October 2008

A new career in a new town.

October 31, 2008

Okay, I was joking about the spare McSweeney’s broadsheet thing–that lasted all of a week. This design still needs some tweaking, but I like it: minimal-maximal. Helvetica Neue will always trump Times New Roman.

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October 11, 2008

After shuffling through a bunch of different designs for this site, I settled on one of the simplest–just text, really. I spend a lot of time at work building fancy newspaper websites–bursting with videos, audio slideshows, and Web 2.0 flourishes–and when I get home all I want to see is a plain sheet of paper. [...]

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