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		<title>Re-Directing you to my new blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, I have a new blog where I am posting my thoughts, ideas, musings and others. Please take a look at Temperamental Muses and tell me what you think! Hope to see you there! Filed under: design + life<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almahoffmann.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3464159&amp;post=1297&amp;subd=almahoffmann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Thanksgiving is not</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Thanksgiving Day, a national holiday intended and dedicated to offer thanks to God for the bounty of the year. Though, for many it is a day to gather with family and friends to offer thanks to each other and plainly just say thanks. To me, is just another day. Let me explain. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almahoffmann.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3464159&amp;post=1266&amp;subd=almahoffmann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How working as a housekeper helped me be a better designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 15, 2010 Syed Balkhi founder of WordPress beginner tweeted the following: A half done project is just as good as an incomplete project. This simple quote reminded me of a job I held many years ago as a housekeeper for a well-known hotel chain. I relocated to the Continental United States in 1993. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almahoffmann.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3464159&amp;post=1254&amp;subd=almahoffmann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SECAC 2010 Southeastern College Art Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SECAC-MACAA Richmond, VA October 21-24, 2010 This year SECAC was held in Richmond, VA in partnership with Mid-America College Art Association hosted by the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. I had proposed a panel titled Research and Design: A match made in Heaven or Hell and it got accepted. I had very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almahoffmann.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3464159&amp;post=1235&amp;subd=almahoffmann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability or lack thereof…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“do you mean to tell me that you are not going to replace the battery?” On July 24th of this year I took my iPhone to the Apple store nearest to me because its battery was shutting down in less than an hour. I bought a 3G phone on November 4th, 2008. I still had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almahoffmann.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3464159&amp;post=1205&amp;subd=almahoffmann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiration, ideas, creativity, and the genius</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, my good friend Nate Burgos from Design Feast sent me a link to a recorded presentation on TED by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, and Love. I watched the video and it affected me profoundly. She talked of course about  her book and how its popularity had indeed, according to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almahoffmann.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3464159&amp;post=1175&amp;subd=almahoffmann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I could not resist…</title>
		<link>http://almahoffmann.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/i-could-not-resist%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.&#8221; — Andy Warhol These are the words of the famous pop artist and designer in the 1960&#8242;s. Little did he know then how the Internet would transform the immediacy of communications and how it would affect us. Nothing seems to go unnoticed and unknown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almahoffmann.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3464159&amp;post=1156&amp;subd=almahoffmann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BUS EXPO 2010— Lessons learned</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been exactly 2 months since my last post. Somehow between teaching and doing the daily designs (#daily365 for those of you who do twitter searches), time has just flown by. While those two months were going by, many ideas for posts came to me but somehow they would not materialize. I guess that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almahoffmann.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3464159&amp;post=1073&amp;subd=almahoffmann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful paragraph… how I love thee.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inherent to layout and typographic design is the use of the paragraphs. Usually other layout elements such as headers, sub headers, captions, quotation marks, quotes, captions, margins, page numbers tend to get all the attention the designer has to spare. Sometimes this is due to the project requirements. In the case of web layouts it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almahoffmann.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3464159&amp;post=1029&amp;subd=almahoffmann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was it honest?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a story to tell you. My friend who we shall refer to as Designer S, was hired by Agency Q. Creative Director L did not live up to his promises. That did not stop Designer S from coming up with ideas. Some time went by and one morning a brainstorm session occurred about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almahoffmann.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3464159&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=almahoffmann&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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