Peep this graphic design Venn diagram

Leading today’s Denver Blogs round-up is a post that not-so-subtly explains the realities of paying for graphic design. You can have great and fast graphic design, but you’ll get what you pay for, opines the Denver Egotist, but originally created by graphic designer Colin Harman on his blog…

Reader: Chris Romer deserves to be Shmuck of the Decade

Where there’s smoke, there’s ire! Last year at this time, state senator Chris Romer was gearing up to push a measure through the Colorado Legislature that would get Colorado’s booming medical marijuana industry under control — and as thanks, our readers have just voted him Shmuck of the Year (the…

Off Limits: No offense!

Editor’s note: We broke this story on our Latest Word blog before this issue went to print. Read the whole story by Jonathan Shikes: “The ‘condo people’ get f*cked; Golden’s Buffalo Rose won’t be punished for telling them off”…

Reader feedback on our Jesus cover: “Divine irreverence is refreshing”

“O Scum All Ye Faithful,” Josiah Hesse, December 23 We’ve Got You Covered I picked up a copy of Westword at a Greenwood Village coffee shop near my office after seeing the punk-rock Jesus on the cover. I’m a member of Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch and was…

Rick Griffith has designs on Denver. Bold ones.

The admonition greets visitors as they arrive for MATTER’s eleventh annual print sale and party. High on a wall of the design studio’s cavernous warehouse space on Market Street, the two-color screen-print poster warns in severely modified Helvetica Bold: “You may not steal the font library here, nor may you…

And our Shmuck of the Year winner is…

All he had to do was not say something stupid and it’s possible that we would now be getting ready to inaugurate Scott McInnis Colorado’s next governor. After all, the Republican surge — led by the anti-Obama Tea Party segment — turned the elections into a near-bloodbath for Democratic candidates…