What makes people who they are? I suppose the variables to that questions are nearly endless but still, there has to be something that contributes early on to make us the people we become in life.
Take me for example. From an early age I was attracted to the color black. In fact I can remember [...]

First of all let me bring you all up to speed. I’m am currently in the hospital. Remember all that coughing and shortness of breath I had going on? Turns out that was my heart preparing to explode. About a week ago I was having an extra trough time with the coughing so against all [...]

As some of you know by now I am working on starting my own branding firm in the near future. I started a design company once before but things don’t always go so well when there are partners involved. So without getting into details, things just didn’t work out so I sold my share of [...]

Here is the final (I hope) version of the Bright Black logo. I have taken all of your suggestions into account and thank you so much for the feedback. I am excited and proud to present… Bright Black!

Here are some of the other versions I came up with.

“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing” - Aristotle
We are often our own worst critics. Sometimes to the point where we are literally holding ourselves back from success. I have spent a lifetime battling my own critical demons and wasted many opportunities simply because I felt [...]

All creative types have “blocks” that they deal with. Graphic designers are no different. I know that I have had several periods where I simply cannot think of anything to make a job work. Here is a short but distinguished list of things that have helped me break through designer’s block.

My buddy Donald Claxton tagged me to write up 7 things that you don’t know about me. Here are seven things that (most of) you don’t know about me. Let’s go shall we?

As designers we sometimes complain about our lack of creative freedom when dealing with clients. Because I am one of the biggest advocates of freedom that I know of, I want to bring some attention to ONE DAY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
We often forget about the people in the world who aren’t free to live their [...]

My good friend Anca Foster started One Day For Human Rights to promote a movement for the preservation of dignity and basic freedoms for all of mankind.

I have compiled a list of a few of my Twitter friends who are also designers and their work spaces. It’s fun to see how other designers organize the space where they spend so much time. I have also included mine!