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L3arn 2 C0de (buildings)
As a portion of the many discussions that I’ve been having lately about a return to employment, there are 2 common themes that seem to be ‘evergreen’ complaints about this profession. They’re being raised by those doing the hiring about the people that they’re interviewing. The two largest things that seem to be an issue with those… Read more
The Pressure Mounts
Anniversaries Measuring time to gauge one’s growth and accomplishment is usually a good thing… It sets a check point, at which you can break the passage of time into comprehensible blocks. This allows a snapshot of life, so that you can check in with yourself & loved ones to see just where you’ve been and adjust where… Read more
The Road Less Traveled to Licensure
Stamp01I thought that I’d pause in the effort to share my reference library to reflect on something that happened back in late August. Traveling home from a few days of closing out the family cottage and winterizing the building for the coming season, I received a phone call from the State of Minnesota Licensing and Registration Board… Read more
Write it All Down
It’s been almost 3 months since I posted anything. Well, not entirely true. It’s been 3 months since I wrote it down in here. There’s been a lot going on, some good, some struggles, and life in general. I’ll break this apart in to digestible separate posts – but one thing is clear to me.… Read more
Logos, Fonts & Graphics
Logo01_BarnMuch like the quests for everything else, the path starts about 20 steps before I assumed it did. Design is design is design… so that part never changes Of course as a designer, we make pretty horrible clients, unless you come to terms with the idea that for your personal graphics – everything is in… Read more
For every task, there is a tutorial…
You want to know how to go thru building a portfolio? That’s right – make & retool Revit templates, graphic standards and maybe you build a PC to (re)produce all the visual media. I’m still here, I’m still working toward something – but telling the story properly has become more of an epic tale than… Read more
Unemployment so far…
Decisions, decisions. In the last major downturn (2008/2009) I was struggling. HARD. I had a few saving sources in my professional life that kept me afloat, working on projects here and there – living hand-to-mouth and losing my savings quickly. The position that I was in was not good. Unemployment was gone, most of my… Read more
GAME. ON.
Build01The Build. Started as a ‘what if’ and became a reality out of pure necessity and reduced access to components… PC component prices are getting dicey as supply diminishes and demand increases for the WFH / unplanned unemployed crowd. So I was forced into pulling the trigger on infrastructure investment. The initial plan was to… Read more
Things kinda fell flat – huh?
I can explain… sort of. The first hurdle that I ran into was issues of sales add-ins, extra packages and things that other people were more than happy to sell a subscription to their service for my little venture – to the tune of thousands of dollars a year. I don’t know about you –… Read more
Practice, Practice, Practice – Part II
Continued… basically, I shared that – so that I could share this. I hope you can forgive the long-winded narrative explanation of the ideas. Production Crunch I think (and I might be wrong) but the elegantly rendered pretty pictures, may have gotten us into trouble as designers. Yes, I know what I said, and I’m… Read more