I try real hard not to curse in my blog posts, but I don’t know whose jackass idea it was to create this piece of crap:
I know it’s hard to tell, but that’s the Houston Texans secondary logo. That stupid thing is creeping all throughout the organization like a cancer. They started giving it out [...]
UPDATE, 08-19-08: Rumor has it they’re going with Thunder. While it’s not the worst name in the world, it’s certainly not as cool as Outlaws. When I hear “thunder” I immediately think of “thunder thighs”—and that’s not a good thing.
A while back, I made a post about the design contest over at Uni Watch to [...]
Well, the time has finally come for me to move on. Today is my last day working as a Graphic and Web Designer at Rice University. I’m moving on to work 100% for a Web design company—something I wish I could have been doing 100% of the time I was at Rice. I leave with [...]
Last night, being the avid baseball fan I am, I sat next to my brother and my roommate and watched the Ridiculously Over-hyped State Farm Home Run Derby. The Home Run Derby has long been a facet of the All-Star game, and it’s usually pretty entertaining.
Spoilers ahead! If you don’t want to know who wins, [...]
Every Spring, Rice University’s Dance Department puts on their big dance performance. Because Rice Dance Theatre is housed under the Rec Center, I am always assigned with the task of marketing the event. In the past, it’s been “Incite Insight” and “Backward with Conviction” and so on and so forth; in 2008, the theme was [...]
Today I’m going to show you how (along with my thought process) to design a logo for a food retail operation. Sammy’s Cafe is a retail operation contracted out to a man that resides within the Student Center at Rice University. The owner/operator asked me to design a logo for them (along with a ton [...]
Design is a serious flurry of inspiration. You see something you like one day, you mentally note it, possibly come back to it one day for a piece you’re working on. You try to put your own flair on it. You take what someone has already done and make it your own.
Either way, Goodby, Silverstein [...]