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Category: Startup
Business Models & Grandpa’s Garage
IMG_1555-2Surfing the Edge of Chaos Picture a game of Jenga, as someone removes a piece that causes the stack to teeter, and that moment of potential energy is maxed out… There’s a loose structure there, gravity is holding it all in place – but its surfing the edge of chaos. One of the problems that… Read more
Logos, Fonts & Graphics
Logo01_BarnMuch like the quests for everything else, the path starts about 20 steps before I assumed it did. Design is design is design… so that part never changes Of course as a designer, we make pretty horrible clients, unless you come to terms with the idea that for your personal graphics – everything is in… Read more
Ahh, the memory …
The first step that I was going to undertake in my newly forced liberation from the firm – was to FINALLY reorganize terabytes of data from my 25 years in this profession… Until recently – this treasure trove of historical data had been spread across multiple drives. Most of these drives either became too small,… Read more
Practice, Practice, Practice – Part II
Continued… basically, I shared that – so that I could share this. I hope you can forgive the long-winded narrative explanation of the ideas. Production Crunch I think (and I might be wrong) but the elegantly rendered pretty pictures, may have gotten us into trouble as designers. Yes, I know what I said, and I’m… Read more
Why Am I Here?
Starting with Why Stepping back from the philosophical and ponderous nature of that question to explore the pragmatic, I suppose I owe you all an explanation… Why is it that I’m here? What’s the point of the musings? Well, the overall intent of putting this out into the world is to engage anyone who’s game,… Read more
What’s in a Name?
Yes folks – a Shakespearian reference right out of the gate. As with many other things in this life, the first question tends to be “What the hell do we call it?” I mean just look at the guys that named all the birds… I can’t imagine what that was like. I’ve agonized for years in… Read more
Press Play
Well, we begin… After wrestling with the common questions in the common themes: Shakespearian: What’s in a name? Etherial: Why am I here? Introverted: What is it that I have to offer the outside world that no one else does? Extroverted: Given the propensity for the aforementioned introversion, and previous sporadic starts/stops in the realm… Read more