Ode to my Couch – Designing with Intent

in create, graphic design, musings by faryl on November 22nd, 20087 Comments

Just Creative Design Writing Project

Write something about design.

Design. It’s a pretty big topic.

To try to focus myself on a more specific aspect of the topic, I looked up the definition of “design”.

Here is part of what I found read more

Fun with Scanners (free graphics!) (second try)

in create, etc., free stuff, graphic design by faryl on November 20th, 2008No Comments

this is a repost, since the first attempt seemed to have some sort of formatting quirk

I’ve been playing with my scanner to create some backgrounds, textures, and other graphics. Here are (reduced size) samples of some of the files I’ve created.  (Yes, I actually scanned a tortilla!)

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Spotlight: Jacob Cass | Just Creative Design

in blogging, connect, create, graphic design, spotlight, web design by faryl on November 17th, 20085 Comments

This week’s spotlight is on Jacob Cass, writer of Just Creative Design.

Why I chose Jacob’s blog

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First, to celebrate his blog’s first birthday, Jacob recently put together a contest to raise money for the Blog Action Day Poverty Fund. You can enter the contest two ways, by writing an article about design and/or making a donation to the fund. Sixty six winners will be selected at random to each win one of $11,000 worth of prizes. The contest raised over $400 for the charity within its first week. Visit the blog for specifics on how to enter. read more

Chris Brogan Rockstars

in blogging, connect, create, graphic design, social media, web design by faryl on November 5th, 2008No Comments

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I'm a Chris Brogan Rockstar

First, if you have never checked out Chris Brogan’s blog and you’re interested in blogging, social media and/or personal branding, stop reading this and head over there now .

I mean it. Go! I’ll be writing more about Chris in a future “spotlight” post on must-read blogs. But to make it easy for you in the meantime, I’ll even give you some links to start with:

Develop a Strong Personal Brand Online Part 1
100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media
25 Ways to Build Your Community

Still reading? Then you already know about Chris, so while we’re waiting for the other’s to catch up, talk amongst yourselves. Need a topic? “The Industrial Revolution was neither Industrial, nor was it a revolution”. Discuss! read more