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	<title>ALAN VALEK &#187; Blog</title>
	<link>http://www.alanvalek.com</link>
	<description>art direction + graphic design</description>
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		<title>Tony Hawk Ride XBOX 360 Giveaway</title>
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Thanks to all that entered the Wii contest last week — now let&#8217;s get to the XBOX 360 giveaway, same rules apply. Good luck!

And the winner is&#8230;..

Thanks to all who entered!!!!!

How to Enter:


Leave a comment and make sure you fill out the &#8220;email field&#8221; (emails are kept private).
That&#8217;s it.
Winner will be contacted via email on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2010/02/08/tony-hawk-ride-xbox-360-giveaway/</link>
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		<title>Tony Hawk Ride Wii Giveaway</title>
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I have a couple extra copies of Tony Hawk Ride that I would like to give away to visitors of my website as a thank you for stopping by. This week I&#8217;m giving away 1 (one) copy for the Nintendo Wii — next week I&#8217;ll have a XBOX 360 version to give away too&#8230;.
And the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2010/02/01/tony-hawk-ride-wii-giveaway/</link>
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		<title>Thank you&#8230;thank you very much.</title>
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With our Vegas Wedding in the books that meant the thank you cards were next on the list&#8230;what to do?..Elvis of course, glitter and all — Thank you&#8230;thank you very much. Check the play-by-play below&#8230;







The Process.

After cutting and scoring the paper I traced over the lettering with a glue pen — you can only do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2010/01/10/thank-you-thank-you-very-much/</link>
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		<title>Amazing Chapters.</title>
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If you&#8217;re looking for a new album to check out, look no further than The Dear &#38; Departed&#8217;s new EP &#8220;Chapters&#8221;, I picked it up last night from iTunes and haven&#8217;t been able to take it off repeat yet. The stand-out tracks for me are &#8220;It Looks Like Rain&#8221; &#38; &#8220;There for the Taking.&#8221; Take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2010/01/05/amazing-chapters/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Touched.</title>
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I have been honored this week by being included in the Concrete Wave Magazine iPhone Application as their featured designer showcasing 10 select graphics from my work with Baker Skateboards. Concrete Wave Magazine has done a great job with this app as well — clean design, very nice Twitter intergration, news section, fan wall, weekly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2010/01/05/im-touched/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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I wanted to take a minute and wish everybody a safe and happy new years. I would like to make a extra special shout-out to all my fellow Twitter peeps + fellow Facebookers (holla!!!) and not to mention my close friends &#38; family.  On top of everything else, 2009 was a very special year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2009/12/31/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Texas @ f/1.4</title>
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This Christmas the wifey and I headed to Texas for Christmas with the in-laws and I decided to give myself a little photo project — Shoot a bunch of pics with my favorite lens, the Canon 50mm, but shoot @ f/1.4 to make it interesting. I love the simplicity of the lens, not to mention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2009/12/28/texas-f1-4/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
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Just wanted to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas. Here&#8217;s some bad, but great holiday tunes via YouTube to get you in the spirit — enjoy your time with the family and be safe, take care everyone.











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		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2009/12/24/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Lookback: A BMX Mag Retrospective</title>
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Here&#8217;s a collection of Old School BMX Magazine Covers from over at 23mag.com, which by the way has many, many more on their site FYI. Looking at these again after all these years makes me remember the days of being so stoked to get my hands on the latest issue and see what all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2009/12/21/lookback-a-bmx-mag-retrospective/</link>
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		<title>Movie Poster Inspiration. Holiday Edition.</title>
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I can never get enough of movie poster designs so I figured with this being a huge movie season why not compile my current favorites with some upcoming movies from next year. I love trying to figure out how I think these are constructed — Photoshop&#8230;CG&#8230;a combo of both?&#8230;what font treatment ect., I get obsessed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2009/12/17/movie-poster-inspiration-holiday-edition/</link>
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