How to be an effective player-coach. Balancing execution and management
Being an effective player-coach can be difficult. Establishing and adhering to a set of rules is the best way to stay ahead.
How to use a Brand Style Guide Effectively
Let’s go over why you need a Brand Style Guide, what happens when you don’t, and how to use the guide effectively.
5 Team Building Activities for New Leadership
Are you a new leader in your department and need to bond with your team? try these team building activities.
My DC You Game Show Pitch
DC You, a now defunctcontest hosted by DC Universe asked for entries to develop content for the media giant. Here’s my losing entry.
The Headless Horseman: A DC Comics Green Lantern story
A Headless Horseman synopsis set in the DC universe. Just in time for Halloween! Just ask Starbucks. Pumpkin spice everything…
Pop Culture Graphic Design Show Design Behind The Mask Podcast launches!
Design Behind The Mask Podcast covering graphic design and user experience in pop culture fandoms launches in July 2022 The design and entertainment show covers typography, color phycology, logo design, branding, and content in comics, video games, movies and tv....
Kraven The Hunter and retconning established characters for movies
Kraven The Hunter is a Marvel villain whose sole reason for existing is to hunt and kill the biggest and most dangerous game. His obsession leads him to hunt and eventually kill Spider-Man in Kraven’s Last Hunt. He’s decidedly a lousy guy and one of the...
Amazon and Comixology collide with disastrous design results
Digital comic book lovers are in a very justifiable tizzy. Amazon and ComiXology are now one. Actually, let me be more colorful. Amazon ate ComiXology and pooped out a crApp that currently pales compared to the original ComiXology experience. User digital comic book...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update stole my ideas!
Not really, but totally did. At the height of Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ popularity in 2020, I found the product lacking in features. The longevity of the game was in question by fans since you couldn’t really interact with all the items within the...
How to build a brand and community simultaneously
I am a community manager (for lack of a better term) for a group of parents who love playing Destiny 2. It’s called Dadstiny and it’s a subgroup of The Dad on Facebook. When I pitched and ultimately created the group, I didn’t think three years on I...
The typographic simplicity of Control
The typographic simplicity of Control: Design Behind The Mask Can we touch on the typographic simplicity of the fantastic game Control? The video game developed by Remedy Entertainment centers around a shadowy government agency dabbling in the supernatural. You play...
