Here are a couple of the storyboards I’ve been working on in the Storyboarding class I’ve been taking this summer. It’s really exciting for me to see how they are coming along. On this project, I’m experimenting with a style completely different than anything I’ve ever done, and it feels great!
As promised, an update on [...]
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Just this morning I became friends with WeeHouse on Facebook! WeeHouse is a company based in the Twin Cities who build pre-fab as well as custom modular homes. They are concerned with sustainable design principles such as building small and efficiently.
In their own words, “Architecture in a box! House. Cabin. Addition. Rooftops. Developments. Multi-unit dwellings. [...]
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Inspired by clbeyer and Happy Foody, my husband and I are challenging ourselves to a raw diet this week! It’s something I’ve been wanting to try for a few weeks and I count myself super lucky to have a husband who is so supportive and gung-ho about my crazy ideas. Tomorrow is our first day [...]
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I’m terribly excited. Today, my website was featured on a new Design Meltdown chapter Got Wood 5.
As Patrick says, “Sometimes there is a trend, and sometimes there is a trend. Is the use of wood the new glossy style? It just might be the case. I have noticed for some time now the shift from [...]
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The other day, Collis over at PSDTUTS posted a list of some of the latest, greatest, and totally awesome tutorial destinations for Photoshop addicts. He says:
“As you know, we here at PSDTUTS are absolutely and totally committed to being the best place for Photoshop junkies to click to. With that goal in mind, I try [...]
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Today while scrubbing Fave Up, one of my favorite sites for inspiration, I stumbled upon this site. Excited because another one of my favorite sites for inspiration, Design Shack, had apparently decided to redesign, I went to check it out. A little later in the day, I went back to Design Shack, only to find [...]
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I’ve been slurped! This morning I found that I’ve been featured on The Daily Slurp for the second time. This go around is for my great new redesign. Hooray!
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This summer I chose to take a Storyboarding class to replace the required Illustration 3 (digital illustration). The first day of class, I left with a sinking feeling. It seemed as though I was the only one in the class who wasn’t a die hard science fiction addict. (To prove my point, our first assignment [...]
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I am continually amazed (and admittedly jealous) of the work I see posted on The DieLine. The latest packaging that has caught my eye is Sivaris, a brand of rice from Spain and designed by Pepe Gimeno.
In their words, here is a description of the design objective:
“The brief for the packaging for SIVARIS was [...]
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Lately I’ve been interested in compiled, mixed media art. I love the idea of creating art from what has already been created; taking it apart and combining it with other designs to make something personal. I found this poem and quite a few others while doing a Google image search. The artist of this set [...]
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