TeXt Marks The Spot

I’ve recently been contracted to work in a marketing/promotions capacity for a developing brand. More on this to come!

I prepared the PowerPoint supplements for two Cengage college textbooks on Community Policing. Although my role was strictly PPT, I did spot a couple minor edits. I heard back the following feedback: “I agree with the supplement author – those items need to be edited. … if you would please pass along our thanks to the person who caught these two things, we’d appreciate it.”

With ToyCyte being on permanent hiatus, I needed a place to channel my toy blogging energy. John “Spanky” Stokes opened the door and gives me the chance to blog my head off whenever I feel the need. I even have my own tag! The article pictured above is a story I’m particularly proud of. I encourage you to check it out!

I made it to the big time! Amazon’s Toy Whimsy blog gave me a guest blogger position, and I began writing an Art Toys 101 column called “The Art of Toys.” Occasionally, I post a blast from the past. This little post about Devo toys apparently got an unprecedented number of hits. There’s a fun interview with me here.

The editor in me had to pick at a few typos on the brilliant Sergey Safonov’s Rotocasted database, and that critique lead to a great friendship and a position as Database Librarian. When I’m not correcting tags and typos, I’m taking pictures of toys for safe archiving in the library. Lots of good stuff is in store for this site. In the meantime, pardon the dust!

In the past couple months, I’ve been honored to contribute art and design news to Cool Hunting.

Cool Hunting is a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology, and features weekly videos that get an inside look at the people who create them. Published since February 2003 as a personal catalog and reference tool, the site today attracts and inspires more than 400,000 regular readers from around the world.

Earlier this summer, Doodlesplatter got a makeover from Jon Burgerman himself and my new co-conspirators, the generous and talented, The Neon Hive. With Doodlesplatter, I coined the term blogography. The blog is a biography about Jon and his work, with a Web 2.0 twist: I infuse a little bit of me (the blogographer) in the way of opinion and commentary in each post. This is some of the most fun I’ve had in a blog, and it’s turned into a really uniting factor. A street art project based on Shepard Fairey’s iconic Andre the Giant sticker has even sprung up worldwide. Doodlesplatter is updated nearly daily.