Ideas

I discovered these fashion trend discussions down at the Outdoor Retailer show a few years ago and have gone to them now every show for inspiration to my graphic design work. They usually center around a few inspiring future stories like space exploration, or the Olympics, and create an entire look complete with colors, fabrics, [...]

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Summer IPA Label Tests

July 26, 2012

Im kind of hitting my limit here trying to realize this concept. Lot’s of grilled meats and the killer heat here in Wyoming serve as the inspiration for this summer beer label. I would love to be able to actually burn the words IPA onto the label. Any ideas?

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Are QR codes are dead? I have not heard anyone tell me a good QR code story–although I have a good one involving the DC Metro and Where’s Waldo. What are some ways to breathe some real life into these little black and white boxes? So every one is getting smart phones. So every business [...]

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Harvest Vs Fresh Books While Fresh Books might have a few more features and seem a bit more intuitive, Harvest ended up being the way to go for my freelance design business because it allows for unlimited clients at the base price (~12/month). Fresh Books cuts you off after 25 clients and then charges you [...]

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After about a year of dilly-dallying, thinking, poking, and cataloging I have finally launched mortarandpencil.com. The project began when I started noticing all these ad-hoc games, riddles, and contests were happening all over the web from 4chan, Reddit, and Facebook. It was inspiring and funny to see the way people would submit variations to games [...]

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Just got back from a rock & roll bar mitzvah in Denver, Colorado, and I had time to get two new episodes of the Thinking and Driving series up. Zombies and Solar Flares (Episode 5) – An NPR talk on solar flares taking out our power grid got me thinking about viral videos for the [...]

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