Even though I have a few projects and sources of income, I am always on the search for remote work. As a result I have been reading job descriptions consistently for at least the last ten years. There are always the pie in the sky job descriptions where the future employer wants you to design…
I am reading this series of blog posts about how to make a successful blog. It keeps pushing that you have to have a niche or it wont work. I have spent the better part of two days thinking about what niche I fit in. It is chemistry or electronics or cartooning or art or…
After I quit my horrible job, which I’ll go on about in a later post, I was not sure what I was going to do. I knew I needed some healing time but then what? The healing time took a little longer than expected. Turns out adjusting medication is both trial/error and a lengthy process….
Nasa has a new program to drum up awareness of their Mars missions (or newsletter). As a result, Hardcore Toast is going to be on Mars. Check it out here: https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/future
Sometimes we need other eyes on our work to help us make good decisions. A simple example, for me, is spelling. I often need someone to look over the words for spelling errors. When I am close to my art the letters are just graphic elements and not actual building blocks of words. Its hard…
Like most of America I have seen the Bernie Sanders memes flying around ever since the inauguration. The image of Bernie was uniquely iconic. I am not sure the exact factors that make something iconic but I know it when I see it. Icons are weird little things that can stand on their own as…
I have two clear designer diseases. First, I collect an unholy amount of fonts. If you have a website that offers free commercial fonts, I will stay there all day or until every font is downloaded, maybe twice. The other equally disease is palettes. If I had a penny for each palette I have copied…
Christmas Eve was punctuated by the blood curdling noise of branches ripping though the house. The upstairs bathroom has a seven foot limb hanging from the ceiling. The attic has some very large holes in it. In fact, they are large enough to crawl out of onto the roof (in my skinnier days, anyway). These…
When I was planning to quit my job and go out on my own (just before Covid) I decided there were three ways I could go. I could build a medium-sized graphics and advertising firm OR I could run a smaller shop and farm out the work to my very talented friends OR I could…
In life, we may receive many signs. Some signs come in the form of visions. Some signs come as actions or coincidences that defy explanation. Or sometimes, signs are just signs. My niece needed two signs for her wedding. She left the task to my oldest child who, nowadays with school and looming college stuff,…
