3 posts tagged “design”

I thought it was time to customize the banner on the blog.  It's something I've been dabbling with for a while now, but haven't figured out what exactly to do.  I didn't want to change the name of the blog, because it's something that has made me giggle since the first time the words were uttered from my husband's mouth..."I'm just a bug on the windshield of life, baby."  (Ok, perhaps he didn't say the baby part, but if fits, doesn't it?) 

So, here are the fruits of my labor...although it wasn't much labor.  Anywho, it's fun and it works and makes me happy.  Hope everyone else enjoys it too.  :)

The t-shirts arrived for Stikkit today!  They're sweet looking!  It's exciting to see your work come to fruition!  Now, I have to gather all of these materials together, and take a photo of them for my portfolio.  And also so I can show people the cool stuff I did!  This has been one hectic week, and I'm completely exhausted.  But seeing it all come together has been a very exciting thing!  Quite an energy booster, I must say.

For those who don't know me, I am a graphic designer.  At least, that's what my shiny new degree has to say on the subject.  After I graduated this June, I decided to take the summer off to recover from a program that quite honestly kicked my ass (yet, in a loving, caring way), and to perhaps come to some decisions about which direction I would like to take my life.  I had some soul searching to do, because up until two years ago, I had believed I was destined for a career in music.  (I have an old dusty degree that occasionally speaks up on the subject, but is muffled by someone called apathy and the shiny upstart of a new degree.)  It's somewhat scary to envision yourself in a role different from that which you had originally planned for the majority of your years walking the planet.  So, I took it easy, enjoying some new found freedoms, and catching up on massive amounts of lost sleep.  Eventually, I came to terms with my new role in life.

So, it made for a quiet summer, esepcially with regards to work.  The biggest project I did was to design some business cards for a new company Values of n. The business cards were a huge hit, and opened the door for me to design materials for an upcoming launch of their product Stikkit at Web 2.0.  In addition to these projects, I've also been contacted by a number of people who wish me to do work for them.  I went from being stagnant (and relaxed, I might add), to being super busy and barely able to keep my eyes open most days. 

I've heard that this is the way of the design business.  Either you are mulling around with little to do, or you are so overwhelmed with stuff, you don't know what a bed looks like anymore.  As the old overused saying goes, when it rains, it pours, and I'm definitely in the midst of that experience right now.

In very many ways it is exciting, but there are times when I'd like to find a nice comfy rock under which to hide.  You wouldn't happen to know of any with a nice ocean view, would you?