Oct 11

Personalized Art

In: Design Time, Life's Design   Tagged: art, image, painting   

It’s funny how things fall together sometimes.  It wasn’t long after I wrote the post Van Gogh blue & red that I stumbled across an article about a unique company called DNA11.  Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Adrian Salamunovic and Nazim Ahmed started DNA11 in 2005 out of Ahmed’s apartment.  Using a simple cheek swab and specialized [...]

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Sep 04

Brilliant White Branding

In: Life's Design   Tagged: brand, color    3 comments

I do my grocery shopping a couple times a month; typically that means a trip to the local Walmart.  Recently, with the economic downturn and the mass layoffs and shutdowns of businesses and local lumber mills, many are really feeling the pinch.  My family is no exception.  So, consequently I have been doing more generic [...]

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Aug 05

Learning the biz

In: Life's Design   Tagged: business, learn    1 comment

Starting out in the freelance design biz has been one huge, ongoing learning experience.   Having the design background, job history and track record does not a business make.  I have had to learn about state taxes, federal taxes, tax with-holdings and tax exemptions; business plans, business loans, business accounts and business software.  That’s just the beginning. Though I have [...]

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Jul 24

Purple Pondering

In: Life's Design   Tagged: color, learn, life, rainbow    2 comments

Have you ever played the road-trip game where you find an object that begins with A, then B, then C, etc?  Or how about the one where you just find the letters of the alphabet in road signs or license plates?  This morning, for some reason I found myself playing a similar game, only with the [...]

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Jul 15

Van Gogh in blue and red

In: Life's Design   Tagged: art, life, nature, painting    1 comment

A great friend, whom I have had the pleasure of knowing since 5th grade, sent me some awesome and intriguing images a while back.  Jen is a brilliant science type, Ph.D. at Brown, and can talk circles around me when it comes to microbiology and bio-technology, and I’m sure a lot more “ologies.”   She sent me the images [...]

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Jul 10

The First Page

In: Life's Design   Tagged: Blog, design, learn   

I spend so much of my time working on some one’s image, that I sometimes forget what it is I want mine to be… So I have spent the last two hours browsing through templates, waiting for the lighting to strike.  I picked out a few to try on, but not overly excited yet.  Now that [...]

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