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Short on time? Here's the quick and fun way to draw and paint portraits using Paper by 53.
I'm often asked what my technique for drawing hair is. What follows is my answer to that question.
Learn how to use Paper by FiftyThree to draw blank faced portraits and landscapes on an iPad with retina display.
An experiment in humanizing the web — designer Michael Rose draws a portrait a day using an iPad and Paper by 53.
Two years ago on this day, I proposed to my wife Wendy by leading her on an Easter egg scavenger hunt.
Migrating Made Mistakes from a Wordpress powered website back to its static file roots using Jekyll.
My favorite thing about this Corn On Macabre 7-inch record is the use of vellum and metallic inks in the sleeve.
How 5 minutes spent creating an About.me profile nabbed me custom Moo business cards of my own design.
Glad to see improvements in the May 2011 Urban Outfitters catalog. Especially since I took a few issues with their typography last month.
I couldn't begin to tell you what the artwork in this emo record means. But silk screening lyrics on fabric scrapes is kind of cool.
How the rawness found in DIY released emo and hardcore records started my collecting addiction and influenced the usage of texture in my work as a graphic designer.
The typography in Urban Outfitters latest catalog has some serious readability issues.
Exploring what it means to develop a grid system that helps facilitate strong design with purpose.
As a designer we've all been there. When was the last time you got bored with a design and decided to just burn it and start anew?
The following are some of my experiences and observations transitioning from Palm to iOS after nearly 10 years of baggage.
Looks like I might actually get two iPhone 4's on launch day.
Apparently there is a bizarro version of me in Niagara County using scammed credit cards.
The Eviltron device, when setup properly, can land some convincing scares.
Quick impressions of the Palm Pre from a long time smartphone user.
Put a bird on it. Photographs of Wendy's bird cage tattoos and some ink splat trees on my arms.
Designing a book with Blurb was painless and having it printed was equaly enjoyable. I'm really happy with how my first photography book turned out.
Some things never change, a lengthy review of Animal Crossing City Folk.
Faulty logic boards, ambient sensors, and displays oh my!
A quick tutorial and time lapse video of how to assemble a wall sized poster using The Rasterbator.
Quick impressions of the film, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly.
Musically — RRIICCEE is fine, but not something I really want to see live again.
What I went through upgrading an iMac G5 to Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
Quick impressions of the new iPod classic 60GB.
The film Sunshine directed by Danny Boyle is science fiction without the big bang.
A Korean horror flick that reminded me of the Fatal Frame video game franchise.
My quick impressions of La Moustache — a French film about a dude shaving his mustache.
A short update on the status of my iPod 3G battery settlement claim.
My impressions of the film Half Nelson, starring Ryan Gosling.