Ben Swift – creative geek : artist designer illustrator drummer DIY

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I bought an old book ($2 at Goodwill) called Heraldic Design, by Hubert Allcock, published by Tudor Publishing Company, 1962.

Note: this post was originally written Feb 29, 2008, but never published. I am glad that this artifact remains. I guess we are

I have had a (at least one) website since 1997. I have been on different types of servers, different hosts, different domain n

I have to thank my friend Jeremy (https://escapepodtank.com/) for the gift he gave me for my birthday last year, the book R

Happy 3rd day of 2017. I’m bringing this website back to life. I need to reorganize the portfolio, and I will get around

buy me? give me a home! getting to the end of 2014 here, I’m working on some analysis and planning for the future. This

Today is the first day of December 2014. A lot has happened this year, as I suspect, has happened every year. Much will happen

Let’s see. OH YEAH! Tomorrow night is the opening of “Oodles of Doodles” – my group art show with Ryan

It is with a kind of “didn’t sleep last night but wanted to and still want to” sort of head that I am confro

The F-BOMB show is over, and I must thank everyone who bought a piece! THANK YOU! Of course, I still have a ton of the “

My little comic lettering collage obsession may be bearing an end… at least for one particular little word. The F-BOMB s

I guess I’m into word art right now! I’m kind of stuck on a particular word, but I’m thinking about branchin

Had a few unsold pieces from my show at Screen Ink Gallery. I thought I’d post them here – in case you are interes

I’m going to start working on some more regular updates, bi-weekly I suppose. I also want to start what Ryana has called

“Every now and then you come across a song that you feel may change your life, or maybe the world.” I wrote that s

All puns aside- your socks look pretty haggard. They look like a used tire. They are discolored and worn, they have achieved a