Hey Everyone! Sorry for the lull in posting lately. Last week I spent a quick (but very fun) visit down to San Francisco to see my nephew graduate from High School. I was only in town for less than 30 hours, but managed to pack every second with laughs and food consumption (it’s what me [...]

Art, at least art as i define it, is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person. – Seth Godin, Linchpin (page 99) Discuss.

Today my client and friend Laura Marchbanks invited me to attend Visitors Day with the Networking group she is a part of (The Northstar chapter of BNI.) It was by far the best experience I have had at a networking event! I met some very friendly people, had a few laughs and ended up running [...]

If you’re a designer and you have not heard about Dribbble, you must be living under a rock!  The community has been abuzz about this new online design network for weeks now. Dribbble is an invite only design critique community, similar to ConceptFeedback.com and as of yesterday, I was finally “drafted” off the bench! Now [...]

I have had bad issues with Network Solutions over the past 6 months dealing with security and their ability (or willingness) to take whatever steps nessecary to insure security. I have never said a bad word of them in public, I’ve given them second and third and fourth chances. Yesterday my static portfolio website got [...]

“I own and operate a one-woman design studio.” “I own and operate a one-woman design studio,” that is part of my elevator speech, when people outside of the freelance community ask what I do – this is usually what I tell them. As time goes on, I steer further away from using the word “freelance”, [...]

Many of you may already know that I spent my weekend flipping through books, talking to artists and meeting Sci-Fi celebrities at the annual Seattle geekfest known as the Emerald City Comicon* . It was a really fun weekend and extremely inspiring! As many of you who are creatives, you might relate to this, except [...]

You can ask me anything. Hoping to get some good questions that may spark ideas for extended blog posts, but don’t be shy – ask whatever you want.

Obviously, this blog doesn’t cover pop culture news or anything like that, but the recent Conan O Brien V Jay Leno hoopla has really been something I have GOT TO talk about. Over the last couple weeks, we all experienced what has now been coined “the Late Night Wars,” it was a whirlwind of drama [...]

What the hell is “Whuffie”!? I know, it’s a silly sounding word, but bare with me! The word originates from the sci-fi novel by Boing Boing co-editor, Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. In the novel, whuffie is a form of reputation-based currency and in Tara Hunt’s The Whuffie Factor, she applies [...]