Objectified.

I watched it last night. (Website Here) It was great! Of course, I liked Helvetica and I’m looking forward to Urbanized, the final film in Gary Hustwit’s “Design Trilogy.” Inspiring. Depressing. I always have those two reactions when I watch “design” films. I see people who are so truly passionate about what they do. I [...]

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Ad Series: Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra

Newspaper Advertising Design is an interesting profession; I’ve been at it for over 6 years now. In my experience, the majority of advertisers just want to be comfortable with their ad designs. They want the tried and true, even if it dates back to 1947, in design terms. For the most part, I understand their [...]

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Sunday Notes.

Today in church, Doug spoke on John 18:28-19:16. Not that these are exceptionally cool notes, design wise, they do sum up things nicely. Some of the highlights of the message are: Jesus was rejected by both the political establishment and the religious establishment. It was essential to His purpose here on earth. Without being rejected [...]

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A Simple Wallpaper.

If you haven’t picked up on it from my current blog theme, I’ll clue you in on something. . . I like simple things. Simple design is one of them. The other day, I stumbled across this desktop wallpaper over at Interfacelift. Simple. I like it. Something was missing though. Simple addition of our family [...]

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Greeting…s… Cards

When you are a graphic designer, why settle for a card designed by someone else? My brother and sister-in-law just celebrated their first wedding anniversary this May 2. My wife and I needed a card so I jumped onto one of my favorite stock photo sites, Stock Xchng, to look for a photo to use. [...]

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Ehrlich Motors Logo

This is one of many logos I’ve done for Ehrlich Motors. I’m mostly posting this to further test this WP theme. I will work on adding the series of logos I have created for Ehrlich Motors/Subaru in the 6 years I have worked for The Greeley Tribune/Northern Colorado Communications. Logo property of Ehrlich Motors © [...]

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Got Themes?

I do. I don’t like any of them. Well, that’s not entirely true. The current theme from Site5 is okay, and it allows for a little customization from someone like me who doesn’t know .php. But it’s not my Theme. I’ve downloaded Thematic, which is pretty outstanding as a starting point, but that’s just it… [...]

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