My friend Lauryn sent this video to me. This one is definitely dedicated to all of those design/typography geeks out there! I must say, my stomach turned a bit when I realized Comic Sans was the hero, but Wingdings more than made up for it.

Well, I am finally ready to let loose a bit of a teaser. Some of you know that I’m in the middle of writing a script for a film that I would like to see produced and submitted to festivals. It’s been an interesting process so far and we are definitely still in the infant stages of this. All of this is subject to change (including the title), but if you’re interested you can head over to verbatimmovie.com to check out the Verbatim teaser page. Currently there is only some sparse graphics and a song at that page, but a synopsis and accompanying materials will arrive in time. I want to document the process of this film from its early stages, hence this teaser site.

For those of you interested, the song was put together in GarageBand in conjunction with a MIDI keyboard that I use to compose with here at home. Let me know what you think.

I was in the line at Wal*Mart and noticed this crazy little packaging change on a Snickers bar. Awhile ago I blogged on how Starbucks was using their original logo this year on select drinks to help celebrate their anniversary. It would appear that Snickers is doing the same from the look of it (from what I have heard it sounds like it is their 75th anniversary). Apparently radical marketing like this works- I bought a bar just to show my wife when I got home… I didn’t even want the candy bar.

I was asked to be an extra in a fun little film that Food for the Hungry is producing. The film is being designed to teach the importance of raising monies for medicine and supplies which are distributed through our Gifts-in-Kind ministry. Our video guy sent this still to me from the ‘deworming medication’ segment.

Well… it appears that a very promising graphic design entity, Create Magazine, just bit the dust. I received an email today saying that Jupitermedia Corporate Inc purchased the magazine and is merging it with their magazine, ‘Dynamic Graphics’.

I remember when Create Magazine first came out. It was so full of promise, it had a great design sense to it, and it was locationally relevant by publishing region-specific issues that contained news specifically going on in my neck of the woods. We’ll see how this all pans out, but if this new homepage is any indication then I’m not going to hold my breath (man that design is nasty… granted my blog has seen better days, but if you own a domain like graphics.com you’d think there’d be something more to show then ads, ugly banners, and unnecessary columns).

Que sirrah, sirrah…