Idea Square: Graduation Skull

Recently I made a graphic based on one of my cartoon squares. I've never pulled an image from one of my doodles and brought it over to my graphic design world. I'M CROSSING THE STREAMS!

The OG square drawing

Photographic rendering

I must say though, I am happy with the outcome. Obviously more detail and time went into the 2nd one, but who know which other square might make a good graphic down the line.

We'll see if it happens again.

Adobe Creative Apps Fundamentals

There are quite a few perks working at CreativeLive.

One instance being the need for people to star in commercials for upcoming workshops. I happen to use the same Adobe applications they are teaching so they asked me to be in this short promo for the classes!

Filmed and edited by the very skilled Mike Folden.

If you want to learn more about Adobe CC I highly suggest watching these classes.

creativeMIKE

Today I was honored with an interview on the creativeLIVE blog. Click HERE to read the article.

Also, last week I was asked to do an onscreen interview, the video has been released to the interwebs and here it is! I hope you enjoy two dudes on stools.

Standard Eyes

Yea! Down with standardized testing. I'm not standard and neither are you!


I love everything said by Seth Godin in this video.

"What separates them from people who aren't successful isn't that they succeeded, it's that they failed more than the other people did."

It just makes perfect sense and makes you realize we are looking at things wrong, and until we learn to fail, we can't grow enough to succeed. Also his statement about not taking standardized tests for a living, especially never seeing them again after you take them, is great. It's very obvious that this is how education works but everyone just keeps lining up and spending thousands for information that is available if you just go out and look for it.

I have always pooped on education a bit, ever since I graduated high school and got dropped into mandatory GE classes in college, which I enjoyed referring to as high school 2.0. Their attempt to make a "well-rounded individual" just produced an angry, apathetic student who wanted nothing to do with their schedule.

Thank goodness I am not alone.