Design

Stupid Firebug Tricks | The Facebook Fortune Cookie Hack and a few more…

If you aren’t using Firefox/Firebug, you should be. To do these tricks, which may prove fruitful for fun office pranks, eliminating annoying content or just general shenanigans you will need: Firefox Firebug A healthy sense of humor. Load up FireFox/Bug… I’ll wait. Firebug live editing is a fun way to look at the structure of [...]


The Lap of Luxury – a premptive critique

Luxury fonts were originally designed by Christian Schwartz and available via Orange Italic. I was excited, my family business is jewelry and these typefaces are intended for the upscale market. The type family names are Diamonds, Platinum and Gold, a cinch that I would want to use them. In 2006, House Industries purchased the rights [...]


Changes

Over next couple of months there are going to be a series of changes. Some will be small changes, more writing, more downloads and hopefully more visitors and comments. Others will be larger, the design will change, as will the intent of the site, which is to say, it will become more of a Portfolio [...]


Time For a Bit o’ Hate | Projectile Catharsis & Apple, Inc.

I would like to take a moment, just one, and remove my “everybody play nice” hat and just lather up a Hot Steaming Mug of hate ( and hubris) over the current feelings about Apple. I own an iPod, this is a matter for full disclosure, and I am a Graphic Designer. You haven’t heard [...]


Cables and Cogs

Freebie time again. I found the blog, Brass Goggles, again the other night. I have quite a soft spot for all things steam punk, it suits my anachronistic nature. So in that spirit, I went to my library of brushes and found my cogs. I had developed a set of gears for a flash project [...]