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It's funny how things move in slow motion as you're going through them but seem to speed up when you realize how much time has passed. Second semester of grad school seemed like a …
I’ll be the first to admit: I have a problem… with sketchbooks. I have recently found myself accruing a collection of sketchbooks from various places. To collect sketchbooks casually is one thing, but I …
If you had asked me what I thought of selfies just a few months ago, you would have seen me make this face: But obviously my mind has since changed. I refused to get …
With the large amount of expertise and years of experience I have in design (not), I have formulated a simple theory: everything is a cycle. Ok, yes I know it’s not ground-breaking. It’s not even …
This is just a small collection of articles I read through when putting together my portfolio. Although they are not steadfast rules, they add some different perspectives to the practice of portfolio-making. How Not …
Lessons learned: 1. You can't make someone care. I don't know how scientists and psychologists study motivation. 2. To each their own. This has been a personal mantra of mine over the last couple …
A lot of people have asked me since I've come back how graduate school is and what differences I see between it and college. Well first off, yes, they are indeed quite different. Especially …
As the importance of design increases in the world and especially on a digital platform, the existence of sites such as Dribble and Behance also increases. While originally started to get feedback on designs …
1. Designers will use one of the following to differentiate items within a line of text: // . | x 2. They like having good product photography. That might include taking pictures of pets …
One of the main things that has struck me about CMU is their two-folded approach to both functionality (training designers professionally) and philosophy (helping designers design for "the good"). However, sometimes it seems like …
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