Sunshocked

Even though I’m a designer for a progressive, environmental non-profit by day, I still feel like there must be more I can do with my repertoire of typographical theory and color sense. Any recommendations?

I talk to my mom every Sunday afternoon (or try to). This last Sunday we discussed how something that seems insignificant to a parent can have a remarkable effect on a child. Here are three things my mom did for me that she may not even remember.

Excuse me if it seems disingenuous to me to spend decades producing bland, cheaply made products and then complain that your corporate branding has been subverted by your customers to describe something bland and cheap.

It seems that a formula of no sleep and immoderate drinking, mixed with handshaking and strangers, and topped with being caught in not one but two thunderstorms last week has left me quite ill.

Dan Rather, best known for his 44 years as reporter and eventually anchorman for CBS News, was today’s keynote speaker at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. He had a few things to say about the blogging, the internet, and the state of journalism in this country.

Is it just me, or does the entire air travel industry run on hot air? And I mean more than the stuff thats rammed through super-heated jets in order to keep the planes in the air.

My old design office had a saying: “after the blast.” It described the days where society has crumbled and designers were no longer valued for their newly irrelevant skills. We all had to have new jobs, after the blast.

I was excited by learning inductive logic for the first time. Given the details of a certain situation, what can be induced to apply to any subsequent instance? While this may pertain to a discrete reality, I’ve recently come to believe that this process is the core of fantasy, as well.