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Brand Dilution

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:16:00 -0600

Hey man, look. I’m glad you’re trying out the whole blogging thing, really.

You began a huge campaign over the last week wherein you’re letting the world in on 40 snippets of mostly great design advice. I’m enjoying it, truly. But hey – quick note: Consolidate! You’ve got your personal brand all over the place and it’s become really, really confusing to handle. It’s the internet equivalent of repeatedly moving your primetime TV show to a different time slot on different networks.

Lets get down to it: for the love of god, stop using Cargo Collective as your blogging platform. It is not one. Pick a (real) blogging platform and stick with it. As of this writing you’ve got the “Lent Marathon” running on a Tumblr blog, iframe’d into an increasingly long Cargo Collective entry.

While this is a little bit deceptive (who uses iframes anymore, anyway), its mostly just confusing. I’ve got your feed coming in through my Tumblr dashboard, and that seems to work alright. I also subscribe to your old & busted RSS feed, which you seem to be migrating your posts back to. I mentioned this to you a while back, but your posts are still coming through in my RSS reader as enormous walls of text.

I realize that this may be a small use case (RSS readers and all), but I’m trying to look out for you, man. Down the road, when you want to show your kids your 32 totally hilarious blog posts about design ideas, wouldn’t it be great if they were in some sort of reasonable format?

With love, your friend, Paul.

Target Field + Fog (via stublag)

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:43:20 -0600

Target Field + Fog

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"Good luck in life. You’ll go far. Unlike Joe over there. Just kidding Joe!"

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:10:00 -0600

“Good luck in life. You’ll go far. Unlike Joe over there. Just kidding Joe!”

- The strangest goodbye from the same co-worker that introduced herself as “Hello Paul, you’ll hate me”.

What a job.

Graphic Design Referenced A truly fantastic book from the folks...

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:13:00 -0600

Graphic Design Referenced

A truly fantastic book from the folks over at UnderConsideration.

An Internship

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:51:00 -0600

Thats the great thing about working in Flash. You don’t have to worry about what it looks like in different browsers.

In the interview, I was told this after showing my own portfolio and explaining how much went into it. Despite being diametrically opposed to this way of thinking, I smiled politely and continued try my hardest to get the job.

There were several factors in play at the time that made me accept these flaws. These factors centered around fear. Fear that I needed an internship to graduate. Fear that for some reason this is my last shot at doing so. But hey, I said, maybe they will let me illustrate sometime.

Spoiler alert: they won’t.

I walked into the position being okay with working in Flash, even though I knew I didn’t enjoy it. To be fair the first 3 months were about 70% Flash, 30% XHTML. Out of the gate the projects were not what I anticipated, and involved very little creative contribution. I realize that many internship positions operate this way, and that I’m in no position to complain. What I’m getting at is that I have no one to blame but myself.

If I have learned anything from this internship, it is that I should stand up for what I believe in during interviews. Since taking this internship in August, I have interviewed at two other places around Minneapolis. The first was a total train wreck, but the second went exceedingly well. Instead of swallowing my pride and saying I was “alright” with working in Flash, I stood my ground.

“No thanks” I said, “I’d prefer to stick to web development.”

Blue Bear Photography Just finished up a new identity for...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:33:04 -0600

Blue Bear Photography

Just finished up a new identity for someone at work’s childrens photography studio.

Big ol’ sketchbook Finally getting around to taking...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:16:29 -0600

Big ol’ sketchbook

Finally getting around to taking pictures of some of these.

Nap Time Challenge This is a poster that I made for an event at...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:00:00 -0600

Nap Time Challenge

This is a poster that I made for an event at the WBSC that was all about the appreciation of napping. Activities were to include public nap mapping, and a sleepy art slideshow.

Shackleton's Fifty Below

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:23:00 -0600

This six-pack of beer was just put together as an assignment for Graphic Design 3. It involved compiling, printing and putting together 7 bottles and the 6-pack they’re sitting in.

The entire idea behind this fictional beer was to take the “this beer is cold” schtick and run with it. I always thought it was hilarious that beer companies advertise how cold their beers are while in reality, that part is up to you. On the back of the bottles the copy goes on about how the beer was brewed in Antarctica, which is completely impossible.

STUBLOG After sitting on my old blog template for far too long,...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:26:43 -0600

STUBLOG

After sitting on my old blog template for far too long, I finally got around to putting together an all new theme. This process took way longer than anticipated because I mocked up and (nearly) put together something like 7 different templates over the last year.

Indecision is brutal.

Audio

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:11:19 -0600

@zombiehat Just drew a new icon for Kaitlin’s twitter...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0600

@zombiehat

Just drew a new icon for Kaitlin’s twitter account.

Happy Fall, Internet. Leaf macro from the walk to...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:51:00 -0500

Happy Fall, Internet.

Leaf macro from the walk to Kaitlin’s.

Its probably time for a new rear tire. But even so, those...

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:06:00 -0500

Its probably time for a new rear tire.

But even so, those Bontrager tires were really nice.

MPLS to SF Finally got around to uploading the rest of the...

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:51:00 -0500

MPLS to SF

Finally got around to uploading the rest of the photos from our trip out west.

Rough totals from the trip:

Miles driven: ~3,400
Elapsed time: 13 days
Record shops visited: ~13
Records purchased: 12
Skateparks visited: 14
Skateparks actually ridden: 10
Times rock climbing: 3
Times paid for camping: 3.5
Times pulled over: 1
Parking lots hung out in: ~6
Times slept in car: .7
Ramen bricks eaten: ~20
Boxes of Wheat Thins: 3
Times pissed off in Vegas: 1
Photos taken by me: 611

Check out the rest of the photos here.

UHaulorama Taken in Moab, UT. More to follow. (notice the...

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:55:00 -0500

UHaulorama

Taken in Moab, UT. More to follow.

(notice the totally boss sunglasses on Sacajawea)

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Shadow Falls Panorama (view the big version)

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:31:00 -0500

Shadow Falls Panorama

(view the big version)

Minneapolis to LA to SF On incredibly short notice, Ryan and I...

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:13:00 -0500

Minneapolis to LA to SF

On incredibly short notice, Ryan and I are driving a UHaul of yet-to-be-determined size from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, then up to San Francisco to fly home. We leave tomorrow night. As outlined in the map above, I’m not really sure what is happening between Nebraska and California. I would guess that it will involve plenty of skateparks and probably rock climbing.

Again, I am not sure.

I might have done this. Taken in a non-descript bathroom

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:58:00 -0500

I might have done this.

Taken in a non-descript bathroom

Self Portrait (via stublag)

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:36:00 -0500

Self Portrait

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