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Cover Rejects

Today I was dig­ging around in my time machine hard drive look­ing for an old project that a client was want­ing to alter and re-print. Along the way I stum­bled upon a lot old projects that I had for­got­ten about. Being... Read The Rest →

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New Design Spotlight: TivaWater Logo

There are a few things that can get me really, really excited about work­ing on a project. I won’t list them all but along with get­ting to cre­ate some­thing totally out of the box and cre­ative (makes my heart skip a... Read The Rest →

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How To Be A Good Design Client

A cou­ple of weeks ago I wrote a post about How To Be A Good Designer. Not only was it full of good reminder for myself, but I got a lot of pos­i­tive feed­back from fel­low design­ers who were tak­ing the... Read The Rest →

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New Design Spotlight: Illustrated Tote Bags

I was thrilled when Reach Nashville approached me this sum­mer look­ing for some help with an illus­tra­tion project. They were teamed up with Toy­ota and Saatchi and Saatchi to cre­ate a tran­quil Moroccan-themed lounge at the Wan­der­lust con­fer­ences, a series of... Read The Rest →

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How To Be A Good Designer

Have you been a designer for a while? Then you know the drill. You take on a new project, dive in, turn in a few comps and then every­thing starts to go down­hill. You want to blame the client for being... Read The Rest →

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Your Summer Desktop

Some­times it’s time to just switch things up and give it a fresh new look, whether it be your hair­style or your work­space. I’m cur­rently sport­ing new looks for both. Tomor­row is the first offi­cial day of sum­mer, my favorite sea­son... Read The Rest →