Last month I decided to move my business away from marketing and focus on graphic design, specifically lookbook and press, media, sales kit design. While the word “lookbook” is common among many fashion and design bloggers and other creatives in these...
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One of the things that I’m doing this year to improve my design skills and further build my graphic design portfolio is taking the Lilla Rogers Studio Assignment Bootcamp Class. The first assignment was to design an iPhone case that included a cuckoo clock...
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Sandra and I published our second We Are The Contributors project last week. The theme for this round was Beginnings. I dusted off my acrylic paints and created an abstract painting on a 2′ x 3′ canvas I’d been lugging around since 2007. Now you can...
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You know when you see things and find them so awesome that you reflexively inhale sharply? That’s what I did when I learned about Daily Overview from this article on White Spaces. Daily Overview provides us with images shot from the Overview vantage point. The...
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Seattle Refined, the new Seattle lifestyle blog from KOMO News, launched yesterday and I’m freelancing as their interior design/decor contributor. Three of my pieces are on the site now and there will be more to come soon! Today I’m going to be in Capitol...
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It’s not quite time to unveil the next round of We Are The Contributors projects, but I wanted to share my color palette of the abstract painting that I created for the upcoming online exhibition.I really wanted to use a neonish pink, black, gold, and white, but...
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I have some things that I can share with you. Finally! At the beginning of the month, I vowed that 2014 was my year to BE the artist. I’ve been diligently working on my creative side project – My Year of Amélie -, working on a big abstract painting for the...
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LOOKBOOKS. CATALOGUES. PRESS KITS. BROCHURES. MEDIA KITS. SALES KITS. Whatever you want to call them these days, there is a lot of interesting creative direction, art direction, photography, styling, and graphic design out there for...
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I’ve always been a documenter. I got my first diary when I was seven and my first camera by the time I turned ten. When I look through my first diary now, I can already see myself going against the “rules.” I tried using those pre-dated pages in...
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Last week Sandra and I hosted our first mini-project for We Are The Contributors. We asked participants to take one selfie a day and post it on Instagram. The response was amazing! There are so many creative people out there and it was so much fun to see their work....
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