George Lois revolutionized modern advertising with is “big idea” designs, which focused on presenting concepts through juxtaposition of text with imagery. He is well known for his Esquire Covers which are both very clever and often highly political. He is a great speaker, has big ideas, and swears a lot. This is one of the posters I made about him.

I have started my first cyclocross season. So far I am having a ton of fun and averaging top third of the beginner womens class. Thanks to Brujo for the awesome photograph.

5 of my old flyers were published in pencilbreak, a design anthology featuring breakcore/broken beat flyers and illustrations.

A nice review of Efforts from Scott Blaerg.

Your style in this booklet is not what I expected but it’s really tremendous. [..] as a move, it’s as bold as it is vulnerable.

After running into some frustrations while developing Drew’s WordPress blog, I worked out a couple of customizations that may be helpful.

Changing the default size of “full-size” images

Drew wanted to upload several different image sizes to his site, but found that even when he selected Full Size in the flash image uploader, the image defaulted to a width of 500px. It took some digging but I found some solutions. It’s set up this way to keep people from uploading huge images breaking their page layout. This only works if you are using a theme similar to the default WordPress theme which has a main column width of 500px. I followed their advice and set a global max column width in the functions.php file in my themes directory, like this:

$GLOBALS['content_width'] = 961;

Flickr Badge with Lightbox

I also had a heck of a time figuring out how to add a Flickr “badge” to a page’s sidebar and have the images appear lightboxed on the same page when clicked instead of going to a Flickr page. I tried a few pre-built plugins for this but couldn’t get them to work.To get it working, I installed the flickr RSS plugin and the Lightbox 2 plugin.Then to get the flickrRSS plugin to use the lightbox I had to add the rel=lightbox attribute to the flickrRSS.php file in the plugins directory. On lines 106 - 109 it looks like this:

print $before_image . "< a href="$fullimgurl" title="$title" 
rel="lightbox">" . $after_image;
            } else {
# grab image direct from flickr
print $before_image . "< a href="$fullimgurl" title="$title"
rel="lightbox">" . $after_image;   

My new zine is available for trade. Efforts (ftg004) is 11 pages long and contains 9 drawings with text. It is hand bound with hand drawn one of a kind covers. Available for trade only or in stores for $3. Contact heather at from the gut dot org for more information, a mailing address, etc. Copies are available through the void distro, and in portland at floating world comics and reading frenzy.

halloween costume 07, inspired by reka 06

Some photos from my trip to the Oregon coast.