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JOURNAL.

Thoughts, musings (some may say rants) on the state of design, technology, 3D printing and the future.

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TO CUTE OR NOT TO CUTE.

As a female designer we often get relegated to the ‘make things pretty’ corner. On a number of occasions when people find out I am a designer they often say, ‘oh you make things pretty’ or ‘cute’. However as a lover of all thing cute, I am torn between wanting to own/embrace the cute, or reject…

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TO HAMBURGER OR NOT TO HAMBURGER

As a designer, we love to make things as simple and uncluttered as possible. So a couple of years ago when the ‘hamburger’ menu became more popularised (due to high mobile browsing) I was personally quite excited — as it tidied away all those ‘distracting’ header menus. Now, let me preface this to say – from…

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DOES SIZE MATTER?

You know what I’m talking about – right?   No, not that you guys… I am talking about the size of your clients. Most of my career has been working with a pretty decent cross section of clients, I started to think I should get some bigger clients with bigger budgets? (The grass is always greener on the other side.)…

BRANDS.

I have worked on projects for large corporate brands through to fledgling businesses and startups. Every new project gives me the opportunity to bring some (often much needed) personality or fresh eyes to the brand.