Musings

We take precautions to stop people from robbing our possessions – but regularly and willingly let ourselves be robbed of time.

Since the earliest days, web page design has basically been on a grid. Some web designers are now beginning to tug at these constrictions.

A whopping 1.9 billion tourism dollars are spent in Victoria every year – a city of just 350,000 residents. From a communications standpoint, this means rows and rows of 4” by 9” Rack Cards at visitor kiosks throughout the city. A friend recently visited the main Tourism Victoria kiosk at the waterfront and grabbed a …

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I recently completed a new logo design for the Open Gate Church in Victoria. I made nearly a dozen draft logo designs with open doors and gates of various kinds. But the final design ended up being a visual metaphor. The three rings in this logo depict the initials of the Open Gate Church (O …

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This fall I have had the privilege of bringing on a talented design intern, Kyle Wheeler, one day a week.

Recently, we launched a new website for Bopoma Villages, a remarkable charity that empowers families and communities in rural Zimbabwe. Bopoma Villages is one of (if not the only) charitable organization working in the mountainous Zaka region, an area with more than 100,000 people. The original Bopoma Villages website had nearly 60 pages of content, …

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With a three-year-old and a nearly-six-year-old at home, I read dozens if not hundreds of children’s books per month. From a design perspective, most of these books are problematic: awkward font choices; poor use of white space; shoddy interface between text and image. But a few illustrators employ a captivating aesthetic style and brilliant sense …

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It didn’t happen right away, but over the past seven years of doing graphic design work, I’ve come to appreciate how typography has more impact on design than I ever imagined.

Since much of my week is in front of a computer, I try to make it a practice to go completely screen-free one day a week.

Stock photography often does more harm than good. The images tend to be too perfect, too contrived, more plastic than real.