Cameron Moll's Blog, page 94

Colosseo: Available March 2010

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This project began 12 months ago when Suzanne and I purchased tickets to Rome. It's consumed a good portion of my working life since then. This is a sneak preview.

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The Authentic Jobs Twenty Ten promotion

We just kicked off our Twenty Ten promotion over at Authentic Jobs. In short, post a listing and save 20%, and 10% of your purchase will be donated to Charity:Water to help provide clean drinking water around the world.

Alternatively, you may donate to our campaign without purchasing a listing.

Use promo code MOLLTEN when posting your listing. Offer ends January 22.

Do what works best for you, not them

Of the many things we do well as creative professionals, we often forget to think for ourselves, relying on thought leaders to determine what works for us and what doesn't.

Paramount in this failure to think for one's self is the fact that these thought leaders often struggle to encourage others to explore new thinking without belittling their methods--or worse, ostracizing them--in the process.

Whether or not the title of thought leader can be applied to myself, I'm just as guilty as anyone...

Notable recent job listings

Consider this the Merry Christmas edition. I've combed through the listings on Authentic Jobs and have hand-selected several listings below. Best wishes if you're looking for work over the holidays or thinking about changing employment.

GOOD is such a misnomer for a website with GREAT content and design. GOOD is looking for a Lead Web/Interaction Designer in the Los Angeles area. This is a killer opportunity to work with an incredible team, led by the venerable Greg Storey (West Coast...

Join me live on DesignChat tonight

Ryan McGovern, DesignChat founder, and I will be chatting live tonight, December 10, at 7:30pm CST. You can join us at mashable.com/chat.

Follow @designchat and watch a few previous chats on DesignChat's Vimeo channel.

Letterpress poster: Limited quantities for the holidays

If you're considering ordering one of my letterpress posters as a holiday gift, I recommend doing so soon. I have only about 40 remaining on hand, and I've already shipped a half-dozen of them this week. I won't be printing any more of this poster in 2009, as I'll be keeping Bryce's shop busy with another poster between now and the first of the year.

Happy holidays, everyone.

Easy dad project: Football/rugby uprights

I was always throwing stuff together as a kid, like homemade go-karts, bike ramps, forts, and other stuff that substantiated my existence as a boy. Now with boys of my own, it's as if I'm remaking all that stuff again. Except it's even more fun with kids.

One of the projects we put together recently was a simple, cheap set of football/rugby uprights. In football (American), the uprights at either end of the playing field are similar to those used in rugby. Seeing how tomorrow is Thanksgiving ...

Taking a stand against American Apparel

I've been doing designs for screened t-shirts on and off basically my entire career. Back in the day, Gildan and Hanes Beefy-T were popular choices for doing screened tee runs. The material was generally thick and beefy, and the fit was what you'd expect from a run-of-the-mill tee.

About four years ago American Apparel became mainstream and took the wholesale apparel industry by storm. The material was much lighter and the fit was more form-fitting. Printing a tee on American Apparel meant...

Adjusting to family life with diabetes

Last Thursday night we stopped in Albuquerque, New Mexico on our cross-country move to Florida. What was supposed to be an overnight stop has turned into a lengthy stay and a permanent change in our family's lifestyle.

One of our sons fell ill with the flu* soon after leaving Utah on Wednesday. By Thursday the flu had escalated and we found ourselves in the hospital by nightfall. On Friday the diagnosis was clear: Type 1 diabetes.

Our family knows very little about diabetes, but we're quickly b...

The "No Retweet Necessary" Contest

This should be my last Authentic Jobs-related post for a little while, but I've been working too hard on this contest not to mention it.

The Authentic Jobs "No Retweet Necessary" contest has an impressive bundle of prizes. You'll have the chance to win one of them not by retweeting or posting a comment or something else that provides you no benefit. You'll win by using the site in way that benefits you and only you.

When I do a formal contest such as this, I don't take it lightly. Some of the A...