I got some interesting feedback after posting a link to my crowdsourcing blog entry on Twitter last week. Another designer said “the best thing a designer can offer is problem solving.” I thought this was a great response because problem solving is such a huge part of what we do as designers. The general problem [...]

The topic of crowdsourcing graphic design is a much-discussed topic these days. It’s typically maligned by designers and applauded by those small business owners with very small marketing budgets.
When crowdsourcing first came to the design world, we designers argued that our work was being devalued by this process and that the people paying for the [...]

There was a really interesting post by Nicholas Carr on his blog a few days ago. The post was about the influence of Google, particularly as it relates to the news media. He basically points out that Google is a “very, very large middleman” that stands between us and the information or product we’re searching [...]

A couple of weeks ago I announced that two of our designs had won awards at this year’s Inland Empire ADDY competition. Both of those designs have now been added to the Portfolio section of our website.
You can view the poster design here and the annual report design here.

I wanted to share a helpful resource for graphic designers or anyone interested in fonts or typography. What The Font from myfonts.com is a great tool for figuring out the name of a particular font. It allows you to upload an image and then helps you identify the font being used. The results are fairly [...]