Make My Logo Bigger
November 5, 2007 
“Goes on smooth,” is the claim for makemylogobiggercream.com.I was introduced to this website by a designer colleague back east. It’s touches on every painful request a client can make. The ones you bang your head on your desk over. The requests that make you wonder why you don’t just sell shoes for a living.”Can you make my logo bigger?”"Can you lose some of that white space?”"Gosh, we’d love to see a starburst on this corner.”"Hey, can you make this a bit more colorful?”Those clients are forgotten when in the heat of the design process, I wrestle a great image down to the ground and wrap it up in the perfect headline, I can sit back and say, “Ah…. now let’s add a little more white space.”
Typography: For Good or Evil
October 22, 2007 
Well, I must admit that this was such a comfortable subject for me that I let it get away from me.I thought it’d be easy to find great examples of each, but the sheer information on the web nearly throws me into an axiety attack. Performance anxiety attack.GOODSo many examples of lovely type. Some just in the headers, or throught the art of the body, but for a soft, beautiful treatment of hand-drawn and display type I chose the website for an illustrator from Philadelphia. Bearskinrug has a vintage feel to it but seems fresh as well. Retro without being fussy. The tiny woodcut touches are simple and tasteful. Less is more. Thank god.EVILAnything with Zapf Chancery. All Caps. Or the god forsaken Comic Sans. Please stop using that font. Or perhaps a rookie favorite, Papyrus. Please. Please stop using these fonts.
