step away from design and design

I’ve made up my mind — every Friday, give or take my work load of the week, I am going to dedicate 1–2 hours to just designing (and no I don’t mean designing for a client).

I aim to invest time to bring life and excitement into the work that I want to do, not only what is told of me and briefed upon. So today (Friday), I set aside an hour or so, opened up Photoshop and played around a bit. The poster seen below is the result.

if content is king…

A few days ago I saw an article floating around on Twitter titled “If Content Is King, Then What Is Design?” After thinking about the question my response was, “Design is the land of which the king rules.” My love for old vintage posters, with their quirky typography, complimentary colors and bold statements mixed with the article headline and my response led me to some exploration, letting go and about an hour and a half of fun.

Besides having a bit of fun at the end of a grueling work week, it also inspired me to jump back into the clients website design fully inspired again.

The poster reads If Content is King then Design is the Land of which the King Rules. Might go back into this at a later time and polish it up, but this is what my allotted time would allow this Friday.