After several months of an abusive relationship with my Epson 1280 (and a borrowed sample of the same model from my friend Charlie), I broke down and purchased my first new printer in several years.
I decided on the Epson R1900, a massive beast of an ink-jet printer that allows for oversized paper (up to 13×19) [...]

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In case I’ve never said it, I love patterns. I love creating visual styles with the simple use of colours and shapes and how patterns themselves become logos for brands.
A recent sterling example of this approach is the Chocolate Research Facility, a Singapore-based sweets vendor.
The Dieline has a great write-up with lots of photos, but [...]

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It wouldn’t be the Christmas season if the spoofs weren’t rolling in.

Remember this one from last year?
via BuzzFeed »

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Every few years, McDonald’s changes their slogan. Remember “Have you had your break today?” A few years ago, we were slightly shocked when “I’m lovin’ it” appeared on the scene — after all, it is a bit of a colloquialism.
But recently, McDonald’s began rolling out new packaging to reflect the constantly-modern nature of the [...]

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Wow, they weren’t kidding! I awoke this morning to a gorgeous set of vintage soda packaging photographs. And some of these are classic, from the 1950s and 60s, mostly.
Oddly enough, I was just talking the other day about the new designs for Sprite, in which they’ve revived the “old” Sprite logo I knew so well [...]

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Politics is often like sports. Strategy, highlights, wins and losses, all closely linked to sport. And now we have trading cards!
Topps, a real-life actual maker of trading cards, is producing a set of cards to commemorate and celebrate the campaign of Barack Obama. His face is already on a bunch of useless crap, so why [...]

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Freelancing means half the time you’re an orphan, and half the time you’re Batman.

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