Design: 0. Madness: 12.

The last few months have brought about a lot of per­sonal mad­ness. Design work, as I’m dis­cov­ering, isn’t as acco­mod­ating towards mental chaos as other forms of artistic expres­sion are, thus I’ve let things stag­nate. Why don’t humans hibernate in the winter? Nothing would make me hap­pier than eating a lot and sleeping through the bliz­zards, ice rain, and cold winds that give me con­stant headaches.

My Grande Olde New Years’ Res­ol­u­tion is to spend less time organ­izing the 4829 songs on my hard drive and more time doing actual design work.

I found a poster I designed in front of the Spring Garden lib­rary a month ago and got so excited I had to be dragged away. Later I dis­covered that some rat-bastard was TEARING THEM ALL DOWN, which still makes me angry. Hey, poster-rip-downer, way to spoil my idyllic joy! It’s YOUR fault that I’m bitter and jaded!

The Pro-Choice Action Net­work web­site is finally live, after much tedious format­ting and eye­strain on my part. I may not be the most impar­tial judge, but I think their redesign is about 1,000,000 times better than their old site, which was suf­fering from some major “FrontPage-Generated Use­less Code Syndrome”.

I’m cur­rently working on some super-secret pro­jects, of which I will reveal no more than this: I am doing movie titles. I am SO the next Saul Bass.

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