The understanding of a drawing verses how it translates to a real 3 dimensional product is something every designer (whether it’s fashion, product, architecture, interior, etc) and every client wrestles with. I love love love fashion illustrations, but it’s often difficult for me to see a true relationship between that gorgeous illo and the [...]

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New Year’s Eve midnight moments - there are actually 38 of them! Wha? Some time zones are only 30 minutes different and a couple are only 15 minutes different. Weird. Here’s a sampling of New Year times in comparison to Raleigh, NC (USA EST, GMT -5) …you can decide when you start (and stop) [...]

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There’s a new book out that I’m gonna have to own called “H2O.” It’s photography of people underwater and the beauty and otherworldly weightlessness of being there. Check out the slide show from NY Times.

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Today I came across a picture of myself where there was a date on the photo over my shirt, and my face had several extremely shiny spots… other than those problems the photo was pretty cute, SO like any graphic designer, I opened up photoshop to un-shine/un-date the photo. If you don’t have that photoshop [...]

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Yesterday I realized, among all of the holiday bustle that I hadn’t purchased a 2008 Calendar yet. This year I did my calendar shopping at Etsy.com. Etsy, is a website that contains “shops” set up by different artists/designers/craftspeople with their goods. Basically it is a bunch of unique items all in one place. If you [...]

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