"Check inside machine for children, pets, and foreign objects before loading and starting."

"Check inside machine for children, pets, and foreign objects before loading and starting.", originally uploaded by tofu mugwump.

Clarity of design and content is important in preventing disasters.

things not okay by me

Papyrus. On my trip back to Minnesota last weekend it felt like half of the billboards used Papyrus. Why is one typeface used to represent ancient egypt (ha), greece, the southwest, organic elegance, woodsy downhomeness, and trendy alternativeness? Why do people think papyrus lasercut into brushed aluminum is classy?

I'd include images, but that would require putting Papyrus on my blog.

As a sidenote, in Egypt, most of the cheap "papyrus" you buy from street vendors and tourist shops is actually banana paper. The skins/leaves of a banana are much cheaper to process than real papyrus. The end product is also a lot more brittle. And cheap. Let's rename Papyrus to Banana Paper Sans.

things ok by me

$2 PBRs, free wireless at the Charleston, Bud and him doing all my design for me. Such a good night.

New website design and a blog template to match!

I've also got a fancy new portfolio section and a profile at aiga design jobs. I'm still doing tweaks to the site, which will probably include some new portfolio images. I am also on the hunt for a job in Chitown.


view my portfolio:
aigadesignjobs.org/topher

Tokyo

The Tweed sent me to Tokyo for a very short trip in March. Here's a video I cobbled together from my footage.

leaving home... again

basement, originally uploaded by tofu mugwump.

Now that I've graduated college, I feel once again in a very transitional state. The photo is from Thanksgiving 2005 when I had to help my mother pack up my childhood home. She was leaving South Dakota for a more lucrative job in Minnesota. I'll soon be leaving Duluth, which has come to feel more like home than anywhere else, to hopefully find a job in Chicago.

This is not art. It's a pipe.

artangst44, originally uploaded by tofu mugwump.

Cheerful

Cheerful
Originally uploaded by tofu mugwump

I've finished my undergraduate career, assuming they don't find something else and withhold my diploma. Now it is time to make good art. And organize my flickr!

"Mythology is one step beyond nostalgia."