General Update

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Ian

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

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Ian

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.

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Holding Patterns

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Ian

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

Posted on January 31, 2007 by Ian

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

Posted on January 27, 2007 by Ian

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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