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• Commented on Wired US's Design Issue: A Preview
  Nancy, She left her drawing paper out! Fair game! Food, toys....hey...kid's gotta learn. Thanks for the wonderful comments guys. More TK!...
• Posted WIRED.COM Art Director to Job Board
  Interactive Media & Technology Design  Wired is seeking a Sr. Interactive Designer to join its Interactive Design team in San Francisco. This person will be a part of a multi-disciplinary digital creative team focused on envisioning and designing content experiences...
• Commented on Amid Capeci, 1961-2012
  Just completely devastating is the only description that comes close. I have know Amid for years and was lucky enough to serve on the SPD board with him as well. He was truly one of my very favorite people in...
• Posted Heed the Call to Grids
  Having buried my desk in old yellow newsprint, scraped toner, paper fiber dust and done my best to make 2 color printers here feel like old whipped mules in the process: Download the official call for entries for Pub 46....
• Posted Have You Been Training? to Grids
  It's coming......
• Posted Chasing Beauty to Grids
  Hey all,I wanted to take a moment and share a non-mag project I worked on that just hit stores.My friend, photographer Richard Phibbs was having his first book published and asked me to do all the typography for the book....
• Commented on Still More Inspiration, or...???
  Also just kind of a bummer that they can't be INSPIRED by the original cover as opposed to just wanting to make a carbon copy of it. Like, what other objects are associated with high school that also have type...
• Commented on Why We Love Albert Watson, Pt. 1
  *cough*...uh....Wesley Snipes was shot by Dan Winters...*cough*. (better change that before Dan finds you...)...
• Posted I. FREAKING. LOVE. HALLOWEEN to Grids
  Anyone who knows me pretty well is well aware of several of my obsessions: barbecue, wine, fighting, Van Halen...yadda yadda...just to name a few. Also in that list of obsessions (addictions?) would be... 1) Halloween--not at all strange to come...
• Commented on Typomag: A design library must-have
  Dang. Yes please!...
• Commented on Just Add Water
  You've got to be kidding. Paint by numbers for magazine design?...
• Posted Rare Specimen No. 7 <br/>Megan Caponetto to Grids
  "We're going to need to call Megan for this."That comes up often here at Men's Health, as it did at Best Life whenever brainstorming sessions produced a potentially cool (crazy?) idea...that we had no idea how on God's green Earth...
• Commented on The iPad: "everybody needs to calm down"
  Pre-rendered is not publication. Genius. Someone said it. The video game comparison is brilliant. How many times have we seen incredible video game commercials only to get the thing home and it's about 50% of what we saw advertised? (of...
• Posted Breakfast With Mr. Lois:<br/>Part 4 to Grids
  Today is the day! Er, tonight is the night! Please join George Lois and Scott Dadich tonight for their talk at FIT. iPads, the MoMa, Esquire, Newsstands as Strip Clubs, etc. Only a few tickets remain, so don't miss this...
• Posted Breakfast With Mr. Lois:<br/>Part 3 to Grids
  A real magazine is like a what?? (Thanks for making us nose our coffee, George.)Everyone better bring some dollar bills tomorrow night for his talk. Who knew F.I.T. had a champagne room......
• Posted Breakfast with Mr. Lois:<br/>Part 2 to Grids
  Are magazines dead? George weighs in after the jump, and next Tuesday, March 30th.Time (and tickets) are slipping away!...
• Posted Breakfast With Mr. Lois: <br/>Part 1 to Grids
  This week, Scott Dadich and George Lois met for breakfast at George's home in Manhattan to discuss the final preparations for their talk at FIT next Tuesday, March 30th. The lovely Nathalie Kirsheh (W Art Director and video goddess extraordinaire)...
• Commented on Overzealous with Photoshop?
  Heh. Kind of funny the only thing difference they are pointing out is the scar. Of course i can't help but think about all those moving covers people are demoing these days and how this kind of thing will evolve....
• Commented on March Madness!
  Very intense covers. I imagine there was a lot of heavy drinking and/or crying from the production department once they got wind of this idea. Incredible....
• Commented on Rare Specimen No. 4<br/>Flickr Flow
  oh. my. god. laughed out loud. I HIGHLY recommend everyone check out this project of theirs. They've done visual charts based on human body parts, structured to show what body parts are spoken about the most…based on genre of music....
• Posted LOIS + DADICH: 4 things you won't get fromYouTube to Grids
  As you may have already heard, George Lois has a new book out based on an exhibition of his work at the Museum of Modern art. On Tuesday, March 30th, in what is sure to be our Speaker Series event...
• Posted TONIGHT: Paul Sahre has a present for you. to Grids
  Yep. Just for you. Tonight. After his talk at the Helen Mills Theater.Paul has been doing a little spring cleaning as you can see and would like to pass the savings on to you."What could I get?" you ask?...
• Posted SAHRE + NYT to Grids
  Well as you may (or may not) know, Paul Sahre's Speak Easy talk is rapidly approaching next Tuesday, February 9th at The Helen Mills theater at 7 p.m.While most are familiar with Paul's book covers and posters, he is also...
• Posted PAUL SAHRE: Alien abduction attempts, the hairless hand, dead pig heads, boring sex and eating the dinosaur. to Grids
  The one and only Paul Sahre will be kicking of SPD's spring speaker series on Tuesday, February 9th at the Helen Mills Theater.According to Paul's site, he......is a graphic designer that works out of his own shitty office in New...
• Posted Men's Health to Grids
  Hey all, Thought I'd take a moment to share some of the new Men's Health work we've been doing since I have been given the reigns of this beast (this honkin' thing's circ is more than my last three mags...
• Commented on Command D
  Great post, Strav. Though it took me a few minutes to get past the fact that you typed the words "hand-made dinghy". (I know…mature much? Not really.) I definitely immediately picked the one you all ultimately decided upon. It just...
• Commented on Eat Cheap Eats
  TOTALLY love the idea of a cool bite of steak or a dish that looks "high-end"…with a freakin' spork in it. Go Nat!...
• Commented on Eat Cheap Eats
  Hmmmm. This is tough. Overall i like the NY Mag cover better…as a pretty cover with cool type. But which one gets across "Cheap Eats"? Seems like the only thing that says Cheap on the NYmag cover is…uh…the word Cheap....
• Posted Going (Nuclear) Green to Grids
  Hi guys. Well, as some of you know Best Life folded this year and i have been given the new charge of Design Director of Men's Health. I logged on to spd.org to share some new Men's Health work when...
• Posted Creature Feature Captain to Grids
  Thought you all might like to see one of the faces behind the judging.I snapped this pic of the Creature Feature captain...overseeing all pics of puppies, kitties, monkeys and ferocious sheep....