Category: graphic design

  • Working on my first band shirt. yay, I love making shirts. The stencil was created by lasercutting a vectorized image of one of my Presto pen drawings. I was glad to have gotten some foam sheets to test with so it’s not a bunch of reject shirts. I think the white detracts from the design…

  • The morning after my dad died, we gathered around the living room and talked about what needs to be done for the service. I designed this program cover. I drew these plumerias. Something about two of a thing, it makes me think of my special relationship with my dad. It wasn’t his favorite flower, but…

  • Today, I was looking for a form template that I could use to generate a donation form. I really dislike most forms because my handwriting isn’t 10pt font. This is a form optimized for accessibility: say hello to your over-50 (years old) potential donors! There’s an “email this form” button. Go into the Windows>Interactive panel…

  •   This week in the Jobtrain Web Developer Coding Boot Camp, a visit from a representative of Samaschool. In this online training program, I’ve taken snippets–if source not stated, it’s copied from the program– out to develop into this year blog post to share for people in my situation and of course for reference for myself in the future.…

  • I was thinking of doing a calendar of fun art, but then I was thinking that a waste of paper that is. If you just want to visit with my art daily, why not try some desktop wallpaper?

  • Toy Shelby product clip version 1: hand-drawn penguin, my favorite cartoon character (Shelby), using a Prismacolor Premier Brush Tip and some glue to affix it to the Modern Cube card clip. A Certificate of Authenticity: an Illustrator file with a complex-ish line then copied and rotated 15 degrees until a circle design is completed With some red diagonals for accent. Printed…

  • My friends and I went to Crater Lake for a cabin get away. Lots of fun. My friend mentioned she scrapbooks for her friends, but not for herself. I thought I’d give her a little graphic designed treat. InDesign is a scrapbooker’s friend, but it also changes the product. It’s not really scraps. It’s smooth…

  • After some mild success with using To Do List, a simple HTML checkbox and text field document, I found myself wanting to save the items (which everyone is wont to do, I realized). I still like the “no-login” situation, but yikes, if the browser fails, the list is gone. So, I decided to jump the HTML…