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TIM BURTON EXHIBIT AT LACMA

TIM BURTON EXHIBIT AT LACMA

  Last night I went to see the Tim Burton exhibit at  LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). I am admittedly a horrible LACMA member, having all this time to go see the show and I wait until closing week. The exhibit drew an interesting crowd, a mixture of gallery snobs, hipsters and pop punk [...]

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G IS FOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER

G IS FOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER

     is for Graphic Designer is an excerpt from the article “What People Don’t Get About My Job: From A(rmy Soldier) to Z(ookeeper)” published on The Atlantic’s website. The Atlantic asked their readers to explain what it is that people don’t get or appreciate about their jobs.  The Atlantic received such a large response that they decided [...]

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A QUICK AND COMPREHENSIVE TYPE GUIDE

A QUICK AND COMPREHENSIVE TYPE GUIDE

    This infographic, “A Quick & Comprehensive Type Guide” was created by a fellow that goes by the name NOODLOR, I haven’t been able to find a website to give credit but if someone knows it or finds it please let me know so I can add a link to this persons page. Although [...]

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ANIMATED TYPOGRAPHY

ANIMATED TYPOGRAPHY

The very first form of writing was the creation of tallies by carving notches in wood, bone, and stone refered to as mnemonic writing. From the stone age we move forward in time to the creation of symbolic communication systems where we spanned from pictographic glyphs which represented an object or an objective situation to ideographic glyphs which represented directly [...]

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