Oct 04
My friend, the writer John Coggin, who is writing a book on my Grand-dad, former Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, knows how to spin a yarn and keep his audience interested. See the walkin’ lawton blog
here for details.
Apr 19
Isin’t the technical aspects of typography, layout, and positioning annoying? Do you find yourself asking if you laid our your project the right way?
Mar 22
Books You Need To Read To Get Ahead In Graphic Design
I’m compiling these resources and interviews, in my brain, and there are so many artists out there who are turning me on to so many great websites…and books and so on. The Logo Lounge Books are awesome, as well as Robin William’s books, specifically the Non-Designers Guide To Design. I HIGHLY recommend you pick it up if you are new to designing and graphic art of any kind…
Feb 27
Thought you guys might like to browse through this book at Borders or B&N.
Oh, Oreillynet.com subscribers can read these books online! Pretty awesome. I sue it for Scott Kelby’s Classic Photoshop Effects and Kelby’s Down and Dirty Tricks books.
Adobe Press - 9780321385543 - Print Like a Pro: A Digital Photographer’s Guide
Feb 21
From Kazaa to Skype and now Joost. Are these Swedish Fiends geniuses or Hype Masters?
It will remain to be seen what happens with all this new content. It also will remain to be seen what kind of new copyright laws are enacted.
Will We Create the Content or will They?
I do not think Joost will have user-generated content like YouTube. However, their content will be provided from already-established media giants like Viacom, Warner and Apple, to hypothesize. This could be bad for us, meaning the Average Joe Public.
Why?
Well, User Generated Content or UGC for an abbreviation, is the king of the Internet right now, mainly because it is free for all. Once these media giants start figuring out how not to shoot themselves in the foot, they will start providing higher–quality and possibly, more interesting content than we can provide.
Feb 16
Stay tuned for my first Podcast and interview with Jeff Witchell of LAYER magazine’s Tip of the Day fame. We have been talking and Jeff has a fountain of wisdom and advice and knowledge for the beginning and advanced creative.
I am really excited to get into podcasting, web2.0 and other ventures.
I figure if this is a blog about design, media ,and advertising, it should act like it right?
The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide To Graphic Design
Also, there will be a PDF coming out of all the books, tools , people, and solutions that I use on a daily basis. This will include you on my journey on design, what I read, where I have turned, mistakes I made that you should not, etc.
Feb 01
Well, get these and you’ll keep the midnight lamp burning….
Web Design Books, Subscriptions and Tools - Airbag Industries - Things Designers Want
