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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.

  I grew up on Iliff Street, right in the middle of the ashes that up until a few nights ago, was a sunkissed neighborhood known as Pacific Palisades. It was 1978, and I remember my dad climbing up on o...

• 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...

• Interview: The ESPN.com Redesign » Mike Industries

  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

  We’re having a bit of a disagreement in the office about the meaning of the word “several”. Since such a vague term is only meaningful based on what the population thinks of it, I thought it best to ...

• 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...