Illustration and Editorial Photo

May 11th, 2009

It’s Monday morning, which means I’ve been spending quality time with my Franklin Planner. I’ve got a lot of deadlines on my calendar this week and really can’t reschedule or postpone many of the other tasks.

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Color Calibration

May 8th, 2009

I’ve spent a good portion of the last two days playing around with color calibration issues. I’m using GraytagMacbeth’s Eye-One Match, a Canon 5D, an Apple 20” Cinema Display, an Epson Perfection V500 flatbed scanner, and an Epson Stylus Pro 4800. I’m pretty close to getting the results I’m hoping for, but I’m not quite there. Also, I’m still not confident that the custom color profiles I’ve built will propagate through all of my Adobe Creative Suite applications the way I need them to. I really need to dial this in.

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General Update

May 7th, 2009

As much as I’d love to channel all my energy and attention to refining this web site, more important obligations are demanding my immediate attention. I have a few substantial graphic design assignments I need to continue to work on, including a revision to my own personal portfolio.

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ianspiers.com redesign

May 6th, 2009

It’s been two years since my last blog post; a site overhaul is grossly overdue. I stripped the old site from the server last night and installed WordPress and migrated all of my old Movable Type blog entries into WP this morning. Things are a bit dull and messy at the moment, but it’s a start. I have a lot of ideas, research and development ahead of me.

Stay tuned.

Holding Patterns

April 16th, 2007

A bizarre miscommunication was brought to my attention last Wednesday. Despite the fact that emails had been exchanged regarding my last day of work at my current assignment, apparently my direct report and I didn’t actually have a clear and mutual understanding of the end of my contract. As a result, I’m finding my self on this job with no real end in sight.

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Typography Nerd

January 31st, 2007

Yep, that’s me. I found myself at work looking for some documentation on font usage for one of the pieces I’m typesetting. The language I’m scrutinizing appears in English, Spanish and French. I’m not sure what the rules are for the translations,

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Housecleaning

January 27th, 2007

FedEx delivered a new 500 Gb LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme to me last Thursday. I’ve spent the better part of this afternoon organizing my new image library. The entire collection is currently weighing in at just over 200 Gb with images dating back to 2000. (And I haven’t even turned my attention to the batch scans I’ve collected from personal and family albums yet!)

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The Hard Way

January 26th, 2007

Many years ago, I was visiting my brother on a late Saturday morning. He was in his living room, sitting on his couch, watching a motorcycle race on TV. He made a comment about one of the racers, saying something about brakes on a motorcycle. Not being raised around the sport like my brother was, I asked him to explain.

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Recap

December 29th, 2006

The big hand’s winding its way around to 2007. It’s been a long time since my last post. A lot’s happened. Changes are in motion.

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KLC to MT

May 9th, 2006

After a lot of conversations with my friend, Cory, over the last couple of years regarding his web site, karmalawchance.com, he’s finally switched from ASP to Movable Type. Cory admits that he really doesn’t know that much about web design, but his proficiency with code is unimpeachable. Knowing that I’ll directly benefit from whatever in depth dialogue he and I can share after he gets his feet wet, I’m really looking forward to seeing his site flourish.

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