February 2010
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February 26: webcraftsman
Version 1 Colophon: Adobe Jenson Pro, semibold weight on the logo Version 2 Colophon: Adobe Caslon Pro, semibold weight on logo, italic on text I was playing around with a logo/mark idea today. I have been using “webcraftsman” as my user name on Twitter and other social networking sites. I believe craftsman is a great way to describe how God made me. I really enjoy the process of...
Feb 26th
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“Every practice has a set of rules which governs it. Mastery occurs with the...”
– Fiel Valdez
Feb 16th
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“Functionality leads to usage; aesthetics lead to emotions.”
– Elliot Jay Stocks, Presentation at Future of Web Design NYC 2009
Feb 11th
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“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think about...”
– Richard Buckminster Fuller
Feb 11th
January 2010
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January 22 : Ten
Colphon: Caecilia Bold and Caecilia Light Italic Languages: Hungarian, Spanish, Croat/Czech, Italian, German
Jan 22nd
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that...”
– Winston Churchill
Jan 22nd
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“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...”
– Sir Winston Churchill
Jan 22nd
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January 18, 2010
This was an idea I had last week in celebration of my wife’s return home. I took care of our three kids (9, 6, and 3) for a week while my wife cared for her mother. This was an idea that came into my head as we were leaving to pick her up at the airport last Wednesday. Colophon: Frutiger LT Std Roman
Jan 19th
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January 13, 2010
It is interesting how ideas have just been coming to me that have allowed me to engage in this challenge to design something every day. The thought came to me this afternoon to make a graphic to put on my Web site that would point to this space on Tumblr where I am posting my work. I may work on some more iterations in the days to come. Colophon: Candara and Candara Bold. It was the typeface...
Jan 14th
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January 11 & 12, 2010
I am still trying to decide if I want to commit to the “design something each day” challenge from Smashing Magazine. I have several other goals that I am considering. I don’t want to stretch myself too thin. I have had the chance to design a couple of things over the past 2 weeks, so I am going to go ahead and throw these out there. Andy Clarke issued a challenge on January 5th to design a...
Jan 13th
“Creativity without strategy is called art. Creativity with strategy is called...”
– Steve Pearce
Jan 11th
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January 5, 2010
My first attempt in the “design something each day” challenge from Smashing Magazine. I have to say I was inspired by the typographical work Jason VanLue is doing for the same challenge. I started with the bottom one in a sans-serif typeface and then tried another in a serif font. Colophon: San-serif typeface is League Gothic, a free download from The League of Moveable Type. Serif typeface...
Jan 5th