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• Photo Holiday Cards: Minted Again

  Thanks everyone for voting in Minted.com’s Holiday Photo Card Design Contest.
  Both designs I submitted were runner-ups (yay!) and will be for sale on Minted.com for the holiday season soon. Each of the designs have an alternate color combination, too.

  There were more contest entries this time and so many wonderful designs!
  You can view the winning designs [...]

  Posted on Jun 30.08 to cards, design, photography   

• Vote for Your Favorite Holiday Card Designs

  Minted has opened their latest card design contest (Holiday cards) for voting!
  Here are my submissions for the contest:
  Peppermint Spark

  Oh Joy!

  I’m among a group of some seriously talented designers.
  Please head over to Minted and cast you vote. You can rate all the designs on a scale of 1 (Not so much) to 5 (Love it).
  Voting [...]

  Posted on Jun 10.08 to cards, design, photography   

• I’ve Been Minted

  Back in April I entered a photo save-the-date card contest at Minted.
  A couple of weeks ago, I learned that while I didn’t place in the top spots, Minted wanted to sell my design through their site as a runner-up!
  Here is the design as it was entered in the contest:

  The design had to be tweaked to [...]

  Posted on Jun 10.08 to design, invitations, photography, wedding   

• A Little Moo Therapy

  I found some retail therapy while selecting images for some Moo minicards.
  It didn’t take long and that one hour away from concepts, mockups and code in the wee hours of the night was bliss.
  (Apologies for May being so dry with a lack of postings. It really has been nutty!)
  Here’s a sampling of some of my [...]

  Posted on Jun 08.08 to classes, design, photography, web design   

• My One of 50,000 Shirts for China

  Discovered via mostinpired.com, I just reserved my t-shirt to help raise $1,000,000 for those in China affected by the earthquake.
  Visit fiftythousandshirts.com to help one person give hope, together.

  Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window [...]

  Posted on May 22.08 to design   

• Happy Earth Day

  Nearly one year ago, my husband and I began work on the Blue Planet Run book project.

  Since then awareness of water in our lives is heightened and we have made greater efforts to be more conscious consumers of water.
  For example, we make every effort to take shorter showers. We use more water-friendly soaps and detergents [...]

  Posted on Apr 22.08 to books, classes, design, food for thought, photography, portland   

• Finally, The Big Yellow FontBook

  After what feels like years of yearning, I had a major shopping attack and decided to buy my very own FontBook.
  I’m elated.

  With this reference, I hope finding that perfect typeface to fit the project will be much faster than browsing through pages on the web. And, for awhile, I’ve been keeping a myFaveType folder with [...]

  Posted on Mar 31.08 to books, design, typography   

• “Book(let)” 38 by Kevin Miyazaki

  I’ve ordered my edition just now and eager to hold Kevin’s work in my hands.

  A few days ago he announced the availability of 38:
  For your consideration, a booklet and print.
  This is something new for me, inspired by similar projects by online galleries and other photographers and unique to the wide reach and accessibility of blogs. [...]

  Posted on Mar 27.08 to books, design, photographers, photography   

• Have a Self-Published Photo Book? Enter Photography.Book.Now for a chance to win $25,000

  Blurb is sponsoring a photography book competition called photography[book]now.
  Anyone with a self-published photography book can enter (hand-made books are not eligible) for a chance to win the grand prize: $25,000 to finish or start any project of your choice.
  Be sure to read the FAQs and the Rules.
  As of today, judges have yet to be announced [...]

  Posted on Mar 22.08 to books, design, photography