On Saturday, I stayed up all night working on a 24 hour comic with Miss Mary Bee! She wrote the words, I drew stuff! We holed up at the Comics Outpost for a full day of drawing, along with fellow 24hour participants Doctor Popular & Mike Hales. What is 24 hour comic day? put simply: 24 […]

Comicon is quickly approaching, and that means it’s time for me to order new business cards! Unfortunately, I am pressed for time, and my attempts aren’t turning out as I would like: close, but not quite there.… Fortunately, Moo.com just announced that they’re now offering full size business cards alongside their wildly successful mini cards. & they come […]

& the winner is:  BOTH OF US! That’s right guys, it’s a tie.  Voting happened both on this blog post, and on Aimee’s flickr page. And the tally was closed at 15 votes each. So who designed what?  As if it wasn’t obvious, the left design was mine: Detail shot here. and on the right was Aimee’s lovely design: This was a whole […]

flightskoolsociety.com and thisisstar.com go head to head in a helvetica-off. the challenge: using only Helvetica Black 72 point, 14 point, and 6 point, and color, create visual interest only using the dummy type “lorem ipsum” For the purposes of fairness, we will be voting blind. We’ll let you know tomorrow who designed what! vote in the comments […]

A couple days ago, while musing about Helvetica, I said the following: For all my Helvetica obsession, I have yet to make a successful design using it. Perhaps that would be a good challenge for me; to make a simple and excellent design using Helvetica. Yet, for any good challenge, one needs a worthy opponent… Any […]