This is just a quick post, I’m writing some cool stuff for next week but wanted to let you know some cool news! So two months back I took the opportunity to let you know the improvements the site has made.

This Wednesday, October 28 at 5:30 we have a cyber-visiting designer/ illustrator named FRANK CHIMERO. He lives and works in Missouri and has been kind enough to set up an iChat visit with us. If you are planning to attend, try to be at the VISUAL RESOURCE COMMONS a little before 5:30 to minimize distractions. Also, there will be a [...]

SOME of us were up at Gallery West for 12 hours setting up the show for this week! We are super excited about it, it looks awesome. It is totally the best show that has been up this year. That is my unbiased opinion. Zach brought his camera and snapped a few shots of us setting things up.. Most of [...]

Sometimes we as artists need to look to the past for inspiration. Right now we have very little limiting us and our creative nature. But before, designers were confined by the technology and methods of that period. What this means is the art and design work stemming from that time gives us a glimpse upon the life and time of [...]

This week the OVC welcomed Todd Hart of Focus 2 as its first speaker. It was really great to hear from somebody who has been in the business for over twenty years and still radiates that exhilaration that made each of us stay up all night toying with Photoshop in the first place. Todd has won awards for his work [...]

We here at the OVC really want the website to have more community discussions so I am introducing Comments Appreciated a new category for articles here that I really want to have more dialog on. Most of them I will propose a question  or ask for some kind of input.. So here is the first one!

So we just got permission from the head of the art group of Open Office to let you in on whats going on. Open Office is a software suite that is built to be a total office program. I havent had Microsoft Office on my computer for 2 years now. Generally you can simply download it, but recently many of [...]

Alright guys, we made a mistake. While we were naming the gallery show we apparently had a mad case of the U.R.O.T.A.I.G.A. also known as unawarely ripping off the AIGA. This very weekend they are having a design conference called Make/Think, that we didn’t know about, though we should of. The title was referencing John Maeda and Clifton Burt, but this [...]

Sorry I’ve been away for a bit guys, I got the flu and have been burried under the covers.. I went to ACL just before the black death hit me and was just in awe of some of the great posters I saw all over the city.. That reminded me of a great website where you could spend a lifetime [...]

I don’t know about you guys, but there have been multiple occasions in the past while designing an envelope, postcard, etc when I have searched and searched for USPS guidelines and rules– where things can be printed, how much space to leave for barcodes, etc.Well.. On this, the Ninth of October, Two Thousand Nine years into the Common Era, I [...]