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• Three Years in San Francisco » Mike Industries

  I had only been to San Francisco on random business trips and a couple of times with my family when I was very young. It seemed like a place I might live if I had never found Seattle. It was go-time …

• Mike Industries » A running commentary of occasionally interesting things — from Mike Davidson.

  We are living in the golden age of ice cream. In the 1970s, we had a few basic flavors to choose from: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, chocolate chip, mint chocolate chip, and rocky road. There were a...

• How To Properly Apply for a Design Position » Mike Industries

  Back in 2004, I wrote an article called “How to Make Friends and Influence Art Directors” that continues to get a surprising amount of traffic. In the course of opening up a new design position at New...

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  Interviewer: Eric A. Meyer, for Netscape Communications ESPN.com, the online sister of the ESPN cable networks, serves up more than half a billion page views every month, so when the home page of t...

• Interpretation of “Several” » Mike Industries

  Pat says: I always considered “several” to be approximately half of “seven”, since the words look like they’re derived from a common root. Since you’re usually talking about integers, that means 3...

• Originality in Logo Design » Mike Industries

  “Never waste a stroke.” That’s the best piece of advice you’ll ever get in logo design. However, it’s also advice that can inadvertently get you in trouble. Draw a blue circle on the screen and you’v...