WordCamp NEO – The Designers Toolkit

I’m so excited to be speaking at WordCamp Northeast Ohio this year! Public speaking terrifies me…which is exactly why I do it. That plus I just love talking about design with others. Below is a link for you to be able to download a PDF of the slides from...

The Designers Toolkit – Resources

DESIGN RESOURCES [half ] Fonts & Type Google Fonts Font Awesome Adobe Typekit FontShop Noun Project Font Squirrel Da Font Typecast   Color Theory Adobe Kuler I Want Hue  Chroma.js Color Scale Helper TinEye Labs  Colbis Color Blindness Simulator   ...

With Love From Cleveland // Postcard 1

A couple of weeks ago I got an idea to make a single postcard with the message “With love from Cleveland.” It reminded me of how you would sign a letter or of those old “Greetings From…” postcards. Of course I wanted to find some way...

Goodbye Tremont

There are a lot of other things I should be doing right now besides writing this blog post. (Except not really because I’m sitting at the Conrad’s downtown waiting for my car to be serviced). Wedged in between work, side work, guest posting (more on that...

Design Days: Kickoff

As a designer I’m constantly asking myself…is this the best design I could have possibly produced? Is this the most well thought out idea? And, more practically, did I meet the requirements? Did I make this for myself to love, for the client to love, or...