Haven’t you ever wanted to know how to create the worst, ugliest, most badly designed website ever know to man?

Yeah, I thought so.

Check out how you can here.

How well do you know your fonts?   Test your typeface recognizing ability by playing this quick game from ilovetypography.com.

Click here to play the game!

I was able to identify 14/34.  I’ll have to retake the test in about a year and see how much my score improves after more time studying & working with graphic design!

While browsing through design blogs, I came across this humorous list of “25 Reaons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer.”

The ones I thought applied best to me are listed below.

• You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
• You consider meals interruptions.
• You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving. 
• You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
• You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
• When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
• You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
• You’ve actually $paid for a font.
• You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
• You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.

Enjoy!

This is the second domain name I have purchased for myself. I’m pretty excited.

When I was about nine years old, I started coding web pages. At one time, I boasted of having created over 200 sites. While that was probably true, I’m absolutely positive that only about 1% of those were well designed.

Since then, I have honed my design skills through various ways: looking at what others have created, reading books & magazines, and studying at Wake Technical Community College.

In this blog, I intend to share with you my exciting foray into the world of graphic design. What I’m learning, amazing designers & people I’ve met (as Mike Joosse said at DYF 2008, “everyone is a designer!”), and great design I’ve discovered.

au revoir!