Slow design. It’s a term you hear more and more these days. A return to the art of creating, instead of fast, AI-generated, lifeless imagery. When I started working on my twelfth children’s book—where the two main characters fall into a painting during a museum...
“I search, I struggle, I am in it with all my heart.” It’s a fragment from one of Vincent’s letters to his brother Theo that deeply resonated with me. When I recently visited the Van Gogh Experience, my brother-in-law said:“What kind of nonsense is this? Why not just...
Do you know what the scariest moment is for a creative introvert? Not networking, not the first meeting, and not even creator’s block. No, the scariest moment is when you have to share your creative work with a client or the outside world. In every piece you create,...
It’s been two years already, was the first thing I thought when I woke up this morning. Two years ago, at six in the morning, in pitch darkness, I drove through the snow in Portland to the hospital downtown to get my second blood patch. I was incredibly nervous,...
My mother hates it and grumbles about the mess on the sidewalk, but I’m smiling from ear to ear. I love the snow and the cold winter weather. Thick flakes fall around me as I sink deep into the snow. I can’t get enough of it. On the news, they say it hasn’t snowed...
“The spacing here is 52px, and I’d like 50px.” I read an email from a client who contacted me earlier this year because he really needed a website. I love living in the moment, so I jumped right in. “Let’s do it. Domain name, design, build, and off we go.” But the...
