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New Mexico to San Diego

-A- — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:59:39 +0000

It’s been almost a year since I relocated from Albuquerque, New Mexico to southern California. I am loving the weather in San Diego and being so close to the ocean. I also enjoy being part of a larger design community with lots of great designers and agencies in the San Diego area. Meeting so many creatives has been fun, and I look forward to networking with many more.

With this update, I am renewing my efforts to post my thoughts on design and branding more often. Check back soon to read what I’ve learned this last year about branding yourself and Job Hunting 2.0.

iPhone Font

-A- — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:22:53 +0000

Here is something someone did who had too much time on their hands. Still kind of funny, besides they forgot the second most important letter, in my opinion, “W”.

OK Go – Video

-A- — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:54:26 +0000

The band that did a hugely viral video the treadmill video has just released a new song with a pretty cool video. I wonder how many times they had to practice this to get it in one take. Check it out.

Funny Commercial

-A- — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:57:37 +0000

Someone showed this to me on Facebook the other day and I have seen it on the air a few times. It is pretty funny.

Alphabet 26

-A- — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:01:03 +0000

I found this online today. It is the idea that there are only 26 letters in the English language but we have 45 different symbols to represent those letters. Our conventional alphabet contains 19 letters having dissimilar upper and lower case symbols (such as ‘A’ and ‘a’) and 7 letters (c-o-s-v-w-x-z) having symbols that are identical. So Bradbury Thompson came up with a radical idea in 1950s call “Alphabet 26″. With Alphabet 26, he proposed a plan based upon the logic of consistency, proposed that of the 19 letters that have dissimilar symbols 15 letters should use the uppercase designs [black letters below] and 4 letters should use the lowercase designs [green letters]. The other 7 letters already have identical symbols [blue letters].

I find this to be a very interesting concept, specially as I see Audrey (my young daughter) start to learn to read and she sometimes struggles with the different letters. Although I do see some fault in it because we often read words by their shape, not just the letters. So if we were to accept this system of writing it would cause everything to look like it was written in ALL CAPS and we would lose the shape of words making it harder to read words.

Cool Wall Art

-A- — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:47:20 +0000

OK, I have been wanting to do this for a while, but I found a webpage where they did it pretty cool.

Click Here

“Shred A” T-shirt

-A- — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:06:35 +0000

This is something I just found. I guess I need to add it to my wish list of cool letter “A” T-shirts.

Font Conference

-A- — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:56:07 +0000

He He He!

Audrey on a Zip Line

-A- — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:49:14 +0000

So I took Audrey & Jane to the Fathers and Son’s camp out. I have taken Audrey before, because I like to go camping and I don’t get to do it enough. So this time at the camp out someone brought a zip line. Audrey wanted to go on it and I tried to talk her out of it, but she insisted. Audrey had so much fun that she went on it two more time. I was so proud of how brave she was to go on the zip line.

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-A- — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:43:10 +0000

Typography is cool. It is interesting to see the kid drawing the letters next to the professional painter. It makes me think of how Audrey draws her letters. It is interesting to see how some of her letters turn out.