Every site is in-progress, some more so than others. Alexander Lyman Design is a new company and will have its own stories to tell. With those stories there will also be anecdotes from my history, probably with an unhealthy dose of “get off my lawn” and “when I was a boy,” and more contemporary observations…
A few years ago, a proposal manager asked me my opinion whether their proposal was compliant with the RFP’s proposal presentation requirements. Specifically, they were asking about “Single Spaced Text.” My answer was something to the effect of “the Government’s opinion is the one that matters, not mine.” Then I offered to do some research….
How much have I missed? Since 2001, Adobe has updated Illustrator almost annually. Sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less. That was true until 2 things happened around 2012/2013. Adobe changed from purchased licenses to a software-as-a-service subscription model and Creative Suite was renamed Creative Cloud. Being able to push software updates from a…
Artificial Intelligence is on the cusp of solving a lot of problems, and perhaps causing many more. Plagiarism is one of the big problems for artists. If an AI is being trained by work already produced, it opens all sorts of legal issues. SCOTUS isn’t helping, with somewhat conflicting rulings in Andy Warhol Foundation for…
30-ish years ago at my first design firm, Robert X. Cringely’s “Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date” was required reading. Cringely covers how the modern desktop computer came into being. Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center are…
From time to time you have to let it all out. Scream into your pillow. Throw breakable things. Vent your spleen. Metaphorically, of course. Deep breaths can help you get to where you can get through whatever it is, but if you are the type to just push it all down into some hidden corner…