Category: Design
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Identity reprint
August 1st, 2011 After my MA, I realized that the constant thread through much of my fine art and through the projects for my MA was a concept of identity and community. My tethers to different communities have faded and others become strong bonds. My definition of family has shifted and grown to include a…
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I put on pantyhose for this?
April 26th, 2011 Thursday afternoon’s presentation seemed to be going well enough, though I should have picked up the signals. After years in business, I have a minimum threshold of money on the table before I can be bothered to put myself through the torture of contorting myself into my expensive, but fairly effective, legs…
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The question
Posted on October 22, 2010 on designerstuff.net When I graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Visual Communications, I had learned the elements and principles of design in order to apply them to all things that communicated visually. I learned about advertising and marketing and how business operated. Faithfully, I practiced the methodology in which I…
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A Better Question
A Better Question Posted on January 14, 2011 on designerstuff.net It was the best question since the night at dinner, Kit Hinrichs turned to me and said “What do you want to do that you have not done?” That question set my life on a different course. Last week I talked to an art director for whom…
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Congratulations to Jane Carroll
Posted on February 10, 2011 on designerstuff.net Art and Poetry by Jane H. Carroll And to me! On rare occasions I get to design something that is absolute confection. I designed this book, a collection of art and poetry by Jane H. Carroll. The book won “First Place, Art Book” in the shows of both the National…
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Lasting Inspiration
Posted on May 9, 2011 on designerstuff.net Cotier was a famous illustrator, racking up awards in airbrush illustration early in my career. If one wanted to hire Cotier, one talked to Bonnie, the studio assistant. Cotier was a recluse. Cotier couldn’t be bothered chatting to the clients. Bonnie went to do speeches for Cotier. She met with…
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The Camellia Commitment
April 7th, 2011 · No Comments This is my Ruby Wedding Camellia It isn’t that I am a commitmentphobe, it is just that when I do commit to something, I take it seriously. I don’t know when to quit even when the situation is no longer healthy or in my best interest. So it was a surprise…
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I Pour Tea
March 11th, 2011 So why don’t ya hire me? I just completed another 9 pages of essays, CV, and information for a job application. That doesn’t count the form I filled out as well. I have a CV that is completely stripped of all my accomplishments and half my work that I used to submit…
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Just another American cheerleader
November 17th, 2010 Yeah, I had the pep and I had the steam! I was watching yet another video about job searching, this one on the elevator pitch. The woman with the bad bleach job was explaining how it is done. “You don’t want to sound like some American cheerleader.” She said derisively. Great. I…
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The Master of Facebook
February 4th, 2010 When one of your teachers looks at you and says “I would not want to be doing this course at our age,” you do wonder about yourself. The course was brutal for someone who hadn’t been in college since before most of my classmates were born. But I made it. I was dissuaded from tackling the…