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A small stage
I have been making these things. I am collecting them on a tumblr to see what they look like as a group. I am working on them at the...
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Produsage
There is this, in my view terribly misplaced, myth that while using off the shelf software is an unavoidable evil, everything that gets...
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Curly Things
Logotype for Mr. Tabby’s Spice Shop (“tekir” is “tabby” in Turkish) Handwritten fonts, script fonts, gothic letters, art deco, art...
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The old "scientific" stuff
I had to create a new tumblr site. Yes, had to, not wanted to. And floundering around in my hard drives for what to put in the damn thing...
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Indulging my graphic designer's heart
Sitting at home, not going out much - if at all - I am busy making visual identities. First I did the companion species thing, which is...
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Companion Species
The term “Companion Species” was coined by Donna Haraway who examined a very particular relationship between human beings and animals –...
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About Graphic Design
I decided to become a graphic designer in 1970 after seeing an exhibition of Polish theater posters. And although I found out very...
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So, as predicted…
I have had a whale of a time making things for the imaginary alpha.tribe RL store. No idea what this store is supposed to be all about at...
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alpha.tribe branding
And now for something completely different… Why would I do a ‘real life’ branding for alpha.tribe – a virtual fashion store? Answer:...
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From Azimuth to Cypher
Once upon a time there was a great free app called Mural.ly with which one could create boards. I assembled the material of a research...
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Symmetry pages
I guess a blog like this is also good for stuff that I have no occasion to put anyplace else. These were sketches that I made for a...
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Scrounging around for "minimal" things
Wandered off to one of my favorite hangouts, Vecteezy, to see what they have on offer that might inspire me. Do not let what they display...
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Scrounging around for minimalist stuff
I am still preoccupied with my building stuff in SL. How to improve on it, how to bring myself up to scratch. The complex mesh stuff is...
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Going back to minimal?
While I was putting together images for the new ShapeShifter 2012 site I re-rezzed some of the stuff that was on that sim in order to...
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The Symmetry book
Thinking of things I could do next, I keep coming back to graphic design. I made these pages a year ago for a project that was later...
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So – what next?
During these past few years that I was away from virtual worlds, it wasn’t just making things in virtual worlds that I lost interest in....
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There is a definite change
I am noticing it from my favorites on Flickr, which are mostly RL things. And what I put on flickr myself, for that matter. I seem to...
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Makes one think…
I have followed the recommendation of a colleague and bought Filter Forge. And so, here I am wondering about quite a few little things: I...
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Teeeee heeeee…
It is official people, I am now in the Hall of Fame of Data Visualization! Visual Complexity is the one place of all places where a data...
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The perils of teaching graphic design in the land of the Shapeshifters
The blog stats from yesterday have given me more food for thought. I am actually in the middle of some serious writing, and I am taking...
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