John Ziebro

Print and web designer extraordinaire

Archive for October, 2006

Work & School - The Deadly Duo

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

My typography project is due tomorrow. Hopefully, I can get it finished this afternoon and printed. I would like to hang out with Sarah this afternoon since she is in town and I didn’t get to see her yesterday. I spent the morning installing oscommerce at The Chapel today. Definitely not a user friendly installation […]

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Great!

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Just a quick note… received a consecutive 100% on my 2nd Logic exam. Also, I noticed that I have done something to mess up the layout in the blog… it might look fine, but try opening it in Firefox! Sheesh, Ill look into this when I have time at the end of the week (probably […]

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There and Back Again

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

I just spent the weekend on a whirlwind roadtrip to Nashville and back. Matt, a long time friend, took a job at Belmont University and needed help moving. After loading up a truck, Jayson, Matt and I headed out early Saturday morning. For a 500 mile trip we made good time and arrived around dinner. […]

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design.redesigned

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

When I have time to spare I sometimes do a quick doodle or come up with an idea for a design. In that vein, while taking a break from Typography homework today, I redesigned a word document flyer I received for a Halloween party. The name was so descriptive that I felt it needed some […]

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Linotype FontExplorer X

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

I happened across a reference to Linotype’s FontExplorer X in a forum today so I decided to check it out. The initial draw was that it is free. A free font management tool? Can it really compete with the likes of Extensis Suitcase? Well my short answer is yes.
The user interface is very much […]

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