Chicago Designers

February 24th, 2010 / 9:38 pm / 9 Comments

Thumbs Up! Raise your glass.

A short while ago, I was featured on Minimal Sites along with a group of other designers from Chicago. In my blog post, I mentioned a few of the great creatives here in the windy city and I wanted to expand a bit on that idea. Chicago is ...

Featured on Minimal Sites

January 20th, 2010 / 4:25 pm / 1 Comment

My website has been featured on Minimal Sites. I'm joining a group of great Chicago-based designers and people such as Mig Reyes, Kim Knoll, Sage Brown, Ryan Hammond and Faust. There's other great sites on display at Minimal Sites. Check them out!

Best Fonts of 2009

January 8th, 2010 / 8:29 pm / 2 Comments

I've gathered a set of websites that show some of the best typefaces released in 2009. This past year saw quality typography becoming more and more centric in design across the board...especially in web design. Of course, great typefaces were released by well-known sellers like FontShop and My Fonts, but even ...

The Chicago Poster

January 8th, 2010 / 3:36 am / 0 Comments

For their annual holiday party, the Society for Typographic Arts looked to their members community for donations that could be auctioned off with proceeds towards the Jack Weiss Student Scholarship. I was lucky enough to be asked to help. Some members donated items that were already produced, but I was part of a group ...

Typography on the Web

November 13th, 2009 / 5:31 pm / 0 Comments

Lets face it, working with type when designing for the web sucks. It's a HUGE pain and often involves work-arounds like creating images, css image replacement or greedy javascript plug-ins. There are a large number of solutions out there that designers can use to help with getting away from the standard Arial, Verdana and Georgia. ...

Recent Awards

November 4th, 2009 / 4:20 am / 0 Comments

I've been a pretty busy person in the last few months. Not only have I tackled a large kitchen remodel that lasted over a month, but I've been working pretty hard at establishing myself as a designer. Although I'm getting well situated as an independent designer, I have to note that I've also been working ...

5 Secrets from 86 Notebooks

October 27th, 2009 / 2:44 am / 0 Comments

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RMS Holding Group Logo

August 31st, 2009 / 7:55 pm / 2 Comments

About the Company

RMS Holdings Group is a company the purchases properties at a low price, rehabs them to RMS standards, and then releases these properties to the public as rental units. This main characteristic is the foundation from which I drew inspiration for each logo idea.

Characteristics:

The mark to the left of “RMS Holdings Group” represents ...

The new IKEA

August 31st, 2009 / 5:43 pm / 0 Comments

From Futura to Verdana.

Since I heard about IKEA switching from Futura to Verdana, I ran through a variety of reactions from disgust to complete understanding, back to disgust and finally just accepting it. As a designer, I have to say that Verdana is completely inferior to Furura as a typeface. Like all the articles have ...