Reflecting on the past year reminds us how fortunate we are to be a part of this community. We’d like to thank all friends, partners, and employees of Randall Branding Agency for your support in 2015. We work hard, we play hard, and it’s time to celebrate! So cheers, stay safe, and we’ll catch you in 2016.
1. My first car was a 1993 Ford Explorer. I was the first of my friends to get a license, so I hauled us all over creation for about a year. At some point, we dubbed it the Chand Van. Every time I hear a Michael Franti song, it takes me back to that car and all the road trips we had.
2. My dad is a third generation farmer. I was born and raised on his farm in Shacklefords, Virginia, where he’s famous for his butterbeans! Sadly I didn’t inherit his green thumb.
3. I started working at fourteen, scooping ice cream and selling penny candy at a general store in Maine. I loved that job so much I worked there for eight summers.
4. My favorite quote is from Shawshank Redemption. Andy tells Red, “…get busy living or get busy dying.” It’s a pretty dark quote from a pretty dark film, but it reminds me that every day we’re given is one less day we have, and we should always make the most of it.
5. When I was little, I had a pair of Barney boots. They were winter boots (puffy and purple with fleece lining) that I wore year-round, even in the heat of summer. I also had an extreme aversion to pants. I basically started the leggings and boots movement back in ’94.
6. I love Christmas, Christmas Eve especially! My favorite traditions are the candlelit church service, baking almond cookies with my Mom, and eating raclette with the family (a dish we picked up visiting Montreal a few Christmases ago).
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We teamed up with the fine people at Torx Media for a monthly Lunch and Learn series in Suite 200. Just like Keynote slides and Jojo’s buff chick pizza, we go great together, and decided to share the fun on our blog!
Megan kicked off our design team’s two-part presentation with an abridged history of typography, à la Mean Girls. Here are the highlights.
Meet Johannes Gutenberg. We hear his beard is insured for $10,000. Gutenberg built a press and invented movable type. Movable type is what distinguishes typography from everything that came before it (think hieroglyphics and illuminated manuscripts). Then Gutenberg used his big ol’ brain and his beard full of secrets to print the first book, the Gutenberg bible.
Before the press, your basic 200-page book required four to five months of labor by a scribe. Gutenberg’s letterforms were based on this kind of penmanship and we call the style blackletter today.
