Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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Oh yeah… Some time this week Mafe Maria has turned one year old, and an enthusiastic “Spanish” song is in order: Japi verdei tu yu… Japi verdei tu yu… Japi verdei Mafecitaaaaa… Japi verdei tuuuuu yuuuuuu About a year ago I began writing publicly — and secretly. Today, on my best day, FeedBurner reports 29 [...]
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 [...]
The shiny stars of the web design blogosphere — and their loyal readership — are flaming with a heated discussion about the lack of diversity among speakers at web conferences. While some of the opinions touch on the wider meaning of “diversity”, most of the argument centers around the issue of gender diversity. Kottke started [...]
My dear husband has threatened to delete my site’s feed from his feed reader if I continue not posting, which is ridiculous since, a) I was the first one to threaten him because he hadn’t written in months and his feed was occupying precious space in my Sage bar, and b) he’s only subscribed to [...]
—Why are you making that culo face? —[silence] —What’s wrong??? Are you mad at me? Have I done something wrong??? —My server is down again. I can’t work —Again?… Seems like you need to change hosting companies… —I can’t. Media Temple is supposed to be THE BEST —Oh —Yeah [back to culo face] What are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dear Yaw Osafo-Ansong, Congratulations on the recent launch of your web design business and web site “MQStudios”. As you well know, my name is Maria Q. Stultz, and I own a small but successful web design business named “MQStudio“, operating online since Aug, 2003. Mr. Osafo-Ansong… May I call you Alantee?… I am extremely surprised [...]
Web Design is one of my passions and what I do today for a living. I currently work as a freelancer, and absolutely LOVE IT. Anything that I may want to share related to that work will be posted here.
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