Over the past few weeks my wife and I have been coordinating our move from Oceanside to Long Beach, California. I am very happy to say that we have finally made the final move to our new place. It feels great to be back in the town I was originally born. I celebrated our move by making the both of us dish that used my top secret pesto recipe.

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Every Graphic Designer has a bookshelf full of technical manuals and guides. However, not too many of these books focus on the realities of a design career. How to be a Graphic Designer without losing your soul by Adrian Shaughnessy creates a new standard for books about the lives of successful designers. This book deserves a place on every studios bookshelf.
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It seems like at the worst possible time during a project, be it Graphic Design or illustration, you end up getting hit by a creative block. If you are working on a project for a client, or even if you’re just doing something for yourself, it can be frustrating, highly costly, and just plain annoying. What do you do when the creative well dries up and you start running out of ideas? Here is a list of places to go and things to do that will help you get your creativity flowing again. They have all saved me countless times and they might be able to help you out when you can’t afford to just sit around and wait for your creativity to come back…

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I have had a wide array of jobs in my life, but none have really meant as much to me as this one. There are several reasons why I chose to follow this career path. In no particular order these are the main points on why I am a graphic designer.
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Over the past couple of weeks, between several different client projects, I have been working on redesigning my own website. The redesign is finally finished and I am launching it today.
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