Graphic Design.
Process, Craft, then Inspiration
My Approach
Be Precise. Be Consistent. Be Efficient.
Know the Client. Know the Audience. Know the Tools.
Stories.
From then. From now. From tomorrow.
Welcome to Alexander Lyman Design
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…
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Adobe Illustrator tools you may have missed, the Vertical Align Tool for area text.
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…
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Frostbite Orckings, an all-AI Original Band
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…
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“Accidental Empires” and Graphic Design
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…
Sometimes a good rant is what it takes.
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,…
Craft Versus Art in Design
How craft can distinguish a productive designer from a cheap one.
Welcome to Alexander Lyman Design
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…