This happens a lot actually and not just to me. Most designers I know have some of their best ideas when they are “off the clock.” My friend James and I would have great ideas at the gym, mountain biking, or most often during a sushi bender (sake is a conduit for creative thinking btw).
The [...]

On a recent episode of Kitchen Nightmares, Chef Ramsay when reviewing a menu at a pizza / Italian place in So. Cal said that he has one rule: When a menu has pictures on it, run away.
Now, nothing against Chardonnay Golf Club, it’s a great Country Club. And I hear the food is good - [...]

How long has it been since Al Gore invented in Internet? Feels like a century.
That’s about 20 in web years though right?
I designed and built my first site around 1993. And even back then in the web design “dark ages” (no formatted text or tables! Just bold tags, blinking links, and bad backgrounds!) we were [...]

Okay. Maybe I’m making too much of this, but we just finished up a patient information brochure for Novarx Corp. in San Diego. They are working on an entirely new way to fight cancer. And it looks like they could really make an impact.
When we met them we were all awestruck at what they were [...]

I was watching TV the other day and saw the new ad for the Ford F150. I’d seen it a few times before but this time it occurred to me that the ads reminded me of those cool “kinetic typography” pieces that all all over YouTube. Seems obvious to me that the inspiration for the [...]