There have been quite a few things going on for me and Creative Curio outside of this site! Check out some of the things I’ve been up to lately.
Portfolio Featured!
As you know, I joined Art Bistro as a contributing writer (some of the articles from CC appear on the Art Bistro site).
Well today, my portfolio is featured on the homepage as well as the main Portfolios page! They hold informal contests each month and feature the designers who win. There is also a mini-interview with me (forgive the terseness of my last comment on advice to designers; I was told we had a 50 word limit for all of the answers combined!).
Of course, my work is only on the homepage today, Wednesday August 12, 2009, so in case you missed it, just go directly to my portfolio to see the work I’ve uploaded there.
CreativePro Article on Critiquing
The second piece of exciting news is that an article I wrote for CreativePro is live!
This is a classic Creative Curio article dissecting the design of a Greengate Garden ad. If you’ve enjoyed my other articles on the design theory, elements and principles of design, particularly the ones on Wrigley’s Tea Escapes and the Del Taco Campaign, then you’ll like this one, too, so head over and read it. Studying other people’s design helps us improve our own. Plus, it’s fun.
If you’ve never visited CreativePro before, after reading my article (of course!), check out the other resources they have available, particularly in the graphics and print sections.
Got Any Ideas?
Finally, I’m running dry on ideas for Creative Curio articles (can you tell?).
So dear reader, will you help me? Do you have any questions about design theory, practices or specific questions regarding using design programs like Photoshop, Illustrator or most especially InDesign? I would love to help you and others out by answering those questions! No question is a dumb question, so ask away in the comments below!!
Great stuff, Lauren! I hope they bring plenty of deserved new visitors. There was a good opportunity to link to your CC posts on shape, proportion, balance, texture etc. I wonder if any links were edited out of the Creative Pro post?
A few questions I hope bring some post ideas: Where do you see the blog going? What do you want to do with it in future? Have you attracted any clients as a direct result of your blog posts?
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Hi Lauren, I’m glad things are going well for you at the moment. I’d never heard of Art Bistro before now. I’ll check it out.
My question would be about this Sandbox theme. Did you customise it yourself, or did someone else do it? Do you plan to update it at some point for a change of scenery, so to speak? It’s a very uniques design, so I’m not suggesting it needs updating, I’m just curious about your plans for CC and the design
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I enjoy reading your blog so much! It’s just that all articles are long (or short) enough and simply to the point. I work a lot of hours and its exhausting, so I don’t want to ready “heavy lecture” at night.
I would definitely be interested in reading more critiques – will hopefully come up with some questions soon, but I’m trying to read all the articles first… *phew*
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this greengate garden thing is simply amazing! looking forward to more such stuff from you.
David,
You’re right, there were good opportunities to link to my articles from that one (maybe too many!) but I didn’t want to only promote my articles and I just didn’t feel right linking to 10 different articles on my blog. Those are good questions, too. I’ll have to think about them a bit, actually!
Thanks for always being so supportive of me and CC
Andrew,
I created the design and my husband did the front-end coding, just to quickly answer your question! I hadn’t planned on updating it; I still like it. Did you check out Art Bistro? What did you think?
Jess,
Thank you!! I’m so glad you enjoy my articles here. More critiques! Check. They seem to be what I’m becoming known for.
Ashely,
Thanks! Pleased you liked it.
Hi Lauren !
Some ideas for Creative Curio articles:
- your favorite illustrator technics
- your favorite logo design tutorials
(It’s always a time to learn from pro