top of page
Mr Juul Pickles.jpg

Mr. Pickles and I would like to thank the thousands of students who have come through our doors seeking an education in the arts. There are so many of you who are so talented and deserve your success! I am thankful beyond words I had the small amount of time to share my life and experiences with you. Everyone showed up not knowing what would happen and looking to learn a few things -- me included. What we created was something truly special within public education. I learned so much when I wasn't even planning on it. While doing so, I wound up having so much fun that 25 years have passed by! Words of wisdom, wheel spins, pudding wrastling, Chuck E Cheese, SPIFFS, field trips, guest speakers, SkillsUSA competitions, thumbnails, Winter Olympics, Pie day, grilled Cheese Sammich day, cold pizza and root beer day, hands in pockets fast walking, kickball exam review, Star Wars Holiday Special, love bags and so, so much more. It wasn't what we did or said it was how we made each other feel and while here, I felt like a million bucks working with such talented and awesome students who I hope all grow up to be just as decent people. I did not dislike teaching (until my last 3 years) and in fact told anyone who would listen this was my job -- I got to go to work until about 2pm and work with really talented teenagers who don't know it... then I get to go home and do other things. It never felt like a job.  It has been my pleasure to be your instructor. Keep being creative, keep supporting the arts, and keep an open mind and bring a pencil!

JOB OPPORTUNITIES
CONTESTS
SKILLS USA
SCHOLARSHIPS
DESIGN TIPS
INDUSTRY WEBSITES

It's That Nice (Industry News & Inspiration)

Graphic Arts news (Industry News & Inspiration)

 

Graphic Design Beginners (Important Skills to Learn)

Creative Bloq (All Design News & Inspiration)

Digital Arts Online (All Graphic Design news)

Game Developer (Game Design news)

Graphic Design USA (Design news)

100 Inspirational Quotes For Designers

Visual News (Infographic Designs)

Dexigner (Art Design Fashion Contests)

Open Culture (Free Education/ Cultural Media)

Design Milk (Art & Technology)

Designer Daily (Daily weekly design tips for designers)

Designboom (Design Art Technology Architecture)

AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) (Professional Design Association)

The Dieline (Package Design news)

Design Crowd (Peep Jobs and Fun Contests)

UC Creative (Design news and resources)

Colossal.com (Art, Design, Illustrations, Photos)

Vector Diary (Your home for Adobe Illustrator Tips)

99U (Art Design - Adobe)


Graphic Design Career Roadmap & Salary

Dezeen Magazine (Architecture Design Technology)

Ad Week Magazine (Ad campaigns reviewed)

New Scientist (Science technology news)

TypeInspire.com (Typography Inspiration)

Wish Books (Old, department store product catalogs)

Packaging Of The World (Package Design news)


Salary.com Graphic Designers (How much do they earn)

Reddit's Crappy Design (Terrible design)

Random Choice Generator (Makes choosing easy)

CREATIVE TOOLS
GOOD READS

Legendary graphic artists / poster artist / illustrator Frank Kozik passes away

10 Iconic Breakfast Foods From The '90s We Wish We Had Back

Experience An Evening of Orchestrated Anime themes during a Candlelight Concert In Tampa

10 Ways To Make Money As A Graphic Designer

 

Fashion mogul Mary Quant passes away - inventor of the mini skirt

Mad Magazines Al Jaffee passes away

AI will turn graphic design on its head

Christoph Niemann on the illustration process of drawing everyday objects

Pepsi beverage rebrands

Fanta beverage redesign

Graphic Design Fails

Typography design 101: a guide to rules and terms

Remote Graphic Design Jobs: The Future of Work

Carin Goldberg, 69, Who Transformed Book and Album Cover Design, Dies

8 Places to Showcase Your Graphic Design if You Don't Have Any Clients

Getty Images is Suing Stable Diffusion for a Staggering $1.8 Trillion

Mickey Mouse OUT as Disney mascot! Yup - his copyright expired - NOT!

How I Got My Job: Making a Passion for Food Illustration a Full-Time Job

How people are making money on Canva and turning their graphic-design side hustles into full-time gigs

Warner Brothers celebrates 100 years

Seattle's schools are suing tech giants for harming young people's mental health

BMW's new colour - changing car concept is unreal

Smartphone addiction has been linked to decreased mental ability,

decreased personal self-control and psychological well-being

12 Graphic Design Trends for 2023 [Infographic]

 

A new identity for Chicago’s Institute of Design

 

Graphic Design News - It's Like That

The case for .JPEGXL         (Codec Comparison)

Twitter is in awe of the ingenious meaning behind the Wipeout logo

MinaLima’s Iconic Harry Potter Graphic Designs Collected In New Art Book 

Microsoft Designer using Dall-E AI

Guy records neighbors cat mumbling. Turns it into a song

How much to charge for logo design

Jobs in the Arts: Designing a Career You Love

Agata Yamaguchi’s minimalist posters grapple with life’s stranger moments

Five design and visual arts podcasts for keeping up with the creative industry

The new Studio Ghibli theme park

New animated Sonic logo = fans rejoice!

NFL Hispanic Heritage Month logo tie-in gets panned

Thumbnail sketches and why you need to use them

$5k bucks for eating cereal for dinner? Count me in!

Snoop Dogg releases Snoop Loops cereal

71 brilliant and inspirational ads that will change the way you think

Eight unexpected reasons why graphic design is a wise career choice

The coolest design trends of 2022

The Netflix logo history is checkered at best...

Pepsi's logo design document is pretty weird

AI may turn graphic design on its head.

General Mills to resurrect (and redesign) the Monster Cereals for Halloween

8 hottest graphic design trends in 2022

Dove's Disturbing Deepfakes Expose Social Media's Toxic Influence

on Teen Girls

9 Best Dragon Drawing Tutorials

Affinity Designer vs Adobe Illustrator

2022 logo design trends

Jens Müller picks five logos worth revisiting from 130 years of branding history

Are these the worst logos of 2022 so far?

Frequencies and their designs

Environmental graphic designs

Design Styles and Expansive Overview of Design

Incredible collection of vintage posters for auction

Apparently there are only 10 kinds of movie posters

Twelve Wicked Awesome Vector Artists

Ten most loathed fonts for graphic designers

The Role of Sketching in the Design Process

Eight hot trends in Graphic Design 2022

Cool examples of creative Typographic Portraits

Cool 2022 Font Design Trends

The eight types of graphic design

Looking For A Job?  January Job Openings For PCS Students

 

App design shows you how to learn sign language

Gig Economy Infographic - Earn money in your spare time

Graphic Design Students Gather Opinions on Race Through Library Display

 

19 Free design resources for students

Understand Disney's 12 principles of animation

Everything You Need to Know About Converting Illustrations to Digital Drawings

How graphic designers shape a more sustainable and ethical food system

Kraft Velveeta logo redesign

Bob Gill, Graphic Designer Who Elevated the ‘Message,’ Dies at 90

Papa Johns rebrands. What do you think?

What is Character Design — Tips on Creating Iconic Characters

Eight unexpected reasons why graphic design is a wise career choice

12 dogs. 12 emotions. 12 posters. 12 colourful illustrations.

5 Best Drawing Tablets for Designers & Illustrators 

​Interesting Infographic about the Industry of Design

The best takeaways from Adobe Max 21

How video games are designed to be addictive

Are you ready for the No Nestle November campaign?   The "why"   

What's new with Photoshop 2022

8 Graphic Design Trend Predictions For 2022

Will The Demand For Graphic Designers Diminish In The Near Future?

20 top sketching tips to help elevate your skills

Office merges tech, 3D and typographic systems into its detailed graphic design

 

Facebook has been rebranded

What school could be

Saul Bass designed movie posters for 'The Shining'  that were not used

Where can your creative curiosity take you? Explore the The Ulm School of Design’s digital archive on Dropbox

18 Essential Graphic Design Terms You Need to Know

 

50 Amazing graphic designers. View for inspiration!

 

Stumbling Blocks and Obstacles: How to Overcome Creative Ruts

Mental health charity Calm finds a new brand identity to aid their fight against UK suicides

 

The Biggest Typography Mistakes To Avoid

25 names every graphic designer should know

How to create a style guide

Cultivating a Sense of Creative Purpose

An Enormous 3D Calico Cat Greets Passersby at Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station

 

Volvo's new logo

8 typography trends of 2021

Giant rice straw creatures take over Japan

Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement dazzles in St. Pete.

Brazilian game designer Maruki's perfect pixel art.

 

Logo design: 15 golden rules for crafting logos

Demand for freelance writers, graphic designers and web developers has exploded since the start of the pandemic, fueling a growing gig economy

 

My landlord painted over a roach

Websitesfromhell.com

How can art and design bring people together to improve our mental health?

Fantasy Architectural Drawings By Alexandr Krylov

 

Pencil shading techniques: 5 expert tips

Animated Music Concert Festival Posters

How to craft a great logo

8 Ways To Get Your Imagination On Canvas

 

Jumpstart your career in digital design

 

Graphic Design Offers For Students

 

Employers Want to See Your Student Design Portfolio: Here’s How to Make It Exceptional

 

9 Ways Creativity Can Help Manage Anxiety

Should creatives be more dada? What we can learn from a movement that defied societal structures

Photographer 'macrofying' zooms into the depths of everyday objects to reveal new worlds

Campbells' Soup "updates" their logo. First change in 5 decades

Shepard Fairey’s LA Tourism Logo

The perspective drawing techniques of top illustrators

Adobe Illustrator tutorials: 72 lessons to boost your skills

Learn faster with the Adobe Photoshop Discover panel

bottom of page