observing design

This one reminds me of the type of cool infographics we used to see in the local paper (San Jose Mercury News, are you alive?) Well, not exactly. This illustration is hella cool. I mean, it features a hipster! And, it’s in color. But anyways, for some reason it reminds me of that stuff. Do newspapers do those anymore? I never see them. All the “infographics” related to news these days comes from blogs or maybe some graphic design student. Anyhow, I advise you to try out these techniques. I am.

Good to know.

It’s the Bush-era tax cuts, duh.

I guess if you don’t go anywhere else, it’s a lot easier to think that where you’re from is The Greatest Place On Earth. But if you do go other places, you might have a little more nuanced view of your place relative to the rest of society. U!S!A!