In honor of Obama’s win (and before you jump to conclusions, this is by no means a political post or designed to show my support for a candidate), as a designer, I’ve been to his Web site a number of times. It’s an incredibly good piece of work. His campaign will already go down in [...]
Alright, everyone’s seen the FedEx logo. I know you have. It’s almost as ubiquitous as Coke or the golden arches. And just as a reminder, here you go:
Normal, right? Not so. Never was. Best design “easter egg” ever. I’ve got to give credit to BadAssIdeas.com for opening my eyes:
That picture is from their site, so [...]
Weekly unique users to an anonymous application on Facebook
Ever since Facebook started debuting their new design and kindly giving everyone the choice to play with it before they make everyone use it anyway, there has been quite the serious backlash about it. It’s not uncommon to hear a random drop something about it, almost as [...]
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 [...]