Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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I’m not one of those insatiable designers who redesign and reboot compulsively only for the pleasure of creative change. As the pure ISTJ that I am, behind everything I do, I must always begin with a reason why and some concrete goals to direct my work. Without such direction I just get lost and don’t […]
This afternoon, while riding the train back home from a work meeting, and in the middle of a sentence on my book, I turned around and noticed this woman:
At the time I saw her, she was placing her bag and getting settled on her seat, and I kept staring thinking of all the possibilities for […]
Documenting some sort of epiphany in my process as a visual designer… I’m not sure of how long the thought will last, so it’s important to quickly write it down to remind myself… before I continue producing poopoo designs for my own use. It’s true. When it comes to doing any design work for mafemaria.com, […]
I must confess I feel a little guilty that I haven’t written much this month. I’m alive — for those that wonder and have emailed me to ask… It’s just been a little busy with work and two personal projects that have grown out of proportion, and have joined forces to become a huge beast. […]
Maybe I’m weird, too attached, or not completely centered in the present, but one thing that is true about me is that I have a constant dormant nostalgia for the past… For my past. I can live and function normally not longing for younger years, love my husband and my current life, and then, I’ll […]
If you’ve been reading this site lately, you may have noticed that I’ve been recently consumed by the topic of copyright protection. Now that I have embarked on a personal project to share our wedding photos with friends and family via the Internet, these two topics are quickly coming together and spinning at rapid velocity […]
Last Friday, Joey and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. For a while I had been hoping that to celebrate the occasion, I would finally attack that big project that has been on my to-do list for the last… uhhh… five years. That is: Digitizing all wedding photos and mementos and making the nice wedding […]
An article my friend Jennifer sent out this morning has stirred some interesting discussion and self-reflections. The article belongs to the “Masters of Design” series by Fast Company, and is about Paula Scher: Her talent, her expertise within the graphic design industry, and what she’s had to do to get where she is… One of […]
Recently I had to deal with yet one more episode of thieves plagiarizing my work. Flying out of the clouds, with a virtual superhero cape, Jonathan Bailey came to the rescue. Jonathan is the author of Plagiarism Today, a wonderful resource for all things online plagiarism. Thanks to his help, I was able to quickly […]
Lorelle’s latest blogging challenge is to write about your hobbie. While I don’t intend to give you all the nitty gritty about the many activities I enjoy doing with my free time, this topic ties nicely with a subject I’ve been wanting to write about for some time now: This post is about two special […]
I am so completely shocked, this probably won’t be a very well thought-out post…
For some reason I was just reading some of the old comments left on this site, and when I got to the post I wrote about some artists I met at the Utah Arts Festival, for no reason at all, I clicked […]
If you think that I am terribly proud of the visual design and information architecture exhibited on this web site, I need to quickly clarify that you are unfortunately wrong. Mafe Maria may be a sample in my portfolio, but only because it shows that I have taken WordPress by the horns, and also as […]
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