It’s funny how every Y-Conference seems to reflect an underlying theme. This year’s was that side projects and pro-bono work can lead to other assignments. Wayne White spoke how he played with puppets and that led to his work on Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Brian Singer shared his many side projects including 1000 Journals. Eric Thoelke shared [...]

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How are you going to start off the year. A fun piece I created with JennDavid.com for AIGA San Diego. All incidents  based on real life.

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Oh, the glories of the Internet. A poster from back in the days when chicks on boards were a rare thing. My payment for this was two Sector 9 longboards, back in the day when longboards were kind of a rare thing. (Now my daughter and I cruise together.)

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Yay, design hero Svante Nilson and I partnered on a book for client EdHive. It was just featured on Behance for Typography. Real proud of the visuals on this one. (And the copy ain’t bad either.) See more here!

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What drives you as a designer? Fame, glory, money (not), the chance to influence people? A couple of weeks ago I attended the AIGA San Diego 17th Annual Y Design Conference. The line up of speakers was fabulous. I was particularly charmed by Andrew Byrom who talked about how he financed some of his own [...]

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The gathering of the faithful. Design conferences are kind of like old-fashioned tent revivals that southern churches use to hold. Once a year, you need to re-energize your faith, stand up and say, “Amen, I believe, sistah!” So once a year, I take some time out, turn off the email and drink some of the [...]

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I have had the honor and great pleasure working on communications for the upcoming AIGA San Diego Y-Conference. Justin Skeesuck of Seen & Noted and Tracy Meiners of StudioTM headed up the design efforts. This year’s theme is Spark. Spark an idea. Spark a conversation. Spark a revolution. Check out the website here. Tracy did [...]

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Hacienda is the place where Sinatra, John Wayne and Raquel Welch hung out back in the day when Cabo San Lucas was a sleepy fishing town. Times have changed but Hacienda is still the place in Cabo, just steps from the marina and downtown. (And speaking of Cabo Wabo, Sammy Hagar made 200 million licsensing [...]

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One of the most amazing things about coworking at theHIVE is meeting all the diverse creatives that work here. Of course that means a simple trip to the kitchen can take a 1/2 an hour because you have to stop and chat and check out their latest projects. One of the newest Hivers is Susie [...]

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