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What I Learned From The 100-Day Project
The Making of The Portals Collection: 25 Days of Minis dropping daily December 1-25, 2021 In May of 2020 I completed my Master of Fine Arts in Communication Design. During my three years of graduate school I spent time combining my love of design with fine art. How could I ...
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Demystifying (logo) file types
Do you know what type of logo you need? So you had your logo designed and you are ready to share your new brand with the world … and then you send your business cards off to the printer, fantasizing about what it feels like to hand out these new, ...
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Custom and Sustainable Packaging
How Packaging and Product Design can Support Sustainability: Have you seen the viral April Fool’s Amazon prank? While hilarious, it’s also quite alarming. I’ll be honest, one of my first reactions was “wow … that’s a lot of wasted cardboard.” So it got me thinking—what are the environmental implications of ...
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Understanding Your Site Services
Better understand your website and what’s behind it: One of the things I love about the web is how it changes and grows over time. It’s also one of the things that make it complex and hard to understand. While it can be confusing, and there are a lot of ...
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Emerging Media: Interactive Spaces, Essential Oil Product Display
Project Summary The goal of this project was to create an interactive space featuring some of the benefits and ideas for how to use five different essential oils—lavender, grapefruit, rosemary, peppermint, and eucalyptus. There is little room on the packaging itself, and the font sizes are very small, so this ...
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8 Important Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Web Designer/Developer
How to know if you’re hiring the right web developer: I have always been intrinsically drawn to the beauty and freedom in artistic expression. Over time, that artistic expression has evolved to embrace the evolution and influence of technology, and it has taken my career down paths I never thought ...
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Putting Passion to Work
6 Steps to Ignite Your Creative Passion: For the last few months, I've been diving deep into my own creative mission. Taking the time away from client work to focus energy on my own creative passion has been essential to the success of my creative career. Personal self-expression is at ...
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Five questions to ask your graphic designer before hiring them
Top 5 Questions To Ask a Designer (before you hire them!) When I was in my early twenties I started embracing my femininity. I started to get my hair professionally cut and styled. I relied heavily on the expertise of the salon owner, she was hip and fun. I gave ...
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Alt Summit Key Takeaways
From Joanna Gaines to Jessica Hische and everything in between: Alt Summit has come up in a number of conversations over the last few years. This year, two of my awesome clients were planning to speak at the event—Emily Marko, a Visual Problem Solver and Goal-Setting Guru and Aimee LaLiberte, ...
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