Last week I promised to show you my brand spankin’ new office and here it is! It made sense to showcase it today since I’ve been chained to my computer here all week working on the 2009 Media Kit and redoing my print portfolio. For the overall theme of the office, I was aiming for [...]

• MTV International has traded in the bright colors and 100+ variations of its logo for a more subdued black and white palette. What do you think about the change? • Freelance Switch has some fantastic information up for grabs in Resume Basics for Freelancers: Wording Your Resume Right with recommendations on keywords and action [...]

I’ve just finished my 2009 media kit, What is Nubby and below is the final outcome. It’s been coming together over the last few months and though the layouts started out very simple, I later decided to add some more drama to a few of the pages. The pages that are packed with advertising details [...]

A friend recently passed the Nordstrom 90: Over Ninety Brilliant Finds Under Ninety Dollars for the Ninety Days of Summer onto me and I’m really liking the creative direction that they took. They’ve used a lot of overlapping transparencies, stacks of numbers and handwritten descriptions to great effect. They also printed the 20 page catalog [...]

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I attempted to imitate the moves that Michael is doing on the shirt for you, but at 9 a.m., it just wasn’t working! Instead, I’m giving Lee the look of “hurry up!!!” because I was expecting visitors. Soon after, I had two aunts, a cousin and my grandpa & grandma over to hang out at [...]

I spent part of the week in Reno and I’m so glad that I did! Previously, I’d only been to Reno for layovers on my way to Vegas but after staying there for four days and soaking up more of the atmosphere, I love it! We stayed at the Peppermill which is the coolest hotel [...]

I normally don’t share fashion spreads (there are plenty of other blogs that cover that niche) but when V Magazine sent me a preview of one of their spreads from an upcoming issue, I just had to share. I discovered V back at issue #3 and an entire shelf in my closet is dedicated to [...]

• I absolutely love Gotham Chopra’s article Writing Songs With My Good Friend Mike where he recalls their decades of friendship with many funny moments including this: “He’d visit our house in Massachusetts where he’d sleep in the guest room. My mom got a great kick out of the fact that every morning Michael stayed, [...]