Archive For The “Getting Started” Category

Assimilated by the WACOM collective: Resistance was futile

By | June 3, 2012

I am not much of an illustrator. I mean, I can illustrate things, (after all, my art degree is with a concentration in illustration) but I’m not quite as well-versed as these young whipper-snappers these days with their manga and their drawings of big-chested “girls” wearing dead things on their heads, but I do want [...]

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A promising new shelter publication: HGTV magazine… the review

By | November 1, 2011

At first glance, I REALLY like it! The magazine‘s content is fresh, its pages, colorful and engaging, and the subjects which they’ve chosen to write on are of things that I, as an artist and design blogger want to know about. I must admit that my being a little bit obsessed with designer, Sarah Richardson, [...]

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The top 5… or 6 shameful secrets of post-conference living

By | December 17, 2010

#6. Those “envelopes” which you “forgot” to mail “before you went away” need “tending” to. #5. It’s really, really, REALLY, hard to go back to work the next day. #4. The laundry, no matter how long you choose to ignore it, is NOT going to do itself. #3. After five days, the suitcase is still [...]

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Pet peeve of the day (font related)

By | October 19, 2010

Why don’t websites that sell fonts list the price next to the displayed font? Why does a person have to dig through several links, or, horror of horrors, put the actual font in an actual cart before the price is revealed? Sheesh! Font purchases should not have to be in one of those “if you [...]

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Proving a theory by stealing another designer’s idea

By | November 28, 2009

I wish I could say I thought of this, but I didn’t; I saw it first on Moo. Hmm?  Rounded corners made with a cheap little corner cutter.  I never thought of that. I then wondered if that same rounded corner technique would improve my business card (i.e. my blah business card). It did. Ergo, [...]

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