June 23rd, 2009

I was asked earlier this month to do a custom die cut flyer for Kylie Minogue’s performance at the Hollywood Bowl and I accepted the job with great enthusiasm. I love graphic design because I enjoy problem solving and designing a custom, two-sided die cut flyer is about as fun as it gets in the realm of [...]
Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Die Cut, Flyer, Hollywood Bowl, Kylie Minogue
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June 11th, 2009

Today my eight year-old daughter decided that our cat, Lucy, needed a helmet. I clearly expressed that I was against the idea but then she informed me that she had already “done some measurements” and the cat was fine so I figured I’d green light the feline helmet project.
The initial prototype was, essentially, an empty tissue [...]
Tags: Lucy, My Kid
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May 26th, 2009

My mom barely tolerated the punk rock flyers that were plastered up on the walls of my bedroom in the mid-1980s. The large full-color, hyper-realistic posters of Boston, Pink Floyd and sports heros were slowly replaced by two-dimensional, high-contrast 8.5″ x 11″ black and white photocopies for punk shows that covered my bedroom like wallpaper. I was totally [...]
Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Blink-182
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April 13th, 2009

I’ve been doing tour admats for Kid Rock (Mr. Ritchie) since 2007 so I wasn’t surprised when I received a request from his management last Friday to create some art for his home town show at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan on July 17. The catch was that they would like to see art as soon [...]
Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Comerica Park, Detroit, Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Michigan
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April 2nd, 2009

“Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.” – Henry Chinaski, Barfly
Tags: Borrego Springs, California, Chicago, Illinois, Las Vegas, Mexican Food, Nevada, Ocotillo Wells, San Diego
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March 15th, 2009

The joke in my home is that the missus’ version of camping is staying at a motel that doesn’t have room service so I’m determined to expose my daughter to the outdoors while I can still make her go against her will. Luckily, she voluntarily went along with me on a father and daughter camping [...]
Tags: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Mountain Wash, Buttes Canyon, Buttes Pass Road, Colorado Desert, Desert Lookout, International Space Station, Kite, My Kid, The Slot
Posted in Family & Friends, Hiking | 3 Comments »
March 12th, 2009

I created some JumboTron screens for the USA Sevens rugby tournament held at Petco Park in San Diego, California back in February. The client had me make a eight screens with “Vote For MVP”, “Send A Line To Your Valentine” and “Guess The Attendance” among others. All of them encouraged those in the stadium to whip out their [...]
Tags: JumboTron, USA Sevens
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March 5th, 2009

2006 American Idol season five winner, Taylor Hicks, is a very smart man. How do I know that? Because he hired the management team who hired me to create the look for his 2009 tour admat. *wink*
Apparently someone important somewhere liked it and it has now become the cover for his latest single, “What’s Right Is Right”. Yay [...]
Tags: iTunes, Taylor Hicks, What's Right Is Right
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February 7th, 2009

The weather forecast said 10″ of snow was expected in the local mountains so B2K and I planned a long snow hike in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. We left San Diego, California early so that we could beat the rush of families to the mountains only to find that there was just a couple inches of snow and warm [...]
Tags: Calexico, California, Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, El Centro, Mexico, Ocotillo, Old Plank Road, San Diego, Snow, Yuha Desert
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January 26th, 2009

Before I was a writer my first job at the UCSD Guardian was to submit an illustration of a personal computer — which I did by hand with a Sharpie. It was accepted by the editor and ran with some story about emerging personal computer use (yes, I’m that old). A zillion years ago in college [...]
Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Jason Mraz, Neil Diamond
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