musings
January 1, 2024

It’s Sunday, New Year’s Eve, and of course, I’m looking back at the past year. It’s usually at this time I share my top nine projects of the year, but instead, I’m going to share this. My absolute favorite and unsolicited comment from social…

September 27, 2023

Fall is my happy season. I get excited over warm sweaters and scarfs, the smells of an outdoor fire, pumpkin ravioli, the colors of nature, apple picking and cider donuts, boots. Especially boots. Recently I went to a well know shoe store and bought…

May 19, 2023

When I talk about design, I tend to use evocative words like connection, storytelling, flow. Then there are the words you need to know when it comes to executing the work such as pixels, feet, inches, elevation, interface, perfect binding, saddle stitch, text weight,…

April 16, 2022

If you live in the Chicago area, you’ve probably heard that there is a new Apple store. For some people, that means waiting outside, in line, to get inside of a store that for me personally, makes me anxious and sets off all types of…

April 16, 2022

Guilty. I’m completely guilty. For the past few years I have presented concepts to clients that are to finished. Polished. I didn’t let them see the work that went in to coming up with an idea. The sketches. Notes. Doodles and bookmarks both digital and…

April 16, 2022

Have you ever been surrounded by people and yet felt completely alone? Have you ever been on the train, at work, at a restaurant where everyone had their heads buried in a device, their ear buds in their ears, or their heads buried in a…

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