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Label Maker

Ever since I received a label maker in a gift exchange this past year labels have been showing up in the oddest places.

Design the Modern Board

Have you always wanted to design a snowboard? Here’s your chance, and it is for a good cause! SOS Outreach, K2 Snowboarding, and Design within Reach in Seattle are putting on a snowboard design contest: Design the Modern Board. The winner gets a K2 board with their own custom topsheet! SOS Outreach provides all of … Continued

Web 0.2

This is what the desktop on the first typing/computer class I had in school looked like. Booted up from a disk and everything. We would use the typing program and repeat the cryptic sentences in our books. Sentences like, ‘Ask a lad; ask a lass, all Jacks fall’. Yes we had typing books for our … Continued

Blogging Heads

Blogging Heads is a website that features political and social discussions. It can be pretty dry and it is definitely not for everyone, but I like it a lot. Check it out if you enjoy hearing intelligent people argue the issues of the day. It is particularly good while working or cooking. Anyway, they have … Continued

Lemon Drop Pop

My great friends Phil and Lauren are getting hitched this August and I have been honored with the task of creating some invitations for them. We are going to hand silk-screen everything as soon as the paper arrives. I ordered the paper from French Paper, our favorite paper company. The type/color is Pop Tone Lemon … Continued

Land, Air, and Sea

Seattle artist Weston Jandacka creates breath taking artwork with great attention to technical detail of all mediums. We met Weston in 2008 when he showed Within Your Blinking Eye at Blank Space Gallery. Until recently, his art focused on 2-dimensional photo realism oil painting and photography. Jandacka’s completely new body of work titled Land, Air, … Continued

Poster Design Concept

Here is our first draft for Seattle’s National Park Family Day. (Sans all of the sponsor logos.) I am sure it will evolve. I think it would look great silk screened. Maybe we’ll have to get our silk screening set-up going soon!

A Celebration of NW National Parks!

photo: Olympic NP, Shi Shi Beach. We were lured here in 2007 by a park ranger who said it was The most beautiful beach in the world. NPCA and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park host Seattle’s first annual NW National Park Family Day, at Steward Park on May 2nd. I can’t think of a … Continued

Rejection and Failure and Cinnamon Buns

When Alton Brown says All Purpose flour he means it. If you try some fancy pastry flour mixed substitute YOU WILL BE SLIGHTLY DISAPPOINTED! Only slightly though, because mediocre cinnamon buns are still cinnamon buns for crying out loud. So, I failed a little and I learned a little. Happy Day. Rejection however is a … Continued