Dare To Fail

Dare To Fail

Updated October 2026. I first wrote this post in 2013. Thirteen years later, I still live by it. Carpe Diem! Seize the Day What a great rallying cry on a Monday morning. What a great way to start your day or the beginning of your project. Yes! Today will be a success!...
There Is a Cost to Doing Business

There Is a Cost to Doing Business

Fellow designers! I’ve been watching the ongoing outrage about Adobe Creative Cloud pricing, and I get it. I really do. When you’re starting out or when client work slows down, that monthly subscription feels like a weight around your neck. Seventy dollars a month,...
What Desktop Publishing Taught Me About AI

What Desktop Publishing Taught Me About AI

I graduated from college in 1985 and went straight into graphic design, when the work was entirely physical. Paste-up was the job. You cut type with an X-Acto knife, waxed it down on boards, and hoped nothing shifted before it went to film. That was simply how design...