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On Contrast

For visual designers, there are two basic kinds of contrast:  Contrast in color, and contrast in composition. When I design for you, I bring my knowledge of and experience with contrast into the picture (pun intended). Contrast in Color In color, there are literally...

Anatomy of a Project: Six Essential Steps

The Google Dictionary defines a project (noun) as “an individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned and designed to achieve a particular aim.” So for me as a designer for print as well as the web, a project can be anything from a single business...

Print Lives

Print will always be with us. Despite all the assertions that print is “out” in the face of digital media, its decreasing frequency is not a matter of a supposed decline but rather of re-positioning. There is a place for print. Its place simply has changed. At the...

What Makes a Good Logo: Eight Basic Principles

Why would a designer “tip her hand” with advice for creating good logo art? Certainly not to encourage the DIY-ers out there, but rather to shed light on the process. I see logos every day that are not the greatest. There are a number of reasons for this. If you look...

On The Creative Process

Quadrillions of bits have been spilled on the subject of the creative process, and it plays a major role in the work of every graphic designer. As a designer, aka “creative mercenary,” the two most important aspects of the service I provide are creativity and...