• 4 May



    Handmade Love

    I’ve recently fallen more in love with quality handcrafted things- leather goods, jewelry, hair accessories, typography, you name it, I love it. With that said, I decided to try my hand at making greeting cards. The other day I came up with a few rough ideas of some unconventional but comical ones.

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    Please note, I said rough. I still have a bit more to go but at least you get the concept. Growing up as the 4th of five children, cards like these  would have been perfect.

    Besides those ones I also want to make birthday cards. My friend’s birthday was a few days ago so who better to practice on than her!

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    Next thing on the “To Perfect List” is handwritten type.

     

  • 7 Apr



    …but words will never hurt me. Yeah right!

    I don’t think I’ve ever been rejected before. I mean full on rejected where my client didn’t like more than more than 90% of the work I gave them. There have been instances where I will hand in works-in-progress and the person will say tweak this or change that a bit - that’s normal right? However, today was a hard pill to swallow. After working many hours on a design, following the instructions given me, the basic response I got was: “Can you go back to the original logo and just maybe change the font?”

    Initially, my mind just went 10 different directions. I was in complete mental shock. I just spent all this time only to have it rejected. However, I think this is one of the best things to happen to me professionally. I don’t expect every Tom, Dick, and Harry to love my work. I don’t even expect for people who ask for me by name to do so either. It keeps me grounded but simultaneously pushes me too.

    Now back to the Bat Cave drawing board!

     

  • 17 Jan



    You’re just my type ;)

    Sometimes when I find a good thing I like to find other good things like it. Cue the sudden infatuation with all types of handwritten fonts. With any other person, these styles would have probably worn out their welcome by now but nope, not with this girl.

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  • 2 Nov



    That annoying moment where you know it’s not the right font but you don’t know the right font to use.

     

  • 29 Oct


    I love how when I watched the new trailer for Bruce Willis’ Die Hard movie it only took me a second to realize that the words, “Die Hard” are not aligned with “A Good Day To”. The “D” in “Die” could have been adjusted to the left a bit more and “D” in “Hard” is protruding over the invisible line. Being an ad major has turned me into a monster.

    I love how when I watched the new trailer for Bruce Willis’ Die Hard movie it only took me a second to realize that the words, “Die Hard” are not aligned with “A Good Day To”. The “D” in “Die” could have been adjusted to the left a bit more and “D” in “Hard” is protruding over the invisible line. Being an ad major has turned me into a monster.

     

  • 24 May


    Even though I find this really funny, I seriously don’t know why comic sans is THAT bad. I would not choose that to put on my resume but at least it’s not Webdings.

    Even though I find this really funny, I seriously don’t know why comic sans is THAT bad. I would not choose that to put on my resume but at least it’s not Webdings.

    (Source: blog.davidiraheta.com, via destroy-somethingbeautiful)