Last Friday I left the City of Brotherly Love for a trip to the American South. For my first ever visit to Alabama, I was heading to Greensboro to volunteer a couple days of my design time alongside a friend who works with HERO (Hale Empowerment & Revitalization Organization), a non-profit housing resource center. Greensboro [...]
Forty years ago, on April 22, Earth Day began as a massive grassroots movement (please excuse the pun) to raise awareness about environmental issues. The original demonstration attracted nearly 20 million people who engaged in marches and teach-ins. Today, Earth Day is a global phenomenon. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. Perhaps you’ve even used phrases like “carbon footprint” [...]
I limit myself to a strict allotment of three exclamation points per annum. This warrants my second of 2009. We just launched a 160over90 job board. Want to work with some really fantastic and talented people? Apply within, or bookmark it for a rainy day. Designer and Copywriter up now. Here are a five quick [...]
There comes a time in every girl’s life when she’s really got to ask herself: “Is she ready? Is she really leaving so soon?” Ready or not, life rolls on, and so must I. 15 weeks ago, I took the elevator up to the 10th floor of One South Broad Street, Philadelphia. I’ve made that [...]
Over the weekend I got the sudden urge to purge. No, not all the junk mail piling up around the home office. Nor the collection of Meatloaf and Ice-T CD’s (hey, sounds like dinner) gathering dust in a bin in the basement. It was my thick bristly mop of hair that needed removal to make [...]
Over the last 3-4 months I’ve found myself more interested in watching a documentary than a movie. All in all, I feel that I get more out of an information driven story than 90 minutes of punching and/or crying. It’s hard to argue that watching John-Claude in Kickboxer, Seth McDermott in Airborne, and Roddy Piper [...]
