January 2014 or: Making an 18-year project in 3 weeks Eighteen years ago, Sylvia Nibley had an idea for a card deck. There were already a preponderance of decks out there—tarot and the like—but none of them prompted users to find the answers to Life, the...
May 2013 Step 1: Don’t be an engineer. In case you missed the subhead: don’t be an engineer. Actually, you can be one, you just can’t act like one and expect to get good design at a reasonable price. Don’t get me wrong; some of my best friends are engineers. And that...
March 2013 If you were searching for “A Tale of Toucans,” please visit our aviary division. So you want a business card. The templates from online printers are pleasant enough, in their one-size-fits-many way, but you’d rather look unique, which is...
December 2012 It’s That Time of Year. . . . . . when the world sends out reams of paper neatly folded into envelopes It’s time once again to dread the wonderful world of solstice-time greetings! We’ve moved from a sepia-toned time when we just...
September 2012 I Know Why The Fishy Laughs There’s more than one way to skin a trout. Or mix a metaphor. Or a perfect martini. When ad-man, author and man-about-town Jim Ure approached me to design a book cover for his newest release, a madcap adventure that...
