My new toy

Ok, so a new monitor is really not that big of a deal, but I was working on a 19″ standard before. Of course, I use my laptop as a second monitor, so it wasn’t all bad, even before. This new one is a 24″ Dell, and, as you see in the picture, I can design magazine spreads perfectly using it. The spread shown is from the September-October edition of Rock Hill Magazine. If you haven’t picked it up yet, you’re missing out! This is a great new magazine.

The other piece to this is now you get to see where I spend my days working. More pictures to come later; I need advice on a new desk chair!

One of my first design projects

Me in my room at 15, being photographed by The Charlotte Observer for an article about the teen panel I was a member of. I was very proud of my wall! Susan jokes that I was able to turn it into a career …

“I designed my own …”

As a graphic designer who does custom commissioned work, my job is to listen to my clients and create designs based on their wants and needs. I am not a puppet reproducing the work exactly as they request it; I am adding my own style to each piece and making certain that the pieces are [...]

10 years ago | 10 years later

Written on August 29, 1994: In ten years I would like to be out of college and married. [10-year-later update: I was 4 years out of college, and I was married exactly 10 years and 6 days after this was written] I want to be a journalist at a large newspaper, perhaps writing editorials. [10-year-later [...]

I was Privileged …

Designing a blog header The great thing about working with my friend Chris is that we are on the same wavelength and have the same goals when it comes to design: Simple, readable, modern. I should state we don’t officially work together. We have separate companies and live in separate cities. But we talk via Instant Messaging [...]

September 11, 2001

On that day 7 years ago, I was still a rookie copy editor and page designer at the newspaper. Fresh from college, I had been working there just 9 months, and this day would be the first day I would see what an impact working for the media can have – not just on the [...]