Creative Best at the LC Pavilion

Creative Best tickets available on-line. Get them now and save $10.

From French to Bezier curves, paste-up to Command-V, X-Acto to QuarkXPress, good design always returns to the deep inkwell of fundamentals. Balance. Rhythm. Freshness. Economy. Creativity. 

Join us November 18 for Creative Best 2010, when we gather to celebrate 40 years of CSCA, and to honor those whose work cuts through the noise of the times—and speaks with timeless authority.

November 18, 2010 6:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.
LC Pavilion 405 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43215
Presentation begins promptly at 7 p.m.
Party after presentation

FINALLY!

In case any of you were wondering what to get me for Christmas this year...

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Identify Exhibit at Otterbein University

I'm honored to be part of a group of amazing designers/agencies who were chosen for the Identify Exhibit this fall at Otterbein University, curated by Paul Davis and presented by the Otterbein Department of Art. The exhibit runs 9/13 through 10/15 at the Leslie H. & Ethyl Rose Miller Gallery in the Art & Communications Building.

Other featured designers include Base Art Co, Conrad Philips and Vutech, Farmbarn Art Co., Fitch, Integrate, Meg Russel, Resource Interactive, Salvato Coe + Gabor, Spacejunk Media and The Limited.

For more information visit their site at http://identifyexhibition.com/

Jessica Hische at CSCA

The wonderful Jessica Hische will be speaking in Columbus on September 16th at OSU's Mendenhall Lab on the oval. More information can be found at www.cscarts.org.

What's better? She has agreed to stick around for the weekend to be one of our Judges for Creative Best. We're Celebrating 40 years of CSCA. So come early to Jessica's talk and bring your best work to submit for this year's competition. Rules and Entry forms can be found be found on CSCA's website.

CSCA: www.cscarts.org

Creative Best 2010: www.cscarts.org/events/creativebest2010/

Jessica Hische: www.jessicahische.com

Lego my logo

 

If you want your logo to literally jump off the page, there's nothing like a good ol' fashion emboss to do the trick.

Embossing will also make the cash jump out of your wallet--especially when you are doing small quantities.

My new business cards arrived this week. I  slipped them into the margins on the press sheet and my printer trimmed them out for me. Voila! free business cards! In my layout, I intentionally left a space where I could add my embossed logo to finish the cards. I searched Amazon.com and found this cool desk embosser.

I played around with the logo placement and quickly realized that it was hit-or-miss when it came to positioning the logo. I needed a jig that would put the cards in the exact same place each time--allowing the perfect placement and making it easer to mass produce the cards.

I dug around in my son's Lego collection and found that the desk embosser is EXACTLY 6 Lego "dots" wide and just under 13 "dots" long which gave me a little room to adjust the position by sliding it up and down. I added a fence and a stop to align the card with the emboss plate. The little gray antenna piece in the bottom left corner makes a good "half dot" measurement in case your logo doesn't line up exactly in full "dots." Works like a charm.

Maybe someday we'll see "Lego Dots" added to the list of measurement options in InDesign. Inches, Centimeters, Picas, Dots...

 

CSCA Pinewood Derby 2010

It's almost time for the 5th annual CSCA Pinewood Derby and I'm running out of time. While my cars in the past have done well in the design department they have never fared well when it came to speed. So, Caleb and I are building two simple cars this year--both designed with performance in mind. We are polishing the axels, squaring up the wheels and strategically placing the weight. I'll be posting photos of our progress on flickr. www.flickr.com/jeremyslagle

It's not too late to join in! You can contact Dylan to register or join us on July 22 at OSU for this month's CSCA event. Proceeds benefit CSCA's Scholarship Fund.

This year's derby will be held August 19 at the North Market.

The sweet design above was created by Dylan Menges.