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I am a sucker for good design and I love business cards. Here is a compilation from GOMEDIAZINE of 15 totally cool business cards that make me drool.

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I saw a great idea on the blog, Apartment Therapy.
You’ve seen or heard about chalkboard paint? Well this is Dry-Erase paint! Having just been in the market for and then bought a dry erase board I was intrigued. Too late for me but someone else should take advantage of this great product idea and tell me is it as good as it sounds?

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The client is always right The client is always right. The client is always right. The client is always right. The client is always right. If I had a chalk board I would write this 500 times like Sister Loretta Joesph would have us do in the fifth grade if we got caught doing something wrong. In my case it is about getting frustrated with the dance that we do as designers, working with what the client wants and what they “should” do. Of course the problem is the “should” is always from our perspective. And I do have to admit that , Gasp….I am not always right.

Usually when someone comes to me

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Check out this wordle for New Tricks!

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It’s always a sign that something’s up when I don’t post for a week or so. So in the past two weeks, I have started a new business. Actually, I have named a business that I was basically doing under the auspices of JC Knight Properties,Inc which sounds kind of BLAND. It also really does not go with what I am doing. So what Am I Doing? Our new name is New Tricks Design. The idea is that my design work is a little different than the ordinary ho hum. It is on the edge without being edgy. I have always seemed to have a knack for getting in on a trend on the front end of the spectrum. After the building

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I was whining to our Bed and Breakfast guests this weekend, about the news of the closing of my favorite design magazine. Tom and Judy had not had a chance to become acquainted with this plucky little Design rag so I ran and brought them a stack just to show how much they have missed. I just got an e-mail from Tom, with a link to a coincidental article he found this morning in the Palm Beach Post about Domino that falls into the category of things I wish I wrote. Although I must say, Nicole Neal, of the Palm Beach Post, sums up my feelings for the demise of Domino magazine much better than I did, or could.

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Recently, my loft was featured on the Apartment Therapy blog .
They asked me about the inspiration for my use of color and I said,

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I have been faithfully purchasing Domino from the newsstand each and every month for the last several years. This Christmas when the kids were asking for Christmas present ideas from me, I put Domino on my list. I was very sad to learn that they are closing this magazine with its accessible, creative, design ideas for real people. I am glad that I have saved the back issues so I can go over them again and again while waiting for the new edition that never comes.

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Nina Rubin of Voted off the Island turned me onto this amazing artist/designer Maira Kalman. She blogs for the New York Times and recently posted a series of drawings from her trip to Washington for the Inauguration. I loved her drawings of the black women in hats and the black woman guard at the National Gallery. In fact, I thought she was black, but she isn’t.

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