thanks for giving stories.

it’s a nasty feeling when your business makes you angry. kinda liike being in an abusive marriage. i love you, but i kinda hate you, and i’d walk out on you if i hadn’t invested a sizeable portion of my life in you.

i think i’m in the midst of a particularly painful growth stage, one that happens to require a bucket of documentation. couple of weeks ago, su and i had a company try to blame us for a dumb move of their own.

su promptly pointed at a piece of documentation that spelled out y-o-u-r-o-w-n-d-a-m-n-f-a-u-l-t. reassuring, but still: scary. it’s disenheartening to know folks are willing to push us from a cliff they’re slated to jump from themselves.

feel free to use this graphic on all your own memos:

an old employer drew this once. his office manager was kind of embarrassed by it, but whatever. it’s a little tacky, but i’d rather be clear that i’m aware which way the wind blows.

…since i’ve been redesigning gizmodo. again.

men! someoe find this guy a man, stat! (via octopus dropkick.)

meta-cat. if i thought there was ever a chance in the world zoe would use this over the industrial wool blanket she now prefers, i’d buy it.

yummy new type from veer: marmalade and ministy script. i swear, early 20th century advertising scripts are going to be the death of my software budget.

thirstype is dead! long live thirstype! chester has reinvigorated a tired-out type house by incorporating the thirstype collection into a new cooperative named village, alongside nine other partners. my collections are fastgirls, commodity, and gia. you can also grab one of my more abstract collections, mettle, from my pal chaz at prototype. mettle is a refit of a bitmap collection i originally did in 1997 for fisher bikes.

i have recently completed a full character set on a family called royal street, (now only two years behind schedule!). maybe it’ll be the next family out of village’s gate in thirstype’s name, dunno. i’d also like to release automaton, which i intially designed for the backstreet boys in 2000, and then refit to fleshbot in 2003. oh wait: full character set. bother.

now playing, and you should buy: born on the floor, the make up. (i thought punk was dead.) mommy, missy elliott. music, leela james. fly on the windscreen, depeche mode.

so heres’ a new concept in civic art responsibility: ask your advertisers to pay for it based on the amount of open-air advertising they do. them.ca, in toronto, is proposing just that.

“Typically, we accept advertising in other forums such as magazines, as it is seen to subsidize useful or enjoyable content for the consumer of the message. This fee will help billboard advertising to assume a more legitimate place in the public’s perception. Spin-off effects could include a reduction in vandalism (on advertising) and people paying more conscious attention to billboard advertisements,” says Them.ca curator, Devon Ostrom.

an interesting notion, although i don’t really believe it’ll reduce vandalism. if anything, it encourages communities to further voice their opinions via graffitti since they are now part of an equal trade in community aesthetic space. check with them.ca for more details.