Inaugural Designs @ The design.lab
In high school I created my cross country team’s mix tape covers using scrap paper & a color copier. In graduate school I had to put together a number of giant posters and countless power point presentation slides. My favorite part was always coming up with the design.
Blogging Era
From the time I started this blog, I always enjoyed designing icons & playing around with the layout.
With the combination of a googled knowledge base, photoshop, apple screen capture, and powerpoint, I’ve been able to get everything I want done. I think of my web & graphic design method as self-taught design hacking.
As part of my blog birthday celebration, I decided to channel my love for design towards creating a set of social media icons for one of my readers.
The winner {posted here} was Libby at …a crafty balance…
Click any of the blog images below to visit Libby. She also shares some good thoughts on blogging {posted here}.
Here’s the blog before & after.
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design.lab — a free design resource in the pipeline
I’ve been working to organize a collection of my social media icons and other miscellaneous blog accessory designs. I will be posting them here for personal blog use. More details to come soon.