March 2009

Madoff Helps NYC Man Win Lotto

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Totally unrelated to anything design, it's just an entertaining story of karma about a Queens construction worker named Ralph Amendolaro that played the lotto based on the last 3 digits of Madoff's prison number. He came away with $1500.

At the very least, at least someone could make some money off of Bernie Madoff.

Here are links to the Wall Street Journal and CBS News articles.

FLIR: Facelift Image Replacement

One of the most frustrating parts of designing for the web versus print is the limitation of font choices. There are only a handful of fonts you can use that every visitor is guaranteed to have if you want to keep the text selectable. In print design, you don't have that unique problem - Just do your layout and send it to production or generate a PDF and all is well.

The alternative, of course, is to make images for each headline or block of text that you want to have in a typeface and insert them into your webpage. Ordinarily, that works well enough.

Art Against AIDS 2009

The 2009 Art Against AIDS was last Thursday, February 26 at 6:00 PM at the River East Arts Center. If you haven't heard of it, it is one of Heartland Alliance's annual fundraiser events featuring food, drinks, entertainment and live/silent fine art auctions in support of HIV/AIDS research. I have donated artwork for the past 3 years and was an honorary co-chair of the event in 2008.

This year, the honorary co-chairs were: