Graphic Designer, Mr. T memorabilia collector, and assembler of @b_w_h_a_m.

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Joined January 2007
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join the graphic design gestapo now :-D
We’re hiring at the National Design Studio of America, looking for the most talented designers across the nation. Government websites should feel premium: fast, clear, and easy to use. Right now, too many essential services are stuck on outdated tech and tangled processes, so people hit dead ends, bounce between forms, wait on hold, and give up, especially seniors and anyone without time to spare. We’re raising the standard and rebuilding the experience from the top down with a small, high-bar team. If you’re ready to come to DC to cut through the red tape, move fast, and ship improvements at national scale, or know someone who would, reach out to me!
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Mr T., Carl Weathers and Sly Stallone in 1983.
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Rejected logos by Herb Lubalin and associates via alphabettenthletter.blogspot…
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Milton Glaser, Book Cover for The Cook by Harry Kressing (Rhinehart and Winston), 1965.
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Oct 1, 1983: 40 years ago, @MrT made a guest appearance on the season premiere episode of Diff'rent Strokes. #80s
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Over 100 "Go to the next screen" logos from various beat 'em ups. This time redone and in black. Let's Go!!
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I completely redid my first asset collage (VS logos). This time rearranged, in black, and with a lot more VS logos!
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Also I guess it's worth posting again the folder I have with the PNGs as well as the assets lined up if you want to use them yourself easily: drive.google.com/drive/folde…
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The ultimate rebel 💔 1952-2023 @peeweeherman for Interview, July 1987.
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This might be the best ad for a train museum, ever. Just incredible.
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The fact that Instant Pot is already being framed as a corporate cautionary tale—the company that went bankrupt bc they made a product so durable & versatile that its customers had little need to buy another one—instead of as a critique of capitalism is deeply, deeply depressing.
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Also semi-regular shout-out to the even bigger compilation of all this - a google doc I've been compiling for about a year now that includes links to dozens of flickr archives of scanned ephemera and vintage design items 💥📖 docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Making a thread here with all my vintage/unexpected design inspiration posts so they're all in one place!
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RIP Emily Dickinson, you would have really loved Mountain Dew Summer Freeze 💙
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1. Ever wonder what the rest of the Mona Lisa looks like? Got @Adobe Firefly to help fill out the background for me with the power of AI Here's what the backgrounds of the most famous paintings in the world look like with AI:
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Graphic designers are history. AI creates beautiful logos in seconds. Here's how to create any logo using AI (for free):
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Who’s hiring designers right now? Let's get a thread going below! 👋👇
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Some of my students were struggling to find internships, so I made this master list of studios for them to reach out to and figured I'd share it here too! It skews more towards the US + branding (my own bias) but I welcome any additions / nominations 💙 bit.ly/designstudiolist
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The Arabic Design Archive is "a non-profit initiative that seeks to enable knowledge production about Arabic design and its history through a framework of collecting, digitizing, and exhibiting". arabicdesignarchive.com
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VVHO HE IS AND HOVV HE CAME TO BE (1/2)
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I wrote an essay called "Grid World" for the latest issue of The HTML Review (thehtml.review). Read it here: alex.miller.garden/grid-worl… I had a really fun time creating the graphics that accompany the essay!
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