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Soliciting Opinions & Ideas: Personal Branding/Title/Logo
O hai, friends! As my strange little career continues to take more and more time from my other important pursuits (you know, like illegally downloading bad buddy comedies from the late 1980s or...
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Design Diversions: Three Blog Header Sketches
Three blog header sketches for the adorable Mitch Saad, younger brother to the questionable Chris Saad. First, the Napoleon Dynamite, junior high-inspired doodley version: Brutal! Next, the groovy,...
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Trends in Web Design: That Paper Cut-Out Thing
Lately, I’ve been looking for web design trends that will completely shake off the iShiny 2.0 look that I’m so very sick of. One trend that’s come to my attention lately is the paper cut-out effect....
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Overheard ECards: A Twitter + Design Project
So, today, I took a few OH tweets I liked from other people’s Twitter streams and made some ecards. The fonts are all Archer, varying weights and sizes. The unifying themes are my favorite colors...
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Old Houses, A Series of Photos
Samples from a series of photos I took of a group of old, dilapidated houses in rural southeastern Virginia in early 2008. Posted in design, photography Tagged: old houses, photos, virginia
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Free Alternatives to Photoshop, Bells & Whistles Included
Over at the Are Dub Dub, I’ve written a monster post reviewing and comparing seven web and desktop apps that might help drive down the cost of Photoshop – or at least give the warez-cracking outlaws...
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In Which I Share My Texture Images
One of my favorite things about the graphic design I do is texture. I usually use a liberal crap-ton of images layered together to create old, crackly, weird, fusty designs, and I’ve had a few people...
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Marijuana Cigarette Packaging: In Which I Answer a Hypothetical Question
I like to tinker with packaging design from time to time, usually under highly hypothetical, wholly improbably, and wildly inappropriate premises. For example, there was the notorious “what if...
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Champagne Coupe: In Which I Sketch a Typeface – UPDATED
Will be rendering the free and hopefully the final versions in FontLab tomorrow. Seven hours from concept on a restaurant napkin to this… I think we’re doing well. UPDATE: Full character set after the...
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In Which the Ol’ Blog Gets a Typekit Makeover
Dudes, have you tried Typekit’s stupidly simple and totally free WordPress kits? I got to pick two great typefaces for the ol’ blog here, choose the classes they apply to, and publish my newly...
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In Which I Show You A Nifty CSS Trick for Rollovers
Check out the all-new, all-singing, all-dancing JolieODell.com! It’s practically a lightswitch rave, folks! Anytime you mouse over an EQ column, all the squares turn bright...
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In Which I Present the Ship of Dreams, A Fantasy in Photoshop
I colored you a picktar! Again, composite Photoshopping with about 50 different images of waves, clouds, the Star of India, the bonny shoals of herring, the birds of the air, and a ton of textures....
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In Which the Ol’ Blog Gets Another Redesign
Another haircolor, another blog theme. Here, we have Structure from Organic Themes. Pretty, innit? It’s a bit more complicated than my previous theme, Cutline, but it lets me show off posts and images...
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I Has A Tumblr
For showing off other people’s blog posts, for remembering other people’s designs, for sharing other people’s videos, I have for some time maintained a Tumblr. I don’t really detest the idea of content...
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Three Christmas Carol-Themed Desktop Wallpapers
I had a lot of time on my hands this lovely Saturday evening, so I colored you a picture. I actually colored three, but only two are remotely fit for public consumption. The third’s just a hot mess. If...
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