People whos talent I am jealous of: Stefanie Posavec

Con­sider this the first in my one-part series on human beings who have a gift and tal­ent the makes my blood seethe with envy. This pres­ti­gious bur­den gets placed today onto Ste­fanie Posavec. Ste­fanie is a 28-year old Den­ver native who has man­aged to snag the recent cover design gig for inter­net wunderkinds […]

9 Essential Resources for Portland Artists

look but don't artBasi­cally, Port­land is over­run with artists and cre­ative types, which is great, because it really deep­ens the cul­ture of our city!  Not so great for the cre­atives how­ever, who fight to find a niche, noto­ri­ety, or sim­ply a wall to hang their work […]

Real, artful, mobile wallpapers that i might actually want to have on my phone

poolga wallpaper

Now THAT’s wallpaper

Poolga. iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch wall­pa­pers for the rest of us. -

Poolga offers a direc­tory of wall­pa­pers for mobile devices from artists, design­ers, and illus­tra­tors, and as far as I can tell.… they are all FREE (as in beer).  The designs range from […]

What I'm Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Feb­ru­ary 16th through March 9th:

Neil Dawson’s Horizons

Neil Dawson’s Hori­zons « We got more bounce in Colum­bus. –Car­toons invade the third dimen­sion. This sculp­ture makes delight­ful games out of real­ity.
My City vs. […]

Art & Science: Two great tastes…

nikon1992

What could this image be?  A sketchy Van Gogh ren­der­ing of a hay­field at dawn-light?  Per­haps?  A pho­to­graph of a 10-year old prepa­ra­tion of bar­bi­tal, fenace­tine, val­ium, and acetic acid?

Well, if you chose the lat­ter then give your­self a gold star…

A pho­tomi­crog­ra­phy con­test spon­sored by Nikon compiles […]

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This appeals to me on so many lev­els.  Hon­estly, i don’t know what else to say.

spare the

via (title unknown).

Merlin Mann Lays It Out: Get Started!

hotdogsladies_tweetI con­tinue to find Mr. Mann’s talks on the busi­ness of doing cre­ative things thought-provoking and (yes, at times) inspir­ing.  He is of course talk­ing to a con­tem­po­rary gen­er­a­tion of what he refers to as knowledge-workers, so the audi­ence for this stuff is lim­ited.  But his […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from July 18th through July 26th:

wnybac1Hype­r­ion Books –Free down­load of Free. Chris Anderson’s new book about the emer­gence of free con­tent and how the world can (needs to) adapt to our new free […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from July 10th through July 17th:

Ana Benaroya _Illustration_Design_Typography –

a deli­cious menagerie of beau­ti­ful hand-drawn illus­tra­tions and type. Look at all the per­son­al­ity in these. An artist with a voice, i like that.

beau­ti­ful fonts with @font-face at hacks.mozilla.org –

With the advent of FF3.5 […]

What I’m into: today

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from today.

How to Craft Your Per­sonal Busi­ness Model — Free­lanceSwitch — The Free­lance Blog –This is get­ting me think­ing about the free­lance biz plan. What’s my pro­fes­sional mis­sion? What are my pro­fes­sional values?

once you can say with cer­tainty how you want […]