While the end of the year is quickly approaching I wanted to wish everyone a happy holidays and thank you to all those who took the time to visit my site and view my work this year and in the past.  This has by far been the most successful year for me, I got to work on so many awesome projects, won a couple of awards, and stayed pretty busy through the rough economic times.  If next year is anything close to this one that would be amazing.  If anyone is attending the Mac World Expo in January out in California, I do have a piece that is going to be shown at the Digital Art Gallery there so check it out if you get a chance.  Again, Happy Holidays and New Years to everyone, go eat lots of food, drink some beers and good luck to everyone.
-Adam

I worked on this a while back through Propane Studios, its an online holiday card by Hitachi that is translated into 10 different languages.  You select a couple of their products and it forms a Kaledioscope figure that generates random patterns based off what you have selected. 

I’m not sure how I missed this when it first came out, but I am honored to be featured as Design Taxi’s Website Of The Day back on December 13th.  Big Thanks!

While browsing around the web today, I stumbled across the work of Russian designer Yulia Brodskaya.  This award winning and published designer has some of the most amazing Paper Graphic artwork that I have seen.  Every piece is so intricate and flawless and there’s so many of them, take a look for yourself.

I just came across today and I’m not sure how recent this is but I think its fairly new.  AIGA has a Designers Salary Survey for 2008 that covers yearly salary and total compensation for various design position as well as for owners, developers, producers and copywriters.  Having worked in both Orlando and New York I can say from first hand experience that these numbers are quite close for the most part, but the one category that surprised me the most was the range for freelancers.  Take a look and see where you rank salary wise with your fellow designers in your area.

The Killers are back with their latest album, Day & Age, which reminiscences their first album Hot Fuss, a collection of tracks made up of orchestrated sounds, electrifying synths and poppy beats that you could dance all night to at your local hipster hangout.  After the success of their first debuted album, the Killers seemed to have turned their reputation 180 degrees and released Sam’s Town, a good album but had some critics claiming they were following the lines of Bruce Springsteen maybe just a little too closely.  Many saw their clean cut, fashionista style quickly turn into a western un-groomed cowboy look.  I have to admit I was a fan of their first album more than the other ones, besides the tracks ‘Mr. Brightside’ and ‘Somebody Told Me’ is what first caught my attention and I’m glad they finally decided to lean back towards the style of music that got them noticed in the first place.  This album includes some great tracks including Human, Spaceman and A Dustland Fairytale. 

I’m quite excited to be one of the 25 selected artists to have their work displayed next year at the Macworld Conference in San Fransisco, California.  The expo will be held January 5-9 and is one of the biggest Mac conferences in the world with an estimating 40-50k people in attendance.  The artworks will be blown up and displayed in the Digital Art Gallery as well being printed in catalogs to hand out. 

I’m still trying to decide if I will be attending the event, I have never been out to California so this would definitely be an interesting trip.  I’m Curious if anyone has attended one of these conferences before and how their experience went. 

The Grid System is a very helpful and resourceful site created by Antonio Carusone.  As many designers may know, when used correctly the grid can be a very powerful and useful tool that can improve the visual design layouts for websites, newspapers, magazines and just about anything else in between.  This site includes articles, tools and books about the different types of grids and the best ways to use them.  One of the best features on the site is the collection of free grid templates they have available for download.  These files are made for Adobe InDesign and Photoshop and follows the Rule Of Thirds also known as The Golden Rule.