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Yesterday, I was given the opportunity to visit an open-house hosted by the friendly folks at Fresh Produce, an advertising agency in downtown Sioux Falls. We got there a little after they had started, so I didn’t catch all of their presention, but we got to walk throughout their building and observe their work, as… Read more

Last week I was in my New Media Development class going through XD functions, and figured I should talk a little about what I learned in class. We went over how to apply animation to elements in your artboards, such as buttons, sliders, or anything you want to animate. How to do this is to… Read more

Last week I had the opportunity to get some more outdoor photography practice by shooting photos of my boss’s family up at Tuthill Park. I practiced group photography and got some detailed close-ups of flowers, butterflies, and bumblebees. I was able to use my brand-new 75-300mm lens for some long-distance shots as well. It was… Read more

There are a few different reasons why I decided to delve into the world of design, and I figured I would list some of those things in my blog to show a bit of my journey to where I am now. The idea came from my Web Design class in my senior year of high… Read more

I think we can all agree at this point that AI has officially taken over the media recently, and is rapidly advancing all of the time. There are a lot of great things coming from AI that are extremely helpful in inspiring ideas and conducting research, but there are also many cons that come with… Read more

The Adobe font Minion has a history dating back to the early 1990s. It was designed by Robert Slimbach and inspired by the classic typefaces of the Renaissance, particularly the work of Claude Garamond, a 16th-century printer. Minion was officially released in 1990 as part of Adobe’s PostScript Type 1 font collection. Robert Slimbach made… Read more

I recently read the article “The 12 Most Inspiring Graphic Design Trends of 2023” at 99designs.com, and decided I’d list and describe 3 of the trends I liked the most. 1. Folk Botanical I’ve always enjoyed botanical designs and patterns on almost anything, I feel that it gives things a more lively and organic appearance.… Read more

This wasn’t a “point of purchase” display because I can’t actually buy these, as I’m only 20. The Packaging and style of the beverage Beatbox has caught my eye many times recently, as we just started distributing it at my job, Beal Distributing, not too long ago. The in-store displays are bright and colorful, and… Read more

Over the past two months of summer, I focused on a few different projects to keep myself in tune with our Adobe softwares. I took some still & motion shots at one of my brother’s baseball games, and had to edit them in Bridge and Camera Raw for the best results. Unfortunately this was before… Read more

This summer I will be working on my photography and photoshop skills with the things that I learned in my photography class, as well as my Design Fundamentals class. I really enjoyed the projects we did in my photography course, and I have a lot of fun taking different types of pictures and trying out… Read more