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A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

Today, just a little more than six years after the dream began, it’s time to announce my departure from the Walt Disney Company.

On May 15th, 2003, I drove a car stuffed with every worldly possession I could smash in it, to California to begin my life as a Disneyland Cast Member. That day, my birthday, I embarked on what would become the most amazing adventure I could have possibly wished for.

My heart is full right now as I try to find a way to express the deep sadness, and giddy anticipation I’m feeling.

I truly love Disney. I love what it stands for, and the legacy Walt Disney left behind. And I love the people. I love those real down-to-earth people who embody the essence of what Guests have grown to expect from Disney. True pioneers. Pillars of talent & creativity that I have had the great fortune to learn from.

Then why leave?

I’m in a new place in my life, a place where I want to spread my creative wings a little more independently. There are a few big things I want to create. I won’t give too much away now, but you can expect a launch this year.

Still, even though I’ve decided to chase a new adventure, I believe Disney is wonderful. There is not a finer group of people on this planet. I will always proudly speak of the time I was fortunate enough to spend as a Disney Cast Member.

So what now?

For now, in between feverishly working toward a launch of some new products, I’ll be ramping up my consulting work. I’ll even happily be keeping a few Disney divisions on as clients after my departure.

That said, I am looking to fill a few holes in my schedule for the next month or so. If you have a project in the areas of User Experience, Collaberation, Web Design & Development or Live Entertainment Events that you’d like me to weigh-in on, please feel free to drop me a line.

I anticipate this blog will see a boost in content as well!

And so there it is… the announcement is made and the next adventure begins. I hope you’ll come along for the ride.

Free letterpress poster

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The winning tweet and tweeter have been chosen. The winner has been notified via Twitter Direct Message, and I’m just waiting to hear back on if he/she is alright with me announcing it.

Huge thanks to all of you who entered! Really, I had so much fun watching this take shape today. I literally woke up this morning and said to my wife “I think I’m going to do a twitter contest to give away a poster”… she nodded, and I started this post. I had no idea I would have so much fun. I will absolutely do this again soon.

So, let’s talk about how this all turned out…
The first plan was to have my puppy and 9 month old son choose the winner. I hadn’t worked out exactly how, but I was picturing a pile of entries printed on bacon wrapped gram crackers… the rest is fuzzy.

With very few options in the clearly under-served market of bacon wrapped gram crackers, I was forced to adopt a slightly more boring approach.

There were a total of 51 valid entries. Each entry was given it’s own line in a spreadsheet in chronological order of when the tweet was made. My lovely wife pointed me to the slick and simple random number generator at random.org that gave me a random number between 1 and 51. The tweet that fell on that line number was deemed the winner.

While it didn’t hold quite the magic of a slobber war between the baby and the dog, it got the job done.

So my friends. Thank you again, and stay tuned for I will definitely be holding another contest soon! (but if you don’t want to wait for the next contest, just buy a poster!!!

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I’ve seen this done all over Twitter & thought it might be fun to try on this otherwise mundane Tuesday.

I’m offering signed and numbered Magic In Type Castle Poster to a random tweeter. To enter, just re-tweet the following…

I just entered to win a Magic in Type letterpress poster! Follow @rustin & tag #magicintype to enter. http://bit.ly/OQkh8

I’ll be choosing a winner randomly today (Aug 11, 2009) at 6:00PM Mountain Time! You need to be following @rustin, and have tweeted the above message before the end of the contest to be eligible.

Now… go tweet!

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Lovely things

Designer/illustrator Jessica Hische can’t seem to stop putting wonderful things out into the world. First she released her first font, Buttermilk, which is just beautiful. Now she’s got some killer viney lettering letterpress posters up for sale.

Go check them out… seriously.
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Letterpress Posters

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -Walt Disney

As my wife can attest, this type castle project was always meant to be a letterpress poster. When I first started laying out the piece, about two years ago, I got all excited about how cool it would be to do a big letterpress poster of some Disneyland attractions all set in typography. I was so excited to share when I finally finished the artwork I decided to set it loose as a set of desktop wallpapers, but that was more of a fun little tangent than anything. Letterpress was always the goal.

Life threw a few curve balls to slow me down a bit and it’s taken me a while to finally get the show on the road… but I’m very happy to officially announce the Magic in Type Castle Letterpress Posters are for sale in the new shop!

Since the posters aren’t quite off the press yet, I’m offering a pre-order discount of $25 per poster through August 1, 2009. If pre-ordering’s not your thing, just leave your email address in the box on the shop, and I’ll let you know when the posters are shipping.

And what would a post about a letterpress project be without a little print shop eye candy…

Introducing Typekit

Introducing Typekit

This will be huge.

Lagarto by Kimera

What an absolutely beautiful typeface.

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via designworklife

Alpine Script

Alpine Script

I originally saw Alpine Script over at the beautifully redesigned Letterhead Fonts, and today it crossed my path again in the MyFonts email newsletter.

I’m normally not a fan of brush scripts, but something about this face from Charles Borges de Oliveira catches me. I’m a fan.

Design Police

Design Police

Bring bad design to justice.
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Best music video ever

As I mentioned in the about section of this site, there was a regularly updated blog in this space from 2004 until late 2007. All those nuggets of wonderfulness I created for the site are now archived, hidden away from the world.

I thought it might be fun to pull some of those bits out of the archive from time to time in a bit of a series I’m going to call… …wait for it… “From the Archive”

This little gem is from a post on June 17, 2006. I really think it stands on it’s own.

Please enjoy this wonderfully choreographed version of I wanna love you tender.

Mr. Blu Bird on my shoulder…

Today, I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine. Please say hello to Mr. Blu Bird! This little guy will sit on your shoulder and tweet happy little disney messages in your ear all day long.

mr_blu_birdWell, that last bit isn’t entirely true… but pretty close.

How this all came about

The story on this one isn’t particularly long or interesting. Sometime around the end of last week I thought it might be cool to check out the Twitter API. I didn’t have any particular project in mind, just wanted to see what it was all about.

Come to find out that the API is really awesome, and totally dead simple to use.

So I whipped up a little rails app after work and started to mess with things. All-in-all, development time spent on this was less than 6 hours. I spent a lot more time sorting out the details of it’s deployment. With the use of the new and totally awesome Feedzirra ruby feed library, deployment on a shared host just wasn’t going to be an option (though I did beat my head on that wall for the better part of Sunday night). I just couldn’t make all the custom gem requires play nice, so I reverted back to the always stellar Slicehost.

I swear, every time I’m frustrated with another host for some project or another, I end up back at Slicehost and they never disappoint. So with a new slice up, I had my little project deployed in under 30 minutes.

So, that’s really that. I just wanted to get my hands dirty with the Twitter API. I plan to add some cool features since I really had fun getting this far.

I hope you like it!

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