My husband is darn good in the kitchen. And I'm darn good at the dinner table. (Translation: he likes to cook, I like to eat).  He often talks about "plating".  About how the first bite begins with the eyes.  How presentation is everything. (Sometimes when I cook, and it doesn't taste so great, I remind him that my plating was fabulous). More

I wrote about fonts in the last post, so it's still on my mind. And it led me to thinking about one of the frustrating things about web development: keeping up with emerging technology. Now, I don't just mean myself, I mean sometimes the rest of the world is slow to catch up on what designers/developers may think is the best thing since sliced cake. (Cake is much tastier than bread, don't you think?) More

I can't say that about many things in life. Those who know me personally see me as a laid back, calm, pretty level-headed person. Very few acquaintances have ever seen me giddy about anything.  More

Normally, I don't share these kinds of secrets with the world, because once it's out there....well, it's out there.  I also am not in the habit of making confessions to the world.  But, here goes: More

I have a design philosophy.  This isn't it.  Rather, this is just something that hit me years ago while I was still in art school slogging through sleepless nights at the studio trying to get projects done. I asked myself, why am I in art school?  Why am I doing this?  And all of a sudden, inspiration hit.  I was able to finish my project, and I was left with this: More

Well, not me, that's for sure.  At least I didn't before.  Time is slowing back down somewhat, and life is resuming normal speed now that I'm married (wahoo!) and my impromptu career as wedding planning is over (whew).  I decided, well why not?  I come across inspiration in the day that I will sometimes file away in my brain and will sometimes jot down.  Now I will just be "jotting" it on my computer. More