Birthday reflections

Birthdays are always a good time to step back and take a look at your life. So today, as I close out my 31st year, I thought I’d create a couple of extremely exaggerated and largely imagined infographics, just for…

Blending Type

These are just a couple of experiments using the blend tool in Adobe Illustrator to manipulate type. It never occurred to me to try that before, but I think it creates some interesting effects. Not sure when I’d use them,…

Evernote for graphic designers

I recently guest-wrote a blog post where I talked about some uses for Evernote, the free note-taking software that can be synced to multiple computers and mobile devices. While that post was geared towards more general use, I…

Hand Drawn Calligraphy

I recently did a poster for the University of Georgia that centered around a piece called The Here and Now by Christopher Theofanidis which is based on selected poems by the Persian poet Rumi. They wanted it to have a decidedly Middle Eastern/Turkish feel to it and so I thought it would be the perfect chance to try doing some hand-drawn calligraphy.

2010 KU Jazz Festival

This is a poster I did for the 2010 KU Jazz Festival, taking place on March 5-6. This year’s festival will feature Kenny Garrett (one of my favorite alto players) and his quartet. Here are…

In Time for St. Patrick’s Day

Photo from Flickr

In a very loose connection to St. Patrick’s Day, I wanted to point out an interesting marketing effort by General Mills in which they are bringing back the old school cereal boxes of days past.…

HELLO! SHOW

Just wanted to mention another great art opening happening this week. On Friday, December 5th, 2008, Tad Carpenter and Dan Padavic are showcasing some of their new paintings, art prints, clothing, stationery, and gig posters at

Photo Collections Online

There was a lot of buzz yesterday online about a new photo resource, so I thought I’d mention something about it. LIFE magazine has teamed up with Google to archive thousands of photographs…

Artists for Obama

The Barack Obama Campaign has a series of art prints for sale under the name Artists for Obama. The series is comprised of images inspired by the message of the Obama campaign and they’ve had some…