Archive for the ‘ design ’ Category
In an attempt to improve my personal blog and try to increase my blogging enthusiasm, I signed up for IndieBizChicks.com’s September Blogging Special. It is a month-long “eClass” that includes daily emails with blogging tips and prompts. I may not be able to do all of the blogging prompts, but I am going to try [...] Related posts:country fair photo montage My favorite links from BlogHer BlogHer 2010 – day 1 [ READ MORE ]
I know, I know… you are most likely sick of hearing about the lady blogging conference. I apologize for being so single-minded lately, but I feel like I need to write down all of the good info I picked up at BlogHer before it slips out of my mind and is lost forever! Wow. That [...] Related posts:BlogHer 2010 – day 1 check out some new blogs BlogHer. wow. [ READ MORE ]
So… I am not really sure I want to tell you about this lovely website that I recently found. You see, it is a giveaway site that has really fantastic daily giveaways that you can enter just by leaving a comment. If I tell you about it, then you will enter all the giveaways and [...][ READ MORE ]
When we ventured out to Soho on Saturday, one of my intended stops was the Kate Spade flagship store on Broome St. I had heard about a cool neon tape art installation by Rebecca Ward and wanted to check it out in person. Rebecca Ward is an installation artist who creates colorful, site-specific environments using [...][ READ MORE ]
Already done with my thing-a-day creation for today! I had been planning to make downloadable Swap-bot Valentines this year and I am so happy that I actually made the time to do it. I designed two cute Valentine cards – one with Ernie, the Swap-bot logo/mascot, and one with Crusher – and a little matching [...][ READ MORE ]
Quick post today: For my thing-a-day today, I am counting the graphics I made for Craft Critique (the one above is an example). But, I also wrote a nice write-up of last night’s Craft Night on the Swap-bot blog and I put together this photo matchbox tutorial on the Etsy blog. It was a busy [...][ READ MORE ]
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I have been working hard over the last two days helping a colleague with some design work. The icons above are related to the project. I did all of the illustrations for them from scratch and I am pleased with how they turned out. They are intended to represent the many different categories of crafting [...][ READ MORE ]
New year, same work. Productivity is my goal, but my mind keeps flitting around between all off my different projects and duties. I like to have variety, but sometimes I wish I was better at staying on task! Today I fit in some design work for Swap-bot and set up an email newsletter system for [...][ READ MORE ]