Fyrewurks

A while back I panicked over losing my long-standing onetimesone.com domain name, well it turns out I didn’t lose it after all!  I’m really not sure what happened, but I did a whois, went to the site of the owner that was listed, it was a domain company (with a different name than who I [...]

Outside is a collection of links and/or articles I’ve found interesting recently. It was a week of sound & vision.  Vision: three fantastic designers (Naz Hamid, Frank Chimero, and Jason Santa Maria) urged us to do more with fonts and took us to El Dorado, Atlantis, and the moon in Lost World’s Fairs.  And Kitsune [...]

Today the design community is all aflutter over Lost World’s Fairs, a site featuring three, well, fairs of lost worlds past and future: “El Dorado” by Jason Santa Maria, “Atlantis” by Frank Chimero, and “The Moon” by Naz Hamid.  And here comes the exciting part, these gorgeous designs (which are exciting in themselves) use fonts [...]

Pavel Fuksa has offered up five amazing, free wallpapers over at Kitsune Noir in the style of vintage Czechoslovakian communist posters, along with descriptions and translations of each. I was really torn about which one to sport first, so I saved them all and will likely switch them out in the next month.  Here’s the one that [...]

Outside is a collection of links and/or articles I’ve found interesting recently. Glenn Kenny describes The Eastwood Pass: …certain critics, so thoroughly enamored of Eastwood—not just Eastwood the director, but Eastwood the man, the myth, the legend—are just so thoroughly enamored that they’ll ignore his films’ many, many, many shortcomings. To this accusation I can [...]

This past week I’ve had a ton of theme ideas and have really enjoyed making the ones I’ve had time to do - in fact, I think I may shift gears and work on design more than anything else for a while because I do enjoy it so much. I also want the themes on this [...]

Yesterday I was trying to come up with t-shirt designs for Tasty Tulsa and I ended up giving myself a long-needed crash course in vectors.  I wound up with… cupcakes! I’m using a series of cupcakes in the shirt design, but am offering two of them here as free cupcake clip art – since these will be [...]