I’m always intrigued with what people can turn into a book.
Like photos of corn.
A Year of Corn. Yeah, it sounds weird. But the images are really beautiful.
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Ixnay on the Owerflay
I’ve decided to nix the flower in my Project Blended logo. It’s pretty, and it will always hold a special place in my heart as the first decent thing I was able to make in Illustrator. But it doesn’t really say anything about the project – if anything, I look at it and...
MSNBC Multiracial Article
MSNBC has an article about the growing multiracial population in the United States. There is also a really cool interactive feature that has pictures of mixed race individuals, couples, and families along with a few words sharing their experiences. I want to grab all these people and photograph them!
Project Blended is chugging along; I...
CSS Zen Garden
CSS Zen Garden is a fun site. Different programmers/designers take the same website and give it their own design. The following images all contain the same text, but radically different designs.
You can browse through all the designs here. You can also look at designs that have been rejected. Both sections provide...
Little Flowers
I’ve spent the better part of the weekend playing around with Adobe Illustrator, and this is what I was able to come up with. A flower and some text. And it took uh-looong time.
I’ve been using The Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book, and just making it through the first couple chapters has made...
The Migrant Project
I listen to KCRW’s Good Food weekly, and while the focus of the show is (obviously) food, they also run interesting stories on the way food intersects with different areas of our personal lives, culture, and society.
Last week the host, Evan Kleiman, interviewed photographer Rick Nahmias, who spent time traveling with migrant workers in California....
I Say Letter, You Say Parcel
I always thought that if something was in an envelope, it was a letter. If it was in a box, it was a parcel.
But no . . . apparently that’s not the case.
I mail CD’s of photographs to my clients. I place the CD in a cardboard sleeve, write a letter full of...
Self-Published Photography Books
I’ve been hunting around the internet looking for companies that produce albums for photographers. So far I’ve looked at materials from AsukaBook, Zookbinders, and Renaissance. All look promising. I’m mostly interested in albums that are like books, rather than more traditional matted or mounted styles, where actual prints are in the album.
Which...
Illustrator and the Mighty Pen (Tool)
When I bought Adobe’s Design Premium Suite, I was mostly interested in Photoshop. Of course the products are packaged so that it’s cheaper to buy a whole slew of software rather than just two or three program. So I’m finally getting around to learning the other programs.
I want to learn Illustrator so that...
The Power of Images
I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts the other day – Slate’s Political Gabfest – and they were talking about the lack of images coming out of Myanmar in the wake of the cyclone disaster, and how that contributes to the fact that the story really isn’t on Americans’ minds. Above is...