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Doodles and an Update

October 9th, 2008 · No Comments

I need to post the rest of my Chronicling Memories series, but first have to take more photographs. So I should be back to that this weekend. In the meantime, I thought I’d share a couple doodles I did for a template I’ve been working on this week. I’m really happy with how these turned out, […]

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Tags: Design · Design Life · Typography · Updates

An Elegant Affair

August 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

This past weekend I went to the wedding of one of my friend’s: it was a gorgeous affair from the dress to the ceremony, and from the reception to the cake. Jen and I were honored to be asked to help out with designing some things for the wedding: Above is the monogrammed sticker I designed […]

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Tags: Design · New Work

Consorting with the Enemy…or, Learning to Embrace PowerPoint

August 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Designers hate PowerPoint: it’s a well-established fact. In fact, I would say that designers just generally hate MS Office. It’s clumsy, auto-corrects everything you don’t want it to, and hard to control. A much better presentation platform would be presenting a PDF in Acrobat. Everyone has Reader, it looks sleek, gives you more control over […]

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Tags: Design · Design Life

You know you’re a big time designer when…

June 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

…they bedazzle your logo onto a shirt. Back in March, KC was host to the Big 12 Basketball Tournament. To encourage ticket sales to the womens’ games, WIN for KC hosted a happy hour event entitled Hoops and Heels. I was flattered when they chose my logo for the event signage and advertising: They wanted the […]

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Tags: Design · New Work

AIGA Profile Updates

June 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Well, I’ve been slow to post something lately, but it’s been for a good cause: I’ve been busy this past week updating my profile on AIGA’s site. It’s not 100% finished yet—I’m still taking pictures of my latest work—but it’s almost there! Even more exciting is that once everything is photographed, I can continue working […]

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Tags: Design · New Work · Product Design · Updates

Anatomy of a Press Kit

May 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

As you can see, I have finally redirected the portfolio site to here, so this blog is officially live! I’ll now start work on redesigning the portfolio site in hopes that I can get something back up over the summer. As promised, the first official post will now commence: Recently, I was able to work on […]

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Tags: Design · New Work · Updates