work is worth little or nothing. It’s a...
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Twee: A PostSecret Tale
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like every other Tumblr blog consists of:Quotes talking about love, loss, love lost, or how you could conquer the world if you just put your mind to it.Desaturated and...
View ArticleMy precious artistic feelings
There’s a neat discussion going on in this thread about providing feedback on a demo CD that the poster’s significant other just recorded: how do you tell them you don’t totally love their creative...
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Hope-nope-dope-pope
I haven’t updated in the past little while because I’ve been:1. Finishing up exams 2. Out of town on the precious week of vacation I had before starting work 3. Moving, and 4. Starting work.As a...
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Illustrations by Francis Kmiecik
This guy‘s ilustration portfolio is incredible.(While I’m totally jealous that his name is so Google-able, imagine the pain of trying to get people to spell it correctly.)via.
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Vintage Advertising
My personal design style is pretty minimalist; I prefer clean and streamlined over cluttered and busy. To that end I love a lot of the ads and logos I see on design blogs – modern advertisement has...
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September batch of art
I’ve had more time to draw recently, which is awesome.This is what Hermione would be like if she were a dude.Me? Arrogant? No way.One of my coworkers.Some more sketches while I was really bored.
View ArticleWriting out longhand
An article called “How to Steal Like an Artist” went around a while back. I’ve had it saved for a while, and I just want to highlight what he says about writing things out longhand:I think the more...
View ArticleCoda, by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury, on including minorities in works of art for the sake of including them:But, for now, the university wrote back that they hardly dared do my play—it had no women in it! And the ERA ladies...
View ArticleType nerdery
Getting up in arms about Comic Sans is so 2001. If you have vehement opinions about why you prefer Georgia over Palatino Linotype, and why Calibri is barely an improvement over that most sacriligious...
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