Monthly Archives: May 2007

My commencement speeches

By Manuel Martensen | Published: May 18, 2007
I love com­mence­ment speeches. They give me a huge inspir­a­tional kick in the ass.  You’ve probably heard Steve Jobs speech at Stanford in 2005 —  it’s a classic. Here is another one, by Khoi Vinh (who leads the online design team for the NY TIMES) and it comes with a very appealing title (to me at least): 14 years of failure
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Logo for Lafays Clothing

By Manuel Martensen | Published: May 13, 2007
After fiddling around with a trillion fonts (and zillions of hours of hacking and stabbing them) i just took a pen and a napkin and scanned my fancy hand­writ­ing in — I know it’s not perfect, the big L is a bit too wide and the small f misses some girly curly swing at the bottom, but the client is happy and needed [...]
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Seperated after birth?

By Manuel Martensen | Published: May 13, 2007
Looks like that the City of Prince George and supercool one-of-manuels-favs Fashionlabel Fenchurch Clothing share the same DNA. When i look at those two wild Rascals, i shure can tell that they have the same mother. Question is, do those two know about each other? And who will tell?
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