Category: Design
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One of my first design projects
Me in my room at 15, being photographed by The Charlotte Observer for an article about the teen panel I was a member of. I was very proud of my wall! Susan jokes that I was able to turn it into a career …
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“I designed my own …”
As a graphic designer who does custom commissioned work, my job is to listen to my clients and create designs based on their wants and needs. I am not a puppet reproducing the work exactly as they request it; I am adding my own style to each piece and making certain that the pieces are…
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10 years ago | 10 years later
Written on August 29, 1994: In ten years I would like to be out of college and married. [10-year-later update: I was 4 years out of college, and I was married exactly 10 years and 6 days after this was written] I want to be a journalist at a large newspaper, perhaps writing editorials. [10-year-later…
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I was Privileged …
Designing a blog header The great thing about working with my friend Chris is that we are on the same wavelength and have the same goals when it comes to design: Simple, readable, modern. I should state we don’t officially work together. We have separate companies and live in separate cities. But we talk via Instant Messaging…
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September 11, 2001
On that day 7 years ago, I was still a rookie copy editor and page designer at the newspaper. Fresh from college, I had been working there just 9 months, and this day would be the first day I would see what an impact working for the media can have – not just on the…