I'm a print and web designer, Professor in the Interactive Media Design program at Confederation College, one half of eleven-seventeen, sailor, vintage computing enthusiast, husband, and father.
Mike Monteiro is helping bring to light that fact that graphic/web design is an ‘unprofessional profession’ (to steal a poignant phrase from Andy Rutledge). How is it that, nearly a century after the formation of the AIGA, designers still don’t know what they’re doing and why?
More ›Despite being on the water for four frustrating days, our time in Duluth was short and to the point. As a result of the extended time on the water, we had less time to turn around and deliver the boat back to Thunder Bay, and so we needed to keep celebrations short, resupply quickly, and […]
More ›The Trans-Superior Race is held every two years. Beginning at Gros Cap light just outside Sault Ste. Marie. Ontario, and ending 338 nautical miles west at the suspension bridge in Duluth, Minnesota, it is the longest fresh-water race in the world. It usually takes about three days to complete; obviously faster if you’re a bigger […]
More ›We left Houghton in the early afternoon of August 3rd, the day after finishing the International. The intention was to deliver through the evening and night to Munising, on Lake Superior’s south shore, then overnight again to Whitefish Point for a break, then continuing on to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, arriving Wednesday evening or Thursday […]
More ›I have just recently returned from something of a self-broadening event: roughly 800 nautical miles of traversing Lake Superior, first one way, then another, then yet one more. It sounds lovely, sailing for two weeks with friends, but ‘lovely’ is not a word that I can honestly apply to this series of trips, of experiences. […]
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