Found a course on typography today from looking at the Open Courseware finder. If you want to take a class on typography, check this out first, it’s full of resourses. In fact, all the links could be bottled up and saved and that would be most of the course anyway. Hmm, I think I’ll do […]

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My InDesign CS2 Series is online. Mike Smick InDesign CS2 Atomic Learning.

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check out this flash animation about the personality of color.

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I discovered a new website that is partitially run by my co-author Pariah Burke. He writes madly. Really cranking out the articles from his deep pool of knowledge of the creative industry.  Anyone interested in graphics, publishing, web technologies should be interested in this site. Check out Designorati.

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I opened the front screen door to my house and a package flipped out onto the porch. It has arrived. I’m not sure when my book will actually be in stores at this point, but getting this early copy was a nice surprise today. When I was little, the thought of having my own […]

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Oh and guess what I bought this weekend? I love it when I find something that is just perfectly made. Superstars have really withstood the test of time. It’s kind of cool to see that you can take the same shoe and reinvent it hundreds of ways and still find a way to appeal to […]

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I’ve been getting a lot of inspiration from icons lately. I see really well done icons all over the place. I wonder how long people work at some of them. Each time I try to make an icon, it doesn’t seem to go right.
I made a little boombox icon here.
Please do not […]

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I find myself on a lot of friday nights just browsing the web for new sites, design tips, free software and tutorials. I need to start posting some of the gems I find in my journal here. I’ll start with this one.
Before and After Magazine is one of those things that makes me want to […]

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