Archive for July, 2007



Of all periods of graphic design, my favorite has to be the early 20th century.  I love the use of color, and  the typography is just beautiful.  Recently I’ve found a nice source of inspiration in that vein at InternationalPoster.com where there is a huge collection of vintage posters searchable by subject, period, style, artist, etc.  […]

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    So, you’ve probably read about the new breed of comment spammers on ProBlogger, and maybe even have read Wendy’s post about why she felt she needed to turn nofollow back on or Chris Garrett’s latest post on the subject, and you might be thinking of turning it back on yourself because of some comment spam […]

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    Rockin’ Chick Bloggers

    Char at Essential Keystrokes very kindly nominated me for a “Rockin’ Chick Blogger” award. Sometimes on this side of the blogging world, we girls can feel as though we’re in the minority. Oh sure, there are millions of Mommy Bloggers and I’m sort of one of them elsewhere, but on the business/tech/design side […]

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    Branding is a topic I am very interested in, and Chris Garrett has just done a round-up of multiple posts on branding that includes a lot of good reads: Branding Blog Post Round-Up - Readers Best Branding Posts @ chrisg.com
    Loved this post at ColourLovers.com about taking color inspiration from the masters of painting.
    Charity at Design […]

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    While in the sketching process for a logo design, after the first couple of ideas are on the page, I regularly get stuck. When that happens, I find the best way to get unstuck is to do some browsing through logo collections online. Here are some sites that always jump start my creativity when […]

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    Presto Change-o Reboot

    Like most designers, I’m never really finished with my own site, and I’ve been wanting to redesign this site for a while now. The old design served me well for 6 months or so, but it was time for a change. While I really appreciate busy sites that are chock full of visual […]

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