Archive for December, 2006

I was cleaning out my bookshelf today, and found a Business 2.0 from April 2000 squeezed between some Print Magazines. The year 2000 was the at the height of the dot-com bubble, the same year where Super Bowl XXXIV featured seventeen dot-com companies that each paid over $2 million for a 30-second spot and...
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If you haven’t run across this link as yet, you might find it to be of assistance in the future. It’s a site that hosts nearly 5,000 corporate logos and brand marks in vector format. While I don’t know the legality of this site (thus, it could be taken down any day), it is...
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In a trip to Wal-Mart this evening I noticed something was different as I scanned the shelves for groceries. The product packaging on many long-familiar products was different. I even noticed some shelves with old and new product side-by-side where they had just switched to this new type of packaging. Could this obvious shift...
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It’s true, I’ve got a foot in the Apple world and the PC world. Because I’ve worked as an in-house graphic designer for tech companies over the past 6+ years, I’ve spent most of time using a PC to do graphic design work. I’ve found that companies who have a small design staff require...
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Since I recently discovered that I’m an egosurfer, I thought I’d share something I found while egosurfing. When googling my name on Google Images, the 4th image showed another guy named Brad McCall who lives in Montana, and runs McCall Development. Since my Dad was a General Contractor most his life, I wanted to...
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My thought today: Can you tell what’s on someone’s mind by what they’ve been bookmarking? See if you can figure out what I’ve been thinking about by looking at a dozen of my most recent bookmarks: Flipper NationI’m a huge fan of anything HGTV, and recently I’ve also been watching a lot of shows...
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I was sitting in a doctor’s office the other day and the only magazine that wasn’t too “girly” for me to look at was In Style Magazine. But as a designer, anywhere you can find a chance to scope out good design, it’s worth the time. On page 178 of their January 2007 issue...
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My friend Jonathan has been working on getting me to put together a new design for a custom snowboard for myself. He found a local manufacturer named Revolution that offers a design your own snowboard option. In fact, I think the snowboard that I currently ride was manufactured by them. I don’t recall exactly,...
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I read this in a recent press release: MyFamily.com, Inc., the leading online network for connecting families across distance and time, today announced that it is changing its name to The Generations Network, Inc., effective immediately. The company will continue to serve families online through its portfolio of leading brands and websites. Hu? The...
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Here’s something I’ve been noticing a lot lately, haven’t you? I call it Pixel Wallpaper, while I think most of the web calls it “Pixel Patterns” (or even “Atari Style Wallpaper”). Forget that wallpaper of the past, you know those nasty repeated gifs cut out from a photo or grabbed from a 3D texture...
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