Design 365: Week 1.5
I have been at this daily design thing for about a week and a half now. I started out fairly aimlessly with some concepts for the knitting website that I am building: Knitdea. (Logos 1, Logos 2, Logo – Final)
I have now moved on to creating a design based on / inspired by the people [...]
2010: Design Oddessy
2010 is going to be a great year. I am participating in Design Informer’s daily design challenge (follow it on twitter via #design365). You can see my posts at design365.maryfranwiley.com.
I wrote a design manifesto that I plan on following as well.
I am starting up a knitting design & inspiration blog (not a full on knitting [...]
This blog needs a focus
Beacause apparently blogging is essential for a good career. And Google likes updated websites (it is good for SEO, and I tell my clients all the time).
Besides, I have this domain, so I might as well use it. I need to make sure that when you search for me, I come up as the entire [...]
YarnCon 2009, Robots and photos!
Oh, has it been a year since YarnCon? I’, afraid it had been. This year was a little sad. There was no cousin Christine. There was no knitting fiend cousin Beth (I am sorry I created that monster) Here is a preview of the yarn I got (I can’t post the rest because [...]
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Category Adventures, Chicago
Win good stuff!
Over on my company’s blog there is a giveaway this week for a free poster print from UPrinting!
I have it on good authority that they are giving away custom greeting cards next week and a custom vinyl banner the next!
If you win the poster or the cards and want a custom design, we will throw [...]
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Category Uncategorized
False Advertising
Dear XO Communications / Concentric Hosting,
When you say that you support WordPress, make sure you tell your customers that you support only a very old version with a giant security hole. And that if you want to use a more recent version you have to pay someone there to make a recent, stable version work [...]
The New York Adventure begins!
I leave for my first vacation in quite a few years tomorrow. I haven’t been on a plane since an interview with Google in Ann Arbor, MI (yes, I had the poor taste to accept such a ridiculous interveiw). And, I have to admit that I am a wee bit nervous. I was going to [...]
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Category Adventures, life or something like it
Building an identity
I have been working late into the night working on my new web design venture and have come up with a smashing logo design. It was a bit of a process, and admittedly it was a bit rushed, but sometimes things just feel right, and this was one of those times. I knew I wanted [...]
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Category Sketchbook, Start-up
I need a new favicon.
It’s true. The current one does not match the site at all. I forgot about that when I re-did the site. I would never forget to design one for a client site but somehow, I didn’t make one for me. Oh well.
Wait, what needs to be changed? The favicon is that little teeny tiny image [...]
Hello, Thursday!
Today is a fantastic day! I have purchased my domain, started a trademark application as well as the application for a business name here in good ‘ol Illinois! I have started thinking about logos, the site design and all that fun stuff too, but that has to take a back seat to getting the work [...]
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Category Start-up, life or something like it
Naming a venture.
This is a dilemma faced by many entrepreneurs : you know your idea/service/product us great. In fact it is so awesome that you name it something off the wall thinking that it won’t matter or that everyone will get your quirky sense of humor.
Well, let me tell you I am facing this very dilemma. [...]
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Category Start-up, life or something like it
Building a website is not for a hobbyist.
At my “day job” I come across a lot of websites and have to work with code created by all sorts of people. Designers who still use GoLive (oi!), Programmers who dabble in HTML for fun (they might be worse) but the worst code to deal with is the code created by someone who [...]
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Category code monkey, life or something like it