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The Honorable Dean Alfange was an American statesman born December 2, 1899, in Constantinople (now Istanbul). He was raised in upstate New York. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I and attended Hamilton College, graduating in the class of 1922. I Do Not Choose to Be a Common Man It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security.  I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.  I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, “This I h...

PLRK is my personal and business philosophy of balancing the ideas and attitudes of play with the day-to-day grind of work to suppress burn-out and maximize the joy of creativity. Play hard, work hard = PLRKHRD This is a print campaign I'm working on which includes a poster, flier, ads, post card and fridge magnets. Enjoy! See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Eye Say • The Web Log

Do you have one? If you don’t, your life as a designer most likely looked like mine did 2 years ago. I work full-time for a giant religion-based non-profit in Oklahoma City. My project manager and I didn’t have a system with which to funnel the jobs we were getting, from all different directions, at all different times of the day, from all different types of folks. It was a disorganized, broken system of folks making requests of us which then led to paper fumbling and evasion techniques. Not good news if your goal is to gain respect for what you do within the organization. None of our internal clients respected our time or our work which made us feel even further underwater. Our current “system” added a lot of unneeded stress and frustration to our day. Does this sound familiar? Recognizing we had a problem, we scheduled a meeting (treating ourselves like one of our internal clients). We asked ourselves, “What would we love to know before starting on a project?” Then, we made a wi...

Your attention please. Remove yourself from under that rock and educate yourself to the world of Aaron Draplin. In this particular interview, our friend Aaron spills the blood and guts of the truth. So, iIf you don't like getting' icky, stay out of the mud. Oh, and buy some DDC merch http://www.draplin.com/merch/ or Aaron will find you. Before Going Independent: What did you do for a job? I was a Senior Designer, in the graphic arts. I worked in a small design shop here in Portland. Great, great place called “Cinco Design.” They do incredible stuff, and back in the early 2000s, launched Nixon watches and Gravis footwear’s look and feel. I was lucky enough to work on the Nixon project, doing everything from catalogs to icons to watches designs.  Before that, I was the art director at Snowboarder Magazine in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Behind the “Orange Curtain.” Goddamn hellhole. And before that, I was in school in Minneapolis for a couple years, coming off a hot stretch in ...