Jeffs Design Book

“Jeff’s Design Book” An Ironic Title for Clever Views OK, it’s a bit of a joke at this point. I keep searching for the “right” book title, and I keep coming up short. As a result I wind up referring to this as “Jeff’s Design Book”. The parent folder on my computer even uses that […]

Search

Search Searching is indeed what this book is all about. For inspiration, for learnings, for growth, for peace. It’s murky. It’s uncertain. It’s uncomfortable. Sometimes outright anxietous. But complacency is a silent killer that sneaks up on you, robbing you of what could have been. And just what are those colorful shapes all about? Exactly.

Flibbertigiblets

Flibbertigiblets One of the tenets of this book is to have fun. To be free of the inevitable frustrations that can arise when working with clients that see you as a scribe rather than an author. With this in mind I am able to look at things in any manner I see fit. It can […]

I Think You Think Design is Easy

I Think YOU Think Design is Easy Lo-fi, haphazard, sketchy, lomographic design (ala James Victore) is actually much harder to do than you would think. Something that looks quick and “in-the-moment” can often have an endearing quality that feels authentic and strangely contemporary. The irony of rendering a piece about design being easy in a […]

Hitler in a Dress

Hitler in a Dress Or, It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It Book titles can be proper, descriptive, authoritative, professorial, or they can be whacky and attention-grabbing. Hopefully you think of this as the latter and aren’t offended. The sub-title here is key. It provides insight into what this book is all […]

Mind Candy

Mind Candy This book—indeed graphic design—is about thinking visually. Portraying meaning with shape, color, type, organization, and imagery. One part visual, one part intellectual (with some emotion along the way). It is of the mind and of the sense of sight, each incomplete without the other. To that end the amalgumation of “M(eye)nd” is appropriate. […]

Sayings

Sayings Unabashedly hokey and corny, this cover title unapologetically says “ings.” Not once, but over and over. And in various formats and styles. Gee whiz, do you get it?

Expressions

Expressions Expressions as phrases. Expressions as visual interpretation. Expressions as facial gestures. OK, maybe that last one is just having a bit of fun rather than strictly adhering to the meaning of the book, but it forms a triple visual entendre all the same. The book is about design methods to express words—and having fun […]

Bugaboo Spray

Bugaboo Spray: Killing the Creative Blues The need for a creative outlet was one of the driving forces behind the inception of this book. Here the creative blues are personified as a pesky, nondescript bugaboo whose days are numbered. In typical Jackie Chan fashion, the violence is filtered through the lens of humor. This creates […]

Rose Colored Glasses

Rose-Colored (gl)Asses And Other Skewed Views One of the tenets of this book is to have fun. To be free of the inevitable frustrations that can arise when working with clients that see you as a scribe rather than an author. With this in mind I am able to look at things in any manner […]