I was invited to speak at PechaKucha Night, Buenos Aires June 30th, 2009 by May Groppo from Paste.  It was a great time with awesome presenters.  Muy Buena Onda!

Photos by:
Guillermo Damián Fernández
www.bluevertigo.com.ar
www.gferna.com.ar

Laptop Skins available at http://www.pasteonline.com.ar/

If you live in Denver keep an eye out for  two new outer-space theme Reading Rocket bookmobiles. The fun and colorful bookmobiles were created through generous funding by Janus Mutual Funds for the Denver public library system to encourage reading and literacy in children. The first over-sized van hit the road a few weeks ago and will be followed by a second in April with a different funky space-age design. The trucks will deliver books to children at different locations throughout the city including a number of area public schools.

Here are some pictures from an event I was invited to talk at in Cordaba, Argentina.  

Paper or Plastic? Neither!

Long lasting construction at a great price.

They benefit the planet thrice:

• Made from used grain sacks and plastic water bottles.
• They replace disposable supermarket bags.
• 1% of sales fund programs of The Nature Conservancy worldwide.

They will be available very soon at blueq.com

Here is an upcoming letterpress print .. if you are interested in it .. please join my mailing list and I will notify you when it’s available.

Here is a new children’s book I am working on … it’s about an Octopus’s adventure.

Olive’s biodegradable poop bags. The bags are made naturally from GMO-free corn starch and vegetable oil, are certified 100% biodegradable and compost in as little as 40 days. They come in two sizes - Unisex (small) and Super Poop (large) – and are available online at www.olivegreendog.com.

Design: Modern Dog
Illustration: Nate Williams

For a long time I have been looking for the ideal solution to easily record and retrieve ideas.

ANALOG

Sketchbooks,  random pieces of papers and napkins are great for sketching and writing down ideas  … but it’s not the best medium to recall and ideas.  I can never remember which sketchbook a specific idea was in and over the years this only gets more complicated.  There isn’t really a good way to organize these ideas in the physical world even if you try to categorize these ideas in folders. (I will explain below)

DIGITAL

The digital medium has the opposite problem .. it’s great for retrieving ideas through search, browsing, tagging, etc … but isn’t so great for recording ideas.  Ideas happen spontaneously and a lot of the time when you have an idea, all that is available to remember it is a napkin, a piece of paper .. or maybe a sketchbook.  I have tried PDA’s … but they seem to be limited for one reason or another and some don’t have sketching capabilities.  Half the time when I have an idea I don’t have the PDA with me, it’s out of batteries or it’s too much of a pain to input a complex idea with diagram, notes, etc .. and pen and paper is much easier, fluid and spontaneous..

digi-LOG – So here is a great free solution … EVERNOTE

Here is a DEMO of how it works.

update: Evernote is a better solution because it syncronizes over all platforms (ipod, blackberry, computer and web)

For more ideas that are intended to help illustrators check out:

http://www.n8w.com/wp/category/illustrator-help

and

http://www.illustrationmundo.com/questions.php

More hand lettering samples for Mike Gordon’s album