so what is it that you DO?

ha. =) found a link to this off a pretty good comment thread over at jason santa maria’s website about what job titles designers use, and how it can get kinda confusing, especially when you state your irrelevant job title to a layperson and they haven’t a clue what it is you actually [...]

how a typical corporate client would design the stop sign

i am so trying to resist the urge to email this video right now to everyone i work with at my job who i do design jobs for. i have had to deal with absolutely EVERYthing in this video.

illustrator error message: missing linked .psd file

i’m having an odd problem trying to get a vector version of our logo to an outside company creating some items for us. i first sent them the original illustrator file, as a backup to the high-res jpg of the logo they’d already had. they told me that they only had cs2, not [...]

attempting to rework a brochure to make it more compelling

my supervisor asked me give him design concepts for the new general brochure, and so i spent last night looking thru the current one. this is what i sent to him in response:
re: the new focus for our organization’s collateral
the impression i’m getting, from talks, or perhaps my own thinking, is that the [...]

designer trying to learn from being micromanaged

am continuing to struggle with the… micromanaging of design work by my non-creative coworkers. i tried to discuss this with my supervisor last week, and realized he was offended by my description of a designer’s difficulties working in an environment of non-creative people. it was a personal reaction of his, him assuming [...]