JamesB's Posts
Sunday, August 05, 2007
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Posted by: JamesB at 08:19 PM
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A long time ago … at a university far, far away, I took a class with a great professor that I will refer to as Dr. C. He was the kind of instructor that could hold your total attention for hours. He was brilliant, witty, entertaining, and wasn’t afraid to tell the truth. In fact, you couldn’t pay students to skip Dr. C’s lectures, and since it was such a large class, students that were not even taking the course would occasionally slip in… continue reading
Monday, June 25, 2007
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Posted by: JamesB at 06:15 PM
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When I was a kid, my hobby was going to theme parks. I would learn what I could about the various theme parks around the country and would spend the months leading up to summer vacation convincing some member of my family that we needed to take a trip. Cincinnati, St. Louis, Atlanta, Orlando, Anaheim … were all “A-list” destinations. I collected theme park maps like some kids collected baseball cards. continue reading
Sunday, May 20, 2007
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Posted by: JamesB at 05:50 PM
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As visual designers, what we do can be distilled down to one word: communicate. In essence, that is what our clients pay us for; they have a message and we translate it into a visual design so that others can receive it. Think about it. Whether you are being paid to design a magazine ad, a Web site, or a book cover, your job is to convey what your client has to say. What you do as a designer is present the information in a way that will be… continue reading
Monday, May 14, 2007
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Posted by: JamesB at 05:20 PM
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Whenever I write or lecture, I ask myself the following question: If I were going to evaporate in a puff of smoke tomorrow, what is the most important thing I could tell them? That may seem a strange way to approach writing, but it cuts down on the trivial, boring stuff.
So with that in mind, if I were about to evaporate, I would want to pass on a few practices that might help you be a successful designer.
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