A local Burlington organization (I'll leave names out of it, as it is not my intent to embarrass or harangue, merely to point out an instance of a sadly all-too-commonplace phenomenon) recently ran a radio ad, the "punchline" of which is a little boy telling his dad that "you throw like a girl." The "joke" [...]
Pulitzer shmulitzer I recently read two Pulitzer Prize winning novels, in an attempt to shore up my credibility as a semi-literate individual. The first one, Tinkers, is a little book that seemed to be right up my alley, but I couldn't even get through half of it. (Which is extremely rare — I tend to [...]
Philosophers have long loved grappling with paradoxes — paradox-grappling is like no other exercise for the intellect. Perhaps the most famous paradox of all — Zeno’s Paradox — actually has a lesson in it, even for those of us who don't usually grapple with such things. Zeno's Paradox Here is how Zeno’s paradox goes: the [...]
Adobe recently announced that its upcoming release of the popular (and industry standard) Creative Suite will have a new purchasing option. You will be able to subscribe on a monthly basis, and they will rent you a license to the software. This is, of course, good for designers without a lot of cash on-hand — [...]
A Sordid Past JavaScript has come a long way from its humble and (quite frankly) sketchy roots. From the start, circa 1995, JavaScript was the Frankenstein monster of web development tools — a sort of necessary evil cobbled together to do certain web development tasks, but never truly appreciated beyond this rudimentary utility. As a [...]
Getting Outside of Your Comfort Zone as a Designer As a designer (and I'm pretty sure this applies in all fields — I could write a similar treatise about being a musician), there are certain techniques and approaches that will come naturally to you, and certain genres and styles with which you will become intimately [...]
Sometimes you need a perfect circle in your design; sometimes you need an absolutely equilateral triangle; sometimes you need a spiral drawn with mathematical precision. In the days of yore, one needed compasses, protractors, and other medieval instruments in order to approach perfect geometries in design. Thankfully for the contemporary designer, computers are very good [...]
