While I continue to slog away at the Pile O' Work, here's this to keep you entertained: 25 reasons you might be a hardcore graphic/web designer: You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.... You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.... (everyone thinks they are a designer) The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.
Read MoreEver wonder how fonts are made?
Over at ilovetypography, there's a lovely article on the design process of a typeface: Newzald: From Moleskine to Market | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog: Go check it out, while I chew through a pile of work at the office.
Read MoreHappiest Audiobook of Our Lives
Wil Wheaton's latest book, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, is now out as an audiobook. If you've not had the chance to go and hear Wil read his stories live, this is the next best thing.
Read MoreBranches
So when I said I was raiding Christmas tree scraps -- I wasn't kidding. For reference, that's the pile of branches in the back of the Mini, and with a bundle of firewood. Go big or go home, I like to say. I might get more tomorow night, too.
It's not quite cutting mistletoe with a sickle at dawn while standing on one leg, but hey, I'm a modern pagan. And, there's no mistletoe growing within 25 miles of me -- yes, I've looked. But if you're local and you know of any, hip me to it, yes?
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Cheers!
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