Mad Men's poster

A fun discussion about this poster at The New Yorker..

60s video..

This style makes me smile, and reminds me Mad Men is back in nearly a month!

Jenny Lewis "See Fernando" from Team G on Vimeo.

You know you're a graphic designer when....

...you identify your first font based on sight alone!!

These are great resources. I like identifont best, as it will walk you through how specific letters look. My one complaint is there's no option for script fonts (which was what i needed) and you have to guess what the computer THINKS is a script...

(Yup--that's Bickham Script Pro--only took me 30 minutes, mostly because they have different descenders for each letter---the loopy G can also look like the Y and vise-versa, of course it would be one with options!)

Weaver Family Recipes

So the past...two? years I've been working with my mother on a recipe book. The idea came awhile ago, I started shooting my own 'sexy food' shots starting two Christmases ago, and didn't really get working on the design until last March. A year later---we are ALMOST done. A few atrocious spelling and grammar errors still need to be corrected, but then it's off to the printers. Not cheap either---104 pages in color (26 double-sided). Bound for the folks I love----PDF for everyone else!

Here's an example of the design I was working with. Each course has a different color..plus fun old photos from our family album:

What better way to get back into the fold...

Sorry--it's been a year. BUT having lately discovered how much I miss blogging, I am going to start it up again. Designing nerds--beware!

To get us started, this is the most hysterical design-centered joke of a video ever. What makes it better is that I THINK the guy in there actually posted it himself.



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