Category Archives: Misc
So You’re Stuck In a Rut. What Now?
Like it or not, everyone occasionally comes to a point where they just lose interest in doing their normal everyday work. Some call it “burnout”, some call it “designer’s block”; regardless of what it’s called, it’s a fact of life as a creative professional that some days you just won’t be “feeling it”. Despite this [...]
My Ultimate Mac Software Setup
I got my first Mac, a unibody 13″ Macbook (aluminum, just before they became Macbook Pros), a little over a year ago. In that time, I’ve fallen in love with the quality of the hardware, the usefulness of Mac OS X, and – especially – the software available for the platform. In this post I’ll [...]
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Attitude
Listening to a talk by Merlin Mann and John Gruber, I heard the following quote from Walt Disney: We don’t make movies to make money. We make money so we can make more movies. Whatever you do – whether you’re a designer, a writer, a coder, anything – this needs to be your mindset. You [...]
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Old Fascinations and New Sensations
Like many Americans, I spent last week visiting my family for Thanksgiving. Since moving to Miami put me within driving distance of my parents for the first time since their move many years ago, I brought back with me a few boxes of books and knick-knacks I had accumulated during high school. The boxes work [...]
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Perfect Apostrophes and Freelance Work
When you start working for yourself, it’s all too easy to tell yourself that you’re not quite ready to do real work. You endlessly re-work your personal site and your portfolio, you read everything you can get your hands on that even mentions your field, and you study endlessly in the hope of one day [...]
Living in Nowhere-Land