Recently, Tripp Fuller from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast, contacted me about designing some itunes album art for their new cast TNT (Theology Nerd Throwdown). Being a huge fan of the show I was glad to lend a hand! Below are the two graphics that made the final cut, you can cruise over to the HBC…
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Orpheus charmed all living things, even stones, with his music.
Orpheus was a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music; his attempt to retrieve his wife from the underworld; and his death at the hands of those who could not…
The Student Loan Racket – Infographic
In case you havn’t already seen this infographic, it’s pretty cool and informtative/incendiary.
Why You Should Not Use Two Spaces After A Period
Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It’s one of the canonical rules of the profession, in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion designers know to put men’s shirt buttons on the right and women’s on the left. Above is…
A creative, improvisational style of life
Jesus contradicts the Mosaic law not to impose an alternative law, but to propose the practice of grace. A life lived by the practice of grace is going to have an unpredictable, nonconforming aspect to it. Many of the central concerns of human society (the rule of law, the sanctity of life, sexual relations, contracts,…
Occupy Design: Designing for the 99 Percent
The graphic above comes from the Occupy Design site where graphic designers, in solidarity with the Occupiers, team up to build a visual language for the 99 percent. If you’re a designer, you can get involved here.
Wucius Wong and Interpreting The Visual Language
There are numerous ways of interpreting the visual language. Unlike the spoken or written language of which the grammatical laws are more of less established, the visual language has no obvious laws. Each design theorist may have a completely different set of discoveries. … We must not forget that the designer is a problem-solving person….
Original Poem: Benjamin
Benjamin God has only seen what I have I seen. Time is still but spread like tiny toes stretched in blissful relief. My mind is nowhere but there and here and elsewhere yet, perched alongside my dear, of what has only brought contemplation. Soon my love, rejoicing betides …soon. Turri|Design© … Above painting by San…
I saw that the meaning of life…
I saw that the meaning of life was to make a living, its goal to become a councilor, that the rich delight of love was to acquire a well-to-do girl, that the blessedness of friendship was to help each other in financial difficulties, that wisdom was whatever the majority assumed it to be, that enthusiasm…
Justin Martyr: We who formerly…
We who formerly…valued above all things the acquisition of wealth and possession, now bring what we have into a common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we had hated and destroyed one another, and on account of their different manners would not live with men of a different tribe, now since the coming of…