Coffee & Honeycomb: nerd

Sunday, July 21, 2013

I am a design [noob]. However, I'd like to change that! (: Today was step one.

Like the chevron? I learned how through this quick and simple tutorial. If you click on the photo, it will take you directly to the link where I learned how. You should definitely try it, I promise it's dummy-proof.

And the gradient? That was all me. ;) Once I covered my artboard with the chevron pattern, I changed the opacity of lines in pairs, starting from 50% all the way to 100%. (So, all lines are the same color, the top two lines are just of it as 50% opacity, and the bottom lines are the true colors, 100%).

Depending on your pattern and design, this will change, but it's the same idea. Then I pasted some text on it to tell a narrative. This is my simple and lazy way to begin documenting my beginner design story... And I'd love to hear yours, too!

Are you an Adobe user? Whether it be a beginner or pro, I'd love to check our your work, too. Share below! :)

Cheers!

Saturday, April 13, 2013

I was always a reader. My earliest memories are sitting on my parents' lap as they read aloud "Junie B. Jones" while my chubby finger traced the words and turned the pages. In daycare, I remember an older girl teaching me with silly picture books during nap time. We pushed our cots extra close and got lost in, "The Stupids," and "Amelia Bedelia" while our peers wet their beds and picked their noses.

My mom and I made weekly trips to the library and I spent hours browsing the book shelves, memorizing every book jacket and summary. Stacks of books came home with me to keep me company for the week. And they followed me everywhere -- in the bath tub, before bed, while tanning, during long car rides, after tests. I usually tried to stick to the recommended lists, but I also allowed trashy reads and was admittedly addicted to anything and everything Mary Kate and Ashley Olson, including the Full House series, and later on, Jodi Picoult. This love and fascination for the world of words carried over to my teen years and my parents always scolded me because my eye sight was getting worse from squinting at small prints.

I haven't been reading as much recently, but with all the down time traveling has provided, I want to start utilizing it with some reading. (: So far, I've read, "The Kite Runner," "Wait for Me," "Work for Hire," "Live by Ear," and re-read, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." Those were all either a free Kindle e-book or lent by a friend. They were all fun but also just easy beach reads, and now I'm willing to spend some monies for more recent or substantial titles.These are some I plan to read next: