“Freedom to Groove.” Just submitted my Bonnaroo Design for this years competition.  Have you seen the line up this year!?!? Tenacious D, Dave Matthews, Stevie Wonder, Conan O’Brien, Steve Martin, Mumford & Sons, John Butler Trio, OK GO, and sooo much more. I went to Bonnaroo in 2008 and it was pretty wild. One of the best and worst times of my life. SO many great bands smack dab in the middle of an inferno. haha. Huge field in 102 degree temperatures with no shade.  My sunburn prevented the stretching of my smile when Trey stepped out on stage with Les Claypool. HA. It was my own fault though…no sunblock…no hat. So this genius got what was deserved. So many more stories though.  Bonnaroo never disappoints for a plethora of stories.

“Freedom to Groove.”

Just submitted my Bonnaroo Design for this years competition.  Have you seen the line up this year!?!? Tenacious D, Dave Matthews, Stevie Wonder, Conan O’Brien, Steve Martin, Mumford & Sons, John Butler Trio, OK GO, and sooo much more.

I went to Bonnaroo in 2008 and it was pretty wild. One of the best and worst times of my life. SO many great bands smack dab in the middle of an inferno. haha. Huge field in 102 degree temperatures with no shade.  My sunburn prevented the stretching of my smile when Trey stepped out on stage with Les Claypool. HA. It was my own fault though…no sunblock…no hat. So this genius got what was deserved. So many more stories though.  Bonnaroo never disappoints for a plethora of stories.

TOAST CLOCK <—— Why I want this so bad…I just don’t know. Toast gets no respect. People are always dressing it up with fancy toppings or using it to sop up a tasty broth. Its as if toast has become nothing but a means to get other food in your mouth. But, just stop for a minute and think about a world without toast… scary, isn’t it?

TOAST CLOCK <—— Why I want this so bad…I just don’t know.

Toast gets no respect. People are always dressing it up with fancy toppings or using it to sop up a tasty broth. Its as if toast has become nothing but a means to get other food in your mouth. But, just stop for a minute and think about a world without toast… scary, isn’t it?

HAHA!! Zak is my hero. Such a powerful stare. haha.

Freelance Designer v. In-House Designer

Top 25 Reasons “You Know” You’re a Graphic Designer

1. You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.

2. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.

3. You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.

4. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.

5. You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.

6. You consider meals interruptions. (HAHA soo true!)

7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.

8. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.

9. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.

10. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.

11. You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.

12. When you heard that Adobe was aquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.

13. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)

14. You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.

15. You’ve actually $paid for a font.

16. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)

17. The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.

18. You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.

19. You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.

20. You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)spinning beachball o’ death

21. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.

22. You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.

23. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.

24. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.

25. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.

Enjoy.

Hoverchair Studios (my design site)

If you read my blog you’ll know I’m a pilates freak, and by pilates I mean waffles.

If you read my blog you’ll know I’m a pilates freak, and by pilates I mean waffles.