July 2012
4 posts
Beer Label Collage
I finally made my beer label collage!
After almost a year of peeling, soaking, and obviously drinking, I acquired a pretty large collection of very cool beer labels.
This all started when I started to notice the beautiful art and typography on beer labels, and so I thought they would look even better all together!
So the process started by slicing off the government warnings on almost all the...
Guilty Pleasure Monday
I’ve decided Monday’s are my most guilty-pleasur-ey day. Therefore I will record my weekly guilty pleasures.
This week? The bachelorette…and maybe some company with Ben and Jerry (toffee almond crunch)
June 2012
3 posts
MAKING THE BIG MOVE!!
In less than 48 hours I will be moving into a new (amazing) apartment in San Francisco. Located in Central Richmond and/or Little Russia.
I can’t wait to mingle and meet new people, new designers, new inspiration, and new culture.
LETS DO THIS!!
(pics to come later)
SWEET website
I just came across this website this morning from HOW’s June top 10 websites for inspiration, it’s an agency called Bossa from NYC. It’s a sister company of another multimedia company called Hornet.
Bossa’s website has google earth integrated into it and they customize it all the way down to the street level, its absolutely mind blowing. Check it out here.
May 2012
11 posts
New HATHWAY website! →
Funny Stuff...could get lost in this blog. →
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Taming the Wild Mind
Designers might feel like creativity cannot be rushed or put under a schedule.
But dear golly it can be done!
Check out another killer article on smashing magazine by Marli Mesibov.
Taming the Wild Mind
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Hipster Branding
Hipster design has definitely become its own style.
check some redesigned logos hipster style Here.
Portfolio update
Updated my portfolio site a bit. added a main rotator and a new project!
Check it out here.
April 2012
33 posts
Great Design = Great Type
UX
I found this really nice article on Smashing Magazine about a very smart approach to UX design in which you match the user’s needs wants and weaknesses with the functionality or services to your website or app. This helps make sure your app isnt lacking on any one service that a user might need or even know he needs. The article provides a very simple visual graphic to explain further
find...
Web Trend Epidemic →
HOW Design Live conference 2012
I would do endless things to be able to go to this!!
HOW Design Live conference
Killer CSS Scrolling effects →
One Page Love -great one page scrolling... →
CSS 3-D
I saw this article on Smashing Magazine about how far SVG and CSS 3D can take animations on the web.
check out this experimental site for beercamp 2012.
Mini Cards
I just ordered some self promo mini cards from moo.com! They are a great company where you can easily customize your own business card.
Learn more about mini cards here!
Amazing one page scrolling site →
Social Media Propaganda Posters →
“Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user...”
– http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/12/building-emotion-into-your-websites/
50 Most influential Designers →
photoshop styles
Every regular photoshopper is well versed in layer styles and the ever so popular bevel and emboss. it really completes a display text or even an image holder if you have a very strong but, more importantly subtle layer style.
I came across this article on Smashing magazine about the one of many photoshop techniques: layer styles.
Find article HERE!
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Portfolio cases...
In the process of making my final senior portfolio case! I want to do a handmade black wood one!!
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Welcome!
I’m pretty excited about this blog, and being able to share creative, random, funny, weird, and of course design thoughts with the public. Cheers!
