Flash is the new Comic Sans.
Freelance graphic and web designer, avid photographer and snowboarder whenever I get the chance.
This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done.- Steve Jobs, talking about the tablet rumored to be introduced this week, as reported by TechCrunch.
Wrote a little post about what I think the Apple Tablet could look like.
I’ve figured it out. The input method for Apple’s new tablet will be chopsticks. That would explain the “steep learning curve” we’ve all been hearing about.
*Props to Tim Van Damme for the original tablet illustration.
Microsoft keynotes are totally more fun than Apple keynotes. We don’t even have to spend any money afterwards!- @johnrust after CES 2010
Good content: It's out there... you just have to find it.
In this internet age, it is so easy to create content that just about everyone does it. Over 100,000 iPhone apps in the App Store, WordPress themes available from hundreds of different sites, and the “Links Lists” type blogs that seem to be growing in number every day. Is this really a good thing?
Quality over quantity.
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” -Steve Jobs
Good content takes time - there is no way around it. Poor content does not. I have great respect for bloggers like Dustin Curtis or Jason Santa Maria that put a lot of time into every article. Granted, they don’t crank out 7 articles a day, but when they do post a new article, it will be worth reading. On the other hand, if you do a Google search for “Graphic design blog” you will get about 49,800,000 results. Many of these blogs post things like “Top 100 logo design tutorials” and then have a list of links to other people’s content. This is a way to appear to be an expert on almost any topic, even if you have no proficiency in this area. When you are reading one of these posts, you have no way of knowing the quality or accuracy of the posts they are linking to. When they link to poor quality content, it has a way of giving you a bad taste for that blog.
This lack of quality is also very evident in the iPhone App Store. The number of poorly designed and/or implemented apps that are in the App Store is astounding. Apple has tried to address this issue, first by making the SDK proprietary and now by requiring each app to be approved by a human before it was listed on the store. Both of these have had limited success - Not being able to develop apps at all made people mad, but having to wait to have your app approved wasn’t much better. Good apps have been rejected without much explanation, bad apps have slipped through and the process has been a pretty big pain for devs overall. On the other hand, there are many, many well designed and beautiful apps out there as well, proving that good designers and coders still do exist.
So, good content is out there, but you have to find it. No matter how many shoddy imitations there are, there will always be room for original, well thought out articles, themes and apps. Have an answer to this problem or other comments? I’d love to hear you thoughts.
Ask me anything.
Just turned on the new Tumblr “Ask” feature to allow anyone to ask me a question. Fire away: I’ll respond to all sensible ones over the coming days.
Client: “You’re fired.”
Me: “Why?”
Client: “You printed it upside-down.”
Me: “You’re holding the board upside-down.
Client: We need to use WeirdoFont on our website.- Clients From Hell
Me: That’s not possible, the font is not a common web font.
Client: Nothing is impossible! It’s just a question of time and money.
Me: Well, OK, I’ll travel around the world and install the font on all internet-connected computers, if you can get the copyright clearance for the font.
Client: That’s more like it! You’ll be ready for the launch next month?
Check out this Rotational Ambigram inspired by John Langdon. These ambigrams read the same upside-down as they do right-side up. Click the image to see the rotating version.
I found this on twitter recently. Best Christmas prank ever!
“Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever.Great stories. But two things made me take it down.
First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.
Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn’t realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn’t take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard.”
My rates are as follows:- Classic Autobody Sign
$50/hour
$75/hour if you watch
$100/hour if you help
Latin? Where'd ya learn that?
Working on an ad for a client, used Lorem ipsum for filler text:
Client: Got the ad, love it, but what does that text say?
Me: It’s Latin for “This is filler text”
Client: Where did you learn latin?
Windows is to operating systems what the mullet is to haircuts.- Andrea Austoni (via editablemess)
