I had a dream one night. Like most of my dreams, it was a little strange. It took place a few years ago while I was in college at NYIT. My dream included my typography professor, who was a strict but very knowledgeable and talented typographer. In the dream, he basically bashed my work (as he did to students daily) and told me that the only school I could go to was the school of Cracked in the Cranium. He then said that in a few years I would improve as a designer and be able to attend a better design school, which had made me extremely excited for some strange reason.
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I just wanted to share some amazing photographs from a 17 year old. She could definitely be included among the other amazing young talent I posted in designers, developers, and bloggers under 18. She is also my cousin so maybe I am biased but I think her work is awesome and I can’t wait to see where she’s at in 10 years. I think she has great composition and has a knack for capturing “the moment” in many of her photos. Feel free to check our her flickr.
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Lately I have noticed some designs being stolen and I just wanted to point out a few. How do people expect to steal a design and go unnoticed? Especially when they are stealing the design from a well-known source. How can you claim to be a designer and just steal someone else’s design? Isn’t the reason for having a site is so that you can show it to people? I’m not sure why you would want to show something you have stolen to someone when there is a chance you might get caught and people will look down upon your name.
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David is actually one of my very good friends from college in NYC. We had tons of design classes together and were even in a band at one point. Not only is he a friend, but he’s honestly a very talented individual. I taught this kid everything he knows. Ok not really, but I did help teach him Illustrator and that makes me feel special 
He’s a seriously fast learner. I used to try to talk to him about web design and coding and he wasn’t too interested. Print was his passion, but just a few months ago he decided to spend more time getting into web design and learning code.
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There are a ton of cool Twitter background designs out there now. I have listed a few that caught my attention from either their creativity or very simplistic design.
If you are a frequent user of Twitter, then you probably know what Follow Friday is (or #followfriday). Every Friday twitterers recommend people that they think others should follow. It’s a nice idea, but lately it seems as though people recommend everyone on their follow list. I feel as though Follow Friday has lost some of its value and I value the ones that give reasons as to why the person should be followed. I know it’s hard because there are lots of people that I would suggest others follow but if people have no reason to follow they are likely to just not bother. Half of the time I am suggested
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Recently, I was followed by a few young designers on Twitter and I was impressed with what I saw. I decided to do a post featuring a few of them but when I started researching I was surprised at how many young, inspiring entrepreneurs there are out there. I wish I had been that motivated and created things like they have that when I was that young. Not only are they talented, but they have great social skills and are eager to learn. Many of them have built up a pretty big Twitter community and I was surprised at how they are utilizing it to
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“In like a lion, out like a lamb.” That’s definitely the case for Virginia Beach. I grew up in Rochester, NY where there is excessive amounts of snow but I haven’t seen much snow since I moved here. This morning I finally woke up to see the ground covered with snow and ice (even though just a few days ago it was 70 degrees). March is one of those unpredictable months and I thought it would be interesting to show photos of what March looks like in different parts of the world. What does March look like where you are?
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The book cover I designed for my brother-in-law Jim Bernheimer has finally been published. It’s called Horror, Humor, and Heroes and it is a collection of short stories and a novella. The cover design is based on the novella in the book called “Confessions of a D-List Supervillain” which is about a supervillain who is the only one able to save the world. If you’re interested in science fiction with a humorous twist, you can find it here on Amazon. Here’s the back cover text in case anyone is interested:
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I’ve finally finished a site redesign for a friend of mine and made it live – www.stefanomaggio.com. I’ve been wanting to update it since it was originally made with tables (I know, eww) and I also wanted to give it a more modern and professional look. Because it had a set height, it was impossible to add new information without having a scroll bar inside of the design. This version uses more CSS and less images so it should be much easier to update. I’m pretty embarassed by the old design now but I’ll share it anyway…
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