Nearly 10 years ago, I met a Congressman from rural MN who drove around for hours to help a single Veteran get a pair of hearing aids so he could hear his dying wife’s voice. Never would have guessed then that #TimWalz would be in running for VP. youtu.be/kqoqiM5VGQk?si=Rs-K…
I'm going to be releasing a digital product soon that I presume is going to be ripped off in short order. Have I used a proprietary font on it that has never been publicly released so I have a clear claim for illegal use if someone rips off/resells the digital product? Why yes.
Yes, I do still get excited about packaging paper. A parcel arrived this week with this 'punctured' paper in it 😮. . . it makes a great background for my egg-box fish. This entire artwork has cost me absolutely nothing, apart from time. 😉
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Geeks Night Out is back! (a.k.a. Type Tuesday). Last night was a working session where we could bring a WIP to get feedback and "get unstuck." Great session with Michelle Webster, @marksimonson, @teelinefonts and Raquel Rodriguez.
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Yesterday while out running errands I stopped at OfficeMax to find a specific kind of battery. It was expensive - $27 - but I figured that was the going rate. It wasn't. Once home, I learned I could buy it for $9 elsewhere.
Typically I wouldn't return something like that, but $27 was a ridiculous mark up. The batteries were still unopened, and when then OfficeMax employee processing the return asked what was wrong, I said they were just overpriced. He agreed!
Then he said "...that's Bidenomics for you." I told him I didn't think Pres. Biden had anything to do with the price of batteries, and it may have more to do with corporations gouging customers for everyday items and blaming it on inflation. Sigh.
Started designing some new business cards. Got distracted by 18th-century trade cards.
Made biscuit (cookie) versions of those instead. 🍪
ALT A set of four biscuits against a maroon wooden background. The biscuits are iced in different shades of cream. Three are rectangular, and one has a cloud-like shape. Each biscuit is painted to look like an eighteenth-century printed trade card. One has ‘James Reynolds’ written in large type, spelt with an I instead of a J. Beneath, in a curly calligraphic font, the biscuit reads: ‘Haberdasher at the Hand and Pen in Russell Street, Covent Garden, London’. The design is finished with an extravagantly-framed hand holding a quill. The other biscuits read: ‘John Lockington: Engraver, Hair Worker & Toy Manufacturer’; ‘Elizabeth Bagwell, Linen Draper at the great Ship & Bell on Tower Hill’; and ‘Owen & Cox, Appraisers, undertakers, etc.’ Elizabeth Bagwell’s card features an image of an eighteenth-century ship. Owen & Cox’s design is framed with tiny line drawings of furniture pieces.
Some good news amid all the bad? A painting made in 1929 by Jewish painter Moshe Rynecki was just returned to his family. Moshe's grandson/great-granddaughter laid their eyes on it for the first time today. See the photo/video: facebook.com/elizabeth.rynec…
Elizabeth Rynecki wrote the book "Chasing Portraits: A Great-Granddaughter’s Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy" about her family's quest to learn what happened to Moshe's art. It's feared most of it was lost during WWII.
What an amazing day for Elizabeth and her family.
It happened: a client has submitted Chat GPT-generated text for a marketing piece. My thoughts:
– This is a client I've worked with for years and developing initial text has been a psychological road block for them.
- Does it read like Chat GPT? Yep. But it can be edited.
– This client has a short-turn deadline, and this marketing piece is going to be used at one event. Chat GPT is helping them get a shot out of the gate on creating this marketing tool in time.
I'm still in a grey area about how I feel about AI tools...
I don't think the tools will be all good/all bad. In this case it helped a client save emotional energy, and helped them to create something on a tight deadline.