Graphic Design: Logo Project
It’s almost Spring break time and the mid-semester exams are under my belt. My recent project for graphic design entailed designing a logo for a shop using my initials or my name in the title. I chose to do a flower shop and a tattoo shop, and the tattoo shop came out better than the flower shop, so that’s what […]
Graphic Design: Typographic ID Project
These were the results of my typographic ID project for my graphic design course. Some of them came out very well, while others could have been better. I’m enjoying learning all about design as well as tricks and tools in Illustrator. Allergies and Music made it to the final project. Suggestions from others confirmed my […]
Graphic Design: Negative/Positive Icons
My second project for the graphic design class is negative/positive icons. I had fun with this project, although not as much fun as the project I’m working on (Logo Project) or the Typographic ID project I just turned in. I have to say I dislike the pen tool in Illustrator, but I’m sure with practice I will get better with it.
Graphic Design: Black Boxes
My first assignment for my graphic design class was the well-known Black Boxes. It seems that everyone who has ever taken a graphic design course does this project. You are given 12 words and must use four black squares to represent these words. From the 12 preliminary designs, you choose the four best and create them […]
OpEd: Word Choice and ‘Dumbing’ It Down
I’m sitting in my Technical and Business Communications course and tonight’s topic focused on word usage. In particular, we discussed the ‘Ladder of Abstraction” and how word choice is important in your writing. I understand the importance of choosing the correct word to convey my point. I understand that not everyone’s vocabulary is as extensive as mine. […]
OpEd: SOPA/PIPA and Copyright Law
The world has been up in arms over the SOPA/PIPA bills introduced into the House and Senate. I am against both, and was happy to see them pulled and the support people showed for those opposing it. However, I don’t know how many people noticed that while that was in the forefront of our minds, the Supreme […]
Friday Flops: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Shiver (Wolves of Mercy Falls Book 1) (Amazon, Goodreads) by Maggie Stiefvater (Amazon, Goodreads, Website) the cold. Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—watches back. He feels deeply familiar to her, but she doesn’t know why. the heat. Sam has lived two lives. As a wolf, he […]
Wordless Wednesdays — Woman, Umlauf Sculpture Garden, Austin
For more Wordless Wednesdays, click here.
Friday Flops — Martin Misunderstood by Karin Slaughter
Martin Misunderstood (Amazon, Goodreads) by Karin Slaughter (Amazon, Goodreads, Website) Narrated by Wayne Knight Published by BBC Audiobooks on July 8, 2008 A darkly comic tale about Mr Less-Than-Average in an average world. Martin Reed is the proverbial butt of everyone’s jokes. Working as a glorified accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his cantankerous […]
Treasured Thursdays — The Lucifer Principle
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 10. The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom This book is one […]
Treasured Thursdays — Forever
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 9. Forever by Pete Hamill This book follows a young boy of […]
Treasured Thursdays — Men of Tomorrow
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 8. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the […]
Treasured Thursdays — The Dark Fields
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 7. The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn This book while not always […]
Treasured Thursdays — House of Leaves
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 6. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danieleweski. This book made it […]
Treasured Thursdays — The Pillars of the Earth
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 5. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett This is a sweeping […]
Treasured Thursdays — Brunelleschi’s Dome
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 4. Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King My mother […]
Treasured Thursdays — Beggars in Spain
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 4. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress Synopsis: What if people no longer […]
Friday Flops — The Weekend
Fridays are all about books that I so wanted to love, but in the end, they just weren’t up to snuff for even a mediocre eh. 2. The Weekend by Peter Cameron was actually the book that inspired this series way back when I read it and didn’t even have a blog. This little ‘gem’ was in the Bargain […]
Treasured Thursdays — Frankenstein
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 3. Frankenstein. Need I say more? Surprisingly, especially given my love of macabre/science/horror/etc., […]
Treasured Thursdays — Generation X
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 2. Douglas Coupland’s first book, Generation X, was not a book I expected to […]
Friday Flops — Wormwood Nevada
Fridays are all about books that I so wanted to love, but in the end, they just weren’t up to snuff for even a mediocre eh. 1. Wormwood, Nevada by David Oppegaard becomes my first in what I hope is not a long list of failures. I truly wanted to like this book. I loved his first book, The Suicide Collectors, […]
