Well Put

Why do designers think that they can improve an existing typeface by cutting pieces off, adding arbitrary bits to it or generally messing with details? Would you walk better if you cut your toes off? If a typeface doesn’t work for a specific word, look for another one that does, There are more than 100k fonts out there, most of them carefully made and in themselves perfect.
— Erik Spiekermann

Thought of the Day:

What is worth more to the average person:

A painting worth $100,000 hung over the couch

– or –

$100,000 framed and hung over the couch?

Quote of the day...

"YOU teach people how to treat YOU."

–heard on 30 Rock, possibly Oprah

Part of the Design Puzzle

Cooper's mantra was that good design is good design, regardless of the medium, a position Strausfeld has shared with her current colleagues. "I don't like technology because I don't like to talk about technology," says Pentagram partner Paula Scher. "As soon as somebody says 'Flash' or 'HTML,' I don't want to have the discussion. But what Lisa told me about Muriel was spectacular. Now I can avoid that discussion because it's no more relevant than knowing how color separations work."

Full article:

http://www.fastcompany.com/design/2009/featured-story-lisa-strausfeld#mod-header-content-lisa-strausfeld

Joke of the Day

"P.S. This is what part of the alphabet would look

like if Q & R were eliminated"

– Mitch Hedberg

RIP Mitch

Quote of the day:

One man's DaVinci is another woman's flea market garden gnome.

– Caliber Creative

http://www.calibercreative.com/

Neon is the new black.

How could I have lived my whole life without realizing how to trick out my shoes? White shoes... Neon laces... bet yall cant wait to see these boyz in real life.

Water Color

This was from a illustration class in college. There was a live model, but we were encouraged to be abstract and experiment.

Dragosaur

This is a painting I made one day while I was bored. For some reason squirrels appear a lot in my paintings. I am starting to think it has to do with the fact that they are one animal that you can still see on a day to day basis. Like birds they are part of a city. They are – for better or worse – able to coexist with humans in the city, although more so in the suburbs.

The Beginning

I am creating Designer Vomit as a place to post my experiments. Some times I just need to create things for no real reason at all. Sometimes it is important to create conceptual work; sometimes I just want to throw a bunch of stuff on a page until it looks good. Maybe, some where in the deep recesses of my mind their is a purpose to these "Designer Vomits". And then again maybe not...