Speaking at Type Directors Club December 10th

Wednesday, 12.09.09 at 2:34 pm
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Tom and I will be speaking at the Type Directors Club, this Thursday (December 10th @ 6pm). It’s shaping up to be a pretty amusing, if not enlightening stack of stories & work. Don’t tell us if you are going to be there; nothing freaks me out more than knowing some faces within the faceless […]

Photoshop: Prep & Color Scanned Drawings

Monday, 10.26.09 at 12:48 pm
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For years now, we have been using and teaching a slightly more powerful approach to digitally coloring scanned sketches/drawings/artwork (art) in Adobe Photoshop. The de-facto technique for coloring scanned art in Photoshop is to switch the document color mode to ‘RGB Color,’ set the blending mode of the layer containing your artwork to ‘Multiply’, and […]

MPS Digital Photography: Thesis Exhibition

Tuesday, 10.20.09 at 9:42 pm
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Ever wish you could master everything related to digital photography? There is a place for that. This week, the graduating class of the MPS Digital Photography department at the School of Visual Arts will be exhibiting their work in NYC. I am grateful for the opportunity to be involved in the program, and I am […]

Lent Space: You know, for art

Thursday, 10.08.09 at 1:24 pm
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Every morning for several months, I get out of the Canal Street 1 stop and I walked past a fenced in area between Canal and Grand. I was curious about what was brewing behind those closed fences but I could never quite get a good look. Then a few weeks ago the fences came down […]

Baking the Block

Tuesday, 09.15.09 at 3:52 pm
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Today is my 1-year anniversary at the Block.  It’s also dangerously close to a few Block birthdays.  In celebration of these monumentus events, I decided to bake a cake that (kind of) looks like our logo.  Also it incorporates our odd love of oranges and it’s sitting on a wood cutting board so we get the wood […]

Robot Stuff on Etsy: Part 5 (wedding edition)

Tuesday, 08.04.09 at 12:46 pm
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Today is a wonderful day the block. Leo, one of our own, got himself hitched and we couldn’t be more thrilled. So you can imagine my excitement when I came across this on etsy. This adorable painting clocks in at a miniscule 2½” × 3½” but it is really quite beautiful even at such a […]

Waist deep and no life guard is on duty

Monday, 07.20.09 at 4:58 pm
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When faced with the task of finding an image for a comp, I usually head on over to Flickr.  The problem is that I inevitably get side-tracked by all the shiny, shiny pictures. So it’s time to focus on specific pools of photos.  Today, I came across 2 really great ones, Masters of the Words and Tattoos […]

Robot Stuff on Etsy: Part 4

Wednesday, 06.17.09 at 5:53 pm
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Every once in a while I’ll come by some product that I must email out to the entire studio and beg them to get it for the office.  I think I may have just stumbled upon such a product.  Behold, Lime Robot Love Soap by LoveLeeSoaps. The soap is made from glyerin and shea butter […]

Microsoft Biffs the Bing Logotype

Thursday, 06.04.09 at 1:58 pm
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I met Bill Gates once… and I didn’t ask him the one question I wanted to. The newly introduced “Bing” logotype (and Armin’s post about it at underconsideration.com) is yet another reminder that I dropped the ball. With the amount of money and time spent building and branding their updated search experience, bing.com, how can […]

Tshirt Formerly Known as…

Wednesday, 05.06.09 at 3:31 pm
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Muchos grandes to Chris (who is not legally affiliated with Chop Shop in any way) for articulately photographing what we could not say. I like the photo very much.