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Rio 2016 Logo

Posted by on Jan 6, 2011 in My Business Adventures | 0 comments

Check out the new logo they unveiled for the Rio 2016 Olympics. What do you think? I like it. At first it looked like a baby pacifier to me but it only bears a small resemblance to that. Otherwise it’s very fresh & spirited…everything I feel like that culture entails. The more I stare at it the more I appreciate it in fact. The letters of...

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Hello Kitty

Posted by on Jan 6, 2011 in Design Finds, Toys | 0 comments

A friend linked me to this Hello Kitty post with all these new twists based off of manga or comic book heroes. Kinda cool I guess, but I’m not sure who they’re trying to target now? Is there a growing market for comic-reading girls now? Or are they hoping to catch a new audience of male vinyl collectors? The Hit Girl and Doraemon version is...

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Type quick tips

Posted by on Jan 5, 2011 in Design Finds, My Business Adventures, Typography | 0 comments

This is a great collection of tips of web typography tips. Some of these I actually wasn’t aware of. Hard to keep track of the growing flexibility of web type these days. While my interest in typography has been steadily increasing for both online work and in print, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with it for web work. Good typography is like...

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For free or not for free?

Posted by on Jan 3, 2011 in How To, My Business Adventures | 0 comments

I thought this post “For free or not for free” to be a good summary of the challenges a young designer might face getting into the marketplace. It’s really tough. I was lucky enough to have had the chance to make my mistakes stepping into design while employed…so I took my lumps at someone else’s expense. It was an opportunity...

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Coolest Business Card

Posted by on Dec 31, 2010 in Design News, Marketing, My Business Adventures | 0 comments

I don’t typically enter design contests, even though I know I should. But since his “Coolest Business Card” contest put on by the Hawaii Business Magazine didn’t really obligate me to much beyond just sending them my card, I figured why not. Turns out I ended up winning after all! How about that? Free $100 Italian dinner...

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