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Library of Congress WPA Posters There’s some excellent gems here.

Here’s a hint. When you’re viewing the slideshow, you can click on the image and the info will display. Click on the “More about this item…” link and you’ll be taken to a page where you download a much higher resolution and other juicy tidbits.

As Brian Memmott used to say, “If you’re ever tempted to use Avant Garde, use Futura”

Ok kids, time for another tweak. The e was corrected as well as the kerning, but for this post we’ll focus on the s. Notice that the s is about half the width of the d which makes the s feel too dense in compared to the pacing of the rest of the letters. To correct this, don’t use horizontal character stretching. Stretching the glyph to be wider produces too much weight in the horizontal widths/bowls of the s.

Occasionally, I get my hands on some anchor points that need a better foundation. Such was the case for a recent client project. The guilty font was none other than Quicksand. It’s a trendy free font right now. The main problem with the font is the lack of optical balancing in the letter forms. I’ve included an enlarged view of the previous form (pink) and the optically adjusted form (blue). Whenever you have an arm or bowl of a letter meet a vertical stem, it’s tasteful to have some tapering in the connecting area so the font doesn’t feel too clunky. Especially at small sizes, the font will tend to look muddy or heavy.

You can see the full update here.

Here’s a sample of the new 3D renderings for Fort Knox. This will be part of the new customizable safe tool. Shadows still need some work, but I think it’s coming along nicely.

Jpg artifact art. This is after 20 iterations of saving a jpg at 0% quality and then isolating the artifact pattern. The irony? This final image was saved at 100 % quality to preserve the artifact sharpness.

artifact art

Harmonica NES

Since a few people asked, here’s some of the procedure/tools to make the NES Harmonica.

My man didn’t win. Actually no one I voted for ended up getting elected.

free music note image

Here’s a free vector music note I drew just for you. It’s an Adobe Illustrator CS4 file. Enjoy and pay it forward.

Responsibilities: Photos and site design

Home page design

It was a pleasure to work with Aspen Cove / Mark Nelson. Beautiful location for a cabin in Utah. Photos shot with Canon 5D Mark II.

Of all the shirts I’ve designed, I look forward to wearing this on the most.

Here’s a rejected one, but I may print a derivative of this one.

Designed in Black and White so the production peeps can produce it in any color. But then again, I like black and white a lot of the time.