I love this quote. It’s definitely one of my favorites, and a small reminder that when disaster strikes, there is often a great thing or two that result, if you look for it. Looking for it is key.
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John LeMasney (lemsy) is an artist, graphic designer, and technology creative. He is located in beautiful Nelson County, VA, but works remotely with ease. Contact him at: lemasney@gmail.com to discuss your next creative project.
If you see someone making a statement of supposed fact based entirely on personal experience, let them know that it makes them look like an idiot. Cite studies, or it’s only your own personal truth.
It’s funny. With some fonts, there is an ‘i’ in team. At least when you modify the nodes in the A a bit. I was inspired by this guy.
Sam Pinola, a longtime friend and multiple project collaborator, recently approached me with a sketch request, in this case, a collaboration about his band brand for “Ghosts in the Valley”:
“Hey could you help me work up a ghosts logo that looked like this?”
with an attachment as follows:
and so, I went and found, downloaded and installed about 20 fonts, opened Inkscape, placed the band name in both all caps and mixed case in several fonts and configurations, and finally came down to six that I felt spoke to the direction that Sam gave. So, Sam, what should we do next? Do these go in the right direction? What will we do for the oval emblem? Will we introduce a color palette? Will we manufacture a chrome effect? What’s next?
I’m always excited when I can get my inbox down to 100 messages or less. I don;t do it often, but when I do, I dance a little inside my head. It should not be nearly so exciting.
This is a series of wordmarks I’m working on to help brand a new venture called Act for School Libraries (Act4SL). I love the idea: advocacy for media expertise in school libraries so that transliteracy can be fostered in one of the most important places possible: school libraries. This is a work in progress, essentially just begun, and therefore has some roughness to it. That said, I love the directions that it is going in!