Nate Burgos's Blog, page 28
September 3, 2014
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Melissa Delzio’s Our Portland Story
What are you working on—on the side?
I have two main side projects and hope to add more to that list. My biggest project is really a second business with a not-for-profit focus. It is a community project called Our Portland Story that celebrates our city and its people through story and design. I founded Our Portland Story in 2008, and have published two books featuring hundreds of local authors and designers. We collect stories about Portland by Portlanders from all walks of life, a...
August 31, 2014
Tweeted August 2014: Food for thought
Tweet icon designed by Adame Dahmani from The Noun Project collection
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
—Franz Kafka
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 29, 2014
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule
to read some poetry and listen to some music every week.”
—Charles Darwin
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 29, 2014
“Success is going from failure to failure
without losing your enthusiasm.”
—Winston Churchill
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August...
Patronage Package 8 of Duly Discovered
Apps
“Smartphone Apps Help To Battle Campus Sexual Assaults”
by Juana Summers
Books
September Publishing: “unique stories, extraordinary lives
and expert insight”
“OCTOPUS!”
by Katherine H. Courage, Contributing Editor, Scientific American
“Great Gals: Inspired Ideas for Living a Kick-Ass Life”
written, designed, and illustrated by Summer Pierre
“Smart People Should Build Things”
by Andrew Yang
Education
“Student Guide to Web Design”
by Janna Hagan
ConstructionKids, “hands-on learning for ages 4–12”
Summit o...
August 26, 2014
A Journal of Life: Erin Huizenga at 33rd CreativeMornings in Chicago
At the 33rd gathering of the Chicago chapter of CreativeMornings, Erin Huizenga, designer, strategist, and educator, discussed her experiences with “Failure,” CreativeMornings’ global theme for August 2014. Along with the great success that she has achieved through her realized projects—like EPIC, an organization that pairs creative professionals with Chicago-based nonprofits, and the Well Conference for branding agency Remedy, she has experienced resistance and setback in her career. She rev...
August 25, 2014
Anticipation for Cusp Conference 2014
Chicago-based design firm Multiple is having again their Cusp Conference in 2014. This is the seventh annual gathering, uniquely steered by Multiple’s drive to shape and deliver an alluring staple of people and projects that compose, from their conference’s definition, “the design of everything.”
A hearty slice of “everything” was what I received when I attended Cusp for the first time last year. The conference’s start consisted of a watermelon-crowned (literally) anthem with the vigorous refr...
August 21, 2014
Writing and Art Together: Summer Pierre, Cartoonist, Writer, and Illustrator
It was through this tweeted exchange about morning dancing that I discovered Summer Pierre, with her brilliant range of drawings and writings. Here, she tells more about her drive and work in illustrations, comics, including a series of book portraits. One detail, among many, you’ll find out during the course of this interview, mornings very much suit her creativity.
On being a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer
You are a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. Is this the order
of the...
August 20, 2014
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Elizabeth Baddeley’s Curious Kansas City
What are you working on—on the side?
I keep up a blog called Curious Kansas City, where I draw and write (when time allows) about interesting aspects of my hometown of Kansas City.
But really, my side project is drawing on location. I do it everywhere I go. I actually just got back from a trip to California, drawing all the way! It all began when I was in grad school and took a drawing-on-location class taught by Carol Fabricatore. It met every Friday for a year and lasted five hours! I feel li...
August 19, 2014
Looking at Letters and Designing Them: Laura Meseguer, Type Designer
At BunkerType in Barcelona. Photograph by Jesús Morentin.
Laura Meseguer is a freelance graphic and type designer in Barcelona, Spain. In addition to running her studio, working on both commercial and commissioned projects, she is the co-founder of Type-Ø-Tones, a typographic design foundry. Here, she elaborates on her approach to designing letters and alphabets.
On being a typeface designer
How did you arrive at what you do as a typeface designer?
Was there an initial encounter of typograp...
August 10, 2014
Mega thanks to everyone who promoted my book BROKEN (Part 1)
Card icon designed by Andrew Sloan from The Noun Project collection
After writing, editing, designing, pricing, and finally launching my latest book BROKEN: Navigating the ups and downs of the circus called work, my next tasks dealt with promoting it. With a self-published book, every mention counts, whether it’s in person, by email, and especially through the Web. Since the book’s announcement, lots of people helped bring it to the attention of others.
Sharing—by those beyond the maker—is...
August 7, 2014
Tweeted July 2014: Food for thought
Tweet icon designed by Adame Dahmani from The Noun Project collection
“Dear everyone who writes. Stop adding double spaces. Thanks.”
—Mike Sullivan
Tweeted by @studiomister on July 31, 2014
“Doing excellent work is a choice; not your company
or manager’s choice, always your choice.”
—Vala Afshar
Tweeted by @Remi_Tee on July 31, 2014
“There has never been a better time
in the whole history of the world to invent something.”
—Kevin Kelly
Tweeted by @ryanevans on July 30, 2014
“Critique teaches you to...
