written August 19th, 2009 ·
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Typography! I am back to rant and rave:)
Actually I’d like to begin with a quote that made me think about these blogs posts about typography that I have been writing lately. “Everyone’s a judge and everyone’s the accused” Nancy Updike said on This American Life afew weeks ago. And it sums up my endeavors here quite well. It is easy for me to take a look at a magazine and see right away what I would change about the design and it is quite another thing to avoid those mistakes before or while you are creating something. So I can easily critque and I can easily be the critiqued. Which is a good thing! What would we do without a good hard critique once in a while? It is so important to take a step back every once and a while and look hard at what you are working on and judge. read more…
Posted in Graphic Design, Typography
written August 18th, 2009 ·
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I was a busy bee all last week preparing for the market on Sunday. I made tons of new earrings, handmade envelopes (to be used as bags) out of old magazines, I printed and cut out labels (with descriptions detailing the earring materials for the envelopes) and I had to finish creating my stands. Below you can see my bags the I am using to package my earrings. I really like them. They are colorful and graphic and of course, the best thing is that I am recycling! I did manage to almost cut of my finger tip making these! I guess I got way too into the grove and stopped concentrating! I was probably really into my Harry Potter audiobook:)
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Posted in My Jewelry
written August 18th, 2009 ·
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So I sold my jewelry for the first time at a market this past Sunday! It was very exciting. So exciting that I actually only slept about 3 hours the night before because of anxiety! Eeek! So I was definitely exhausted even before the day started, but the beautiful sunshine and the perfect temperature of the air at 7:30 am made me happy. And it was of course great that I had a good friend with me to pass the time and share snacks with! The day started slowly as Berliners are really not early risers on the weekends. They are usually still coming home from the clubs at 7:30 am. I did actually see a few drunken couples wandering home on my way. read more…
Posted in Life in Berlin, My Jewelry
written August 18th, 2009 ·
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Here is a design I did for a T-shirt design contest. I was totally mad that it was rejected on the grounds that it didn’t fit the company’s style (it isn’t illustrative enough I suppose). Sometimes a little variety is good! No, just kidding. I am only mad because the prize was 15,000 Euros and I didn’t even get a shot! Well, I will find another outlet for this design!
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Posted in My Collages, My Design Work
written August 11th, 2009 ·
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These are the new photos I took yesterday for my Etsy shop. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any direct sun, but I think I still got some nice shots. I tried to change up the positioning of the earrings and the backgrounds, because I felt like my photos were becoming too similar. I am also trying harder to make more front page (of Etsy) quality images, which means they have to be dynamic and atmospheric. For now I am happy with them!
Posted in My Jewelry, My Photography
written August 3rd, 2009 ·
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I just received the invites that I designed for a close friend’s wedding in the mail today! Pretty happy with how they turned out!
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Posted in My Design Work
