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Monthly Archives: May 2008
The Rather Difficult Font Game
Filed under Interesting Sites
How well do you know your fonts? Test your typeface recognizing ability by playing this quick game from ilovetypography.com.
I was able to identify 14/34. I’ll have to retake the test in about a year and see how much my score improves after more time studying & working with graphic design!
Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer
Filed under Humor
While browsing through design blogs, I came across this humorous list of “25 Reaons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer.”
The ones I thought applied best to me are listed below.
- You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
- You consider meals interruptions.
- You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
- You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
- You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
- When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
- You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
- You’ve actually $paid for a font.
- You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
- You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
Enjoy!
elizabethbradburn.com
Filed under General
This is the second domain name I have purchased for myself. I’m pretty excited.
When I was about nine years old, I started coding web pages. At one time, I boasted of having created over 200 sites. While that was probably true, I’m absolutely positive that only about 1% of those were well designed.
Since then, I have honed my design skills through various ways: looking at what others have created, reading books & magazines, and studying at Wake Technical Community College.
In this blog, I intend to share with you my exciting foray into the world of graphic design. What I’m learning, amazing designers & people I’ve met (as Mike Joosse said at DYF 2008, “everyone is a designer!”), and great design I’ve discovered.
au revoir!
