Category: My Journey
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Gamer wedding design
I’ve been absent from posting for a while as I prepared for my wedding (which just occurred on 2/16). I’m happy to share some of the designs I created as part of my wedding planning. My husband Paul and I share a video game hobby, so that was the theme of our reception. The first…
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One set of hands behind it all
One of the things that makes a design look good is if it looks like it was created by one set of hands. This kind of cohesion is hard to get right, but it’s easy to see when it’s wrong. I do a lot of presentation design and it’s that problem you see where someone…
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Designer = Master or Jack?
In reading slide:ology by Nancy Duarte, a book all about presentation design, I begin to wonder whether a great designer is a master in one area or a jack of all trades. There are general design principles that everyone must know and use regardless of their medium (composition, color, content, flow), but what about the…
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Lessons from Pragmatic Programmer
I’m about half-way through the book right now. I’m skimming through some of the more technical sections since I don’t know the programming languages they are using for their examples. (I really only know HTML/CSS with any level of mastery.) Still, I’ve found that some of the more general concepts can easily apply to design.…
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Personal business cards
The back side of the card was actually the easy part. As part of this new domain launch I came up with the idea of the four banners to represent my interests. It made sense to use those on my card as well. The front side of the card was harder. I wanted to make…
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