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Recently, I went with my family and my goddaughter to Disney World for the weekend. It was a fantastic experience in many ways. One unexpected plus was how inspired I was by the amazing exhibition and area design at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure.

Anyone who is even slightly interested in how design plays out to a large environment should visit a theme park like this. Many of the sites within the park are breathtaking both in overall scale (a 60 foot tall hat for the cat in the hat ride) and visual execution (typography, composition). I kept asking my...

Sometimes the hardest problems to solve are the ones you are most excited about. I have realized this through years of trying to design the next greatest, most groundbreaking, most original design...and usually failing miserably. I believe that, as designers, we do get something similar to "writer's block", and it can happen quite often if we put too much pressure on the process.

A few years ago, I started attending classes at the well known comedy club and school, The Second City, in Chicago...

Recently, I've been seeing quite a few things around that make me remember growing up in the 80s. Maybe you are like me and you grew up on synthesized music, bright geometric shapes, pizza rolls and brilliant television shows such as Perfect Strangers and Alf. Maybe you're not, but it's hard not to appreciate some of the ways that designers are borrowing from that era to create catchy pieces.

I found this artist online that I love named Sakke Soini. I've included a Ray Ban ad that Sakke did as well as something that I want...