I bought the compilation of The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite a couple of days ago because my wife had a subscription of Archie comics which she had to pick up. I was very happy that I did. I rarely read comics so I may not be the best critic for these things. [...]

I find myself going back to learning Processing when I feel the need for fresh air or escape. Someone told me that I was too technical to be creative. Working with highly technical people, this was something new to me. I always am thought of as creative than technical. I [...]

It’s flattering to see people wearing your design. Even though it was a gift, I saw that the people genuinely liked the shirts that we handed out to them. Although I was just limited by 3 colors, I had the freedom of designing what the shirt would look like. I made the [...]

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I spent about 2 hours this late evening/early morning looking at CSS and HTML code, tweaking colors and fine tuning little elements that make the page.  After 2 hours and countless debugging, I gave up.  I looked at what I had finished and just saw something so plain that I can’t believe [...]

First off, Merry Christmas to you. :)  
But this post isn’t about the holidays where people are rushing to buy gifts nor is it a scrooge post saying how Christmas makes us melancholy.  Nope.  This post is about how prevalent the web is in our lives that some of us, present company not excluded, are spending some [...]

There are rumors in the mac news blogs now of a new iPhone: a Nano version. I’m really curious to see the price point that they will make this at if it is true. There are mockups of 3.5 inch screens here. I thought of mocking up another version using 2.5 inch screens [...]

Last August, I participated in a contest and submitted a design to a local government agency called the MMDA.  The task was to design a landmark that would be built in front of the newly opened airport, Terminal 3.  
My concept was simple but I thought was solid: There were 2 landmark spots and I [...]

I’ve written about “why I write about design” on this blog before. And it has been quite some time since I have written anything, more than a month. Like Micheal Beirut said in his Design Observer blog, “I write to slow things down again, to question my own premises, to force myself to pay attention…”   I guess this [...]

Back in college I had a professor that taught us the difference between “questioning the faith” and “doubting your faith.”  I’m not going to speak religion here, but more on looking back at my design career.  I will be using the same words but swapping the word “faith” with “design career.”
The past month was very [...]

In my mind, Starbucks has one of the strongest brands in the world. A solid logo implemented flawlessly across their stores around the globe. So it was a big surprise when I saw this article in Brand New that they have gone back to their first logo! In the US, Starbucks has launched [...]