Blog
An irregularly updated set of posts on topics from insights to rants.
Adobe Illustrator is the digital skill that separates the wheat from the chaff.
We recently moved offices. What a painful process. Picking through everything you put somewhere and deciding what goes and what goes away. I found a stack of very old newsletters from Adobe dating back to 1988. The advertisement below was on the back of this large...
Helvetica: It’s Our Type of Movie
Are you a "typomaniac?" If you come out of this movie with a crush on Helvetica then you know that the answer to that question should be yes! This documentary, done on the typeface Helvetica's 50th birthday, does more than tell about this particular typeface. It...
Blogs with no post dates are cowards
There... I said it... and I am just saying what everyone else is thinking. It drives me nuts when I get a search result linking to a blog post about only to find it has no date. It is not that the date matters all the time, but when it does matter, its absence puts...
Keep your website and email hosting separate.
Occasionally we run across small businesses who are still using the email services they setup along with their first website. This is the email that is managed in the same "control panel" as your website. It made sense a long time ago. It was part of the package and...