Pinterest is a great medium for getting your work, and especially your blog posts, out to a wider audience. Having just started blogging more regularly, myself, I've been pinning my recent posts to my Pinterest board. When I started to pin my own posts though, I noticed that the caption that Pinterest was giving my …
How to Create Your Visual Identity
There are many reasons that I became a graphic designer. One of the ways that I knew that I wanted to be a designer, was that I was obsessed with making all of my correspondence look like it was specific to me. That meant that I'd use the same font, similar note-taking style (hello, colour …
Using Pinterest to Communicate Your Vision to Your Web Designer
I've mentioned before that Pinterest is a great place to get inspiration as a designer but it's uses go far beyond organizing those pairs of cowboy boots you're lusting after. (You can take the girl out of Alberta but you can't take Alberta out of the girl.) When you're starting to think about your new …
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3 Places to Find Design Inspiration
Something that I occasionally struggle with, is finding inspiration for my design projects. As much as I wish that amazing ideas would just fall out of my head whenever I want them to, that just isn't reality. So, I like to go hunting for inspiration. I try to spend a little time everyday foraging for …
