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 [...]

While surfing random blogs, I came across this poster today for the film “In The Loop” on noordinaryfool.com. The poster art reminded me of something… Something familiar… Then it hit me! The cyan. The hand rendered type. The silhouette… It looks a lot like an ad we have been running for Plumbline in some local [...]

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 [...]

And while we are on the subject of ethics…
I have to say that it is really uncool when a web firm simply links out to websites in their portfolio or client list with no explanation of their involvement (or lack thereof) in that project.
There are so many facets to website design and development - planning, [...]