Articles and Other Writings
Once in a while I like to put away my camera and instead exercise my writing skills. Here you’ll find my sometimes successful, oftentimes flimsy, attempts to put my words down on paper. Well, not quite paper, but you get the point. Ciao.
Get the Look: A Design Guide Series
“One of the most difficult aspects of designing is taking that first step: when you know what style you would like to achieve, but you just don’t know where to start. We’ve all been there at one time or another, thinking to ourselves ‘what colors should I use?’, ‘what fonts would work best?’, and ‘what are some elements of the style I want?’”
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Color Forecast 2005
“About a year ago, I had the self-righteous idea to ‘forecast’ the in colors of 2004. What I thought most people would simply brush off as “some random designer’s questionable hunch” wound up being quite a hit, and after many emails from supporters hoping for a 2005 edition, I decided to assuage their request.”
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Color Forecast 2004
“A brand new year is only a week away, and with it three hundred and sixty-five days worth of evolution in design. Sure, when the clock strikes midnight to announce January 1, 2004, everyone isn’t just going to morph and start designing differently than they did the day before, but the embarkment into a new year definitely symbolizes a step forward into an untraveled world where new styles and trends are going to be born (or, in many cases, reborn).”