Coffee Ring Texture

I'm still alive, but just barely :) Been a very busy week as our business is in a transitional period.

Designs We've Seen (a lot) Series

Coffee rings pop up all over design to market coffee companies or show the lifestyle of a business person.

Looks like a handcuff with a ray

The Church as a Business

The Church as a Business

If I start a new business it will probably be a church.

God needs a little more money.

If you were donating $20 before, God would like you to increase it to $27 to $32 according to the "Guideline to Giving". If your previous contribution was $100, you're looking at $110 to $115. I ask God's blessing on each of you.

Mother of Mercy High School's New Logo

Mother of Mercy High School's New Logo
Cincinnati, OH

Once again, I am not here to necessarily critique these designs. However, having seen the local billboards, I find a local newspaper's explanation of Mother of Mercy High School's new logo to be reaching somewhat far into the reader's imagination...

The new graphic maintains the traditional elements of Mercy's original logo but also reflects the school's scholarly achievement and a young women's journey with Christ to her future by incorporating a "movement" of blue ribbons that flow directly through the distinctive Mercy cross and into the the light.

"Our new logo allows us to better capture the excellence that is Mercy with our relentless attention on individual excellence, as well as the amazing strides we are making toward our Vision for the future."

Did you get all of that out of this new mark? Distinctive Mercy cross... reflects a journey with Christ... Opinions?

The one element I will comment on, and that is the faded gradient to white. From design experience (Beacon Orthopedics) I have never enjoyed gradients incorporated in a logo. In the future, when designers try to use color backgrounds with the logo they will have to come up with solutions like an outer glow, white box, or a different fade color if they want the piece to look correct and professional.

President Obama's Official Birth Certificate

President Obama's Official Birth Certificate
All the news yesterday.

GET OVER IT! It doesn't matter how many official documents come out--people are still going to create absurd conspiracies. Let's put Donald Trump in the White House. Maybe he can spend tax payer money the same way he spends his own money--spending millions for trivial research on a United States citizen's birth certificate.

Well, to add fuel to the fire, I scanned this document in high-resolution, defined the details under ultraviolet/x-rays, and darkened secluded areas in Photoshop to reveal how this "official" document really appeared before an expert fraudulent document creator came in to clean up the job.

Obama's Birth Certificate