Photo of the Moment
Photo of the Moment, Photography
Photo of the Moment: Makuza!
Photo of the Moment, Photography
l’art pour l’art
Design Concept/Ideas, Someone Once Said..., The Design Process
Leafing through an old magazine, I noticed a small ad about a design course by mail. The headline read, “Art for pleasure and profit!” I have never found a better definition to describe my profession. Of course, at times it is more the pleasure and less the profit, at times the contrary. But if one of the components were missing, design wouldn’t exist.
—Carlo Angelini
Definitely agree. The French phrase ‘l’art pour l’art’ which means ‘art for art’s sake’ does not apply to design. To design for design’s sake is really to not create design at all. Design is created for a specific audience with a specific goal in mind. Without an audience or goal, design is no longer design, but just art. Art doesn’t have to communicate to a specific audience like design does.
Your thoughts?
Someone once said…
Someone Once Said...
Babe Ruth was a Home Run king but he was also a strike out king. Always go for the fences, even if it means some designs strike out with clients. That’s the only way to hit a home run.
Photo: Red, Yellow, Green
Photo of the Moment, Photography

I took this a few days after I got my camera (that being last September). I basically stood 2 feet from the street with my camera on a tripod and got yelled and honked at during my 30 minute photoshoot.
F-Stop: 22, Shutter speed: 30 seconds, ISO 100
Donny McCaslin tearing it up
Jazz Music, Photo of the Moment, Photography

On critiquing design
Inspiration, Print Design, Someone Once Said...
A person tends to critique a design in one of several ways. The most common, and usually least valuable, is by gut reaction.
I totally agree here. I remember back when I interned at Workbench Magazine (now My Home My Style) and the Assistant Art Director, Doug Appleby would critique the magazine spreads I designed. Note: I would get his advice and critiques multiple times a day. He would always look at it for a minute or two before even saying a word. I believe he was really analyzing what I designed and what he thinks of it, instead of just saying his gut reaction.
Photo: Jazz Saxophonist
Jazz Music, Photo of the Moment, Photography
A few old tunes
Jazz Music
Have You Met Miss Jones
Moment’s Notice
Aristotle once said…
Inspiration, Someone Once Said...
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle






