Logo vs. Clip Art

On the topic of being published, I discovered that there is an online article at Designorati where I am quoted several times.

Every now and then I Google my name for kicks, just to see what comes up. This time the Designorati article popped up about a third of the way down the results page. My quotes were taken from some posts that I made for a topic on using clip art for logos in a Yahoo graphic design mailing list. Obviously, I was strongly against using clip art for logos, as illustrated by my comments.

Word It

Well this is a little exciting for me. I'm published. In print. My name and work is out there. Yay me.

The book is called "The Word It Book" which is a collection of monthly Word It submissions to the Speak Up website. Speak Up is a design blog and Word It is a monthly excercise of taking a word (in this case the word was "blah") and providing a visual interpretation of it.

What's actually the neat part about this is, unlike other trade magazines that run annual design competitions where an entry fee is required (essentially paying your way in), all the entries in this book were hand selected by the authors.

And yes, I took the name for this blog from my own Word It entry of nearly two years ago.

The book:


The best page in the book:


The index to the best page in the book: