Hello again. As many of you may know, I have the luxury of having a pretty awesome career in design. It wasn’t always this way. It certainly was not my original intent, but as they say “wanna make God laugh, make a plan!” If you’ve been following this blog, you have read my thoughts regarding my 1 st 10 years in this business, my evolution into a design leader for major consumer product brands, and my recent revelation that some of my fan art had been used 20 years ago in the 2 nd Spider-Man movie. I’m not going to re-hash that topic again. I deleted my posts, and I’m done talking about it. I said I’m glad I could shrug that experience off, and I’m officially closing the topic. That said, I always had a complicated relationship with comics. I have been a fan since I was a child, and I always wanted to draw comics for a living. As I got much older, I realized that “making a living in comics” and “paying my bills and being a grown up” were two very incompatible states of exist...
I bought a Galaxy Tab about 3 weeks ago. I've had the chance to use it "in the wild" for a while. The main question I get asked about it is " why buy this device and not an ipad "? The 1st answer is that I travel a lot. Having a device that's small enough to fit into my pocket is optimal. I carry this thing with me everywhere. I'm writing this blog post on it thanks to the Blogger app for Android. The device is more like a big phone than a "small ipad". The main attribute I've noticed is that I get a lot of stares using this thing. I take it with me when I go to the store with my wife or to meetings at work. People are definitely curious about it. I'm writing this from a hospital waiting room; people are kinda craning their necks to get a look at the thing I'm pecking away on. It ships with Android 2.2 and did a quick sys update when I powered it on. This is my first Android device and I have to say its a bit of a weird change f...
At our 3rd Quarter Meeting last week, our Chief Creative Officer asked all of us at LPK to figure out individually "Why we do what we do". I didn't take long to figure out my reason: I do what I do because I'm intensely curious and I love a challenge. I never planned to get into what I do for a living; life just kinda' took me in that direction. However, in many ways, I've been doing the same thing since I was 12 years old. The only difference between now and then is that I've added skills and have gotten better at what I do along the way. And my client list has grown along the way too. So far in my pro career I've done a combination of all of these jobs: • Comic Book Artist • Comic Book Publisher • Photographer's Assistant/Darkroom Tech • Graphic Designer • Storyboard Artist • Commercial Illustrator • Photo Retouching • Consumer Product Concepts • Consumer Product Designer • Motion Graphics • Instructor • Who the hell knows next… I love waking up...
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