Doggie Do: Create Something (Day 6)
Daily Daily Design Challenge, day 6.
“Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.”
New Year, New You?
There’s something about a fresh look. Like the promise that comes with a brand new year, it intrinsically brings with it the opportunity to rethink, re-examine, and renew. A change can also reaffirm your commitment to yourself, your work, your supporters and your customers. continue reading…
Doggie Do: Create Something (day 4)
Day 4 of the Daily Design Challenge. An abstract space scene created from just brainstorming and playing around in photoshop. It’s 1920px by 1200px and would be suitable as a wallpaper if anyone would like to use it. continue reading…
Doggie Do: Create Something (day 3)
Doggie Do day 3 of designinformer.com‘s Daily Design Challenge. My first mark on my fresh new Molskine is a simple drawing on the cover using a silver Sharpie. continue reading…
Design Every Day (or as often as possible)
Recently there was an article on Smashing Magazine titled “Design Something Every Day” that asks us to do just what the title says. This isn’t a new idea. People have been doing this for a while and Smashing Magazine gives a good list of those people in their article. What is new is doing it myself. So, starting in January there will be an attempt to create and post something new every day. continue reading…
Merry Christmas – Free Desktop
Christmas is a busy time. That being said, here’s a Christmas wallpaper that I made in lieu of a full article.
Merry Christmas everyone! Have a safe and happy holiday season and be sure to check for new articles in 2010! continue reading…
Opportunities for Innovation
In the midst of great adversity come oodles of innovations. For example, the entire cosmetics industry came to life in the depths of The Great Depression. Offering ladies a little inexpensive luxury made the people who sold lipstick, rouge, and eye makeup extremely wealthy! continue reading…
Is Your Website Working?
Ever visited a website that’s ultimately a wasted URL? Perhaps it takes too much time to open, or presents a cluttered, confusing hodgepodge of information. Chances are you quickly exit sites like these and move on to more inviting locales. continue reading…
Collectors of Creativity
There was a drawing professor I had in college who had mason jar after mason jar and boxes upon boxes filled with buttons. Buttons were something that she found inspiration in and she continuously drew ideas for her own work from her collection. That professor always encouraged us to be collectors of creativity. While everyone else I had known called me a pack rat and my collections junk this was the first person that saw what I was doing as having a purpose. I wasn’t a pack rat, I was a collector of creativity and I wasn’t stockpiling junk I was creating a library of inspiration. continue reading…