Yo quero taco bell

If you manage a website in any way, this tool called Typetester can be helpful. It lets you type in a paragraph of text and then you can test the many different kinds of "web-safe" text styles. Heck, it even lets you see how any of the fonts installed on your own computer look like...so it's good all around.

I'm always eager to show new work, but sometimes in the interest of my client's confidentiality about what they're doing I have to keep things under wraps. This one should be ok, since she's actively going around passing them out already...


Business cards and hangtags. Pretty fun eh? This was one of those rare fun jobs where she's just let me run with almost whatever ideas I've come up with...so I got to do these funky things that would normally be rejected by some of my other conservative clients.

I got some logos that are about wrapping up. Hopefully I can show them off soon. I think I'm getting better and better at using Illustrator now. It's always been my crutch.... I'm pretty confident with my Photoshop skills, but ask me to do all these fancy Illustrations it takes me a while. But with all this practice doing logo work lately, I've surprised myself even.

Talk about surprises, I'm entertaining the fact of getting a MacPro this time around when I upgrade my system. I've always been a staunch PC supporter all these years, which is rare in my industry, simply because I can do everything I need to do on a PC that I can do in a MAC, and at a third of the cost.

So why switch? I don't know really. I think it may be fun to try something else for a change maybe? I've always appreciated how good Apple products looked on the outside...it appeals to my tastes. Plus I will appreciate not hearing the question, "Oh, so you're a designer but you don't work on a Mac?" ever again.

Now the geniouses at Apple finally figured out how to catch us stubborn PC addicts by throwing Intel chips in their machines and making it easy to dual-boot the Macs so they can run Windows if we needed to. Good move.

The only thing that will certainly SUCK is the cost of not only the MacPro, but replacing all the software I currently already have for the PC. All told it could be another $6k just to get me into running condition with all the software I need and the system performing the way I'd like it.

Why is it that all the things I require these days are all 4 figures damnit? What happened to the good old days in Junior High when all I had was $5 a week allowance and I would be thrilled just to buy myself a $1 taco at Taco Bell.

Shit...now I'm hungry. Guess where I'm going?