Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) is getting mixed reviews this year. My personal opinion? The 2007 conference was not as good as past years, but it still managed to leave me with several interesting nuggets of inspiration. Rob Foster, one of the guys with whom I went to Austin this year, has posted a very […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
As if somebody had heard our desperate scream for CSS customization on WordPress.com blogs, a CSS Editor plugin has just been released. It allows you to modify the stylesheet of any WP.com theme, and upload any images you want to use with your CSS. Bottom line: You can modify the design of the theme as […]
Not to discredit and harshly criticize any of the current themes available at Wordpress.com, but to tell the truth, several weeks ago Joey and I had the hardest time finding an adequate theme for Joey’s blog. What I mean by “adequate”:
1. Content is easy to read:
Colors, font sizes, page width and other design aspects make […]
Having a boring day? I have a suggestion for ya: Make a digital snow flake.
A few nights ago I spent an hour playing and made these 15 pieces. As an experiment, I tried to make a real one by folding a sheet of paper and attempting to cut it… FAILED MISERABLY. With so many folds […]
This is one of those days in which I just don’t feel on top of my mountain. Paradoxically, the day started with the happy discovery that Digital Web Magazine published an article that uses one of my designs to illustrate good use of color. Back in November I knew my design would be used, but […]
Sunday didn’t feel as juicy and energetic as Saturday. I couldn’t connect with some of the panels, but maybe that had more to do with my physical exhaustion from a serious lack of sleep. However, a few ideas resonated:
Respect Your Elder Bloggers
After reading about it, I’m sort of curious about Ronni Bennet’s blog, Time Goes […]
These are some notes I took while attending SXSW Interactive 2006. I hope this post serves me as reminder of some the thoughts and ideas that energized me during the conference.
Traditional Design and New Technology
The main point of this discussion was expressed by Mark Boulton: In print design it’s all about aesthetics. You don’t need […]
Well… Let’s just say this is about “design”, while I think of a better introduction for this category.
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