I knew I first wanted to be a designer when..

This interesting post from AceJet posed a good question: when did you first decide you wanted to be a designer?
I thought it would be an interesting conversation topic. SO COMMENT YO.
I first realized I wanted to become a designer way back in high school.
I joined the newspaper staff in high school not really knowing what I was getting into. For lack of dedicated staffers, I was immediately made an editor. I crash coursed through InDesign and never looked back. I knew I could live my life creating things in this program and never grow tired of it.
How about you all?

Books Redesign

So when I was on spring break I've noticed a lot of book cover redesigns. I'm all about this, as it combines my live of reading and design.

I am, however, an advocate of content driven design. So when I see a book cover and I don't immediately "get" where the concept is from, I have an issue with that.

There's so much to draw inspiration from, so many visual things from the story I just don't understand why you would use a random pattern.

Maybe I'll do some redesigns of my own. MAYBE I WILL.

Alice in Wonderland literally has so many FANTASTIC visual elements to draw from, it inspires designers everywhere. I don't see the point of just polka dots.

Feathers? Pride and Prejudice? Are there birds a big thing in this book and I don't remember?

....yes.

you're starting to lose me, anthropologie.

.... don't. i can't even.

YES. TEAPOTS. WE ARE GETTING THERE. GOOD JOB.

ABBIE STAMP OF APPROVAL.

Photo inspiration 4/7

This is my niece, Izabella. AWWWWE HER WITTLE EASTER DRESS

Can't Miss: AceJet- The only way is ethics

An AceJet review of a book can get me excited about anything.

This book is going to be made into a film. The work is the designs of Ken Garland, whose designs have obvious Swiss type influences mixed in. There's also a bit of late 70s early 80s vibe to the designs included in the book.

Chchchcheck it out! Pixel app

Recently, AceJet posted about this pixel app.

AceJet raved about it, but I don't personally care for it. To me making my pictures unrecognizable is several steps worse than Instagram.
The site says "With the help of pxl it is very easy to create a new avatar picture or a unique background for your iOS device!"
I don't really want my avatar to not look like a person. Perhaps for a background, but I'll stick with the one I've got.

This isn't really my style, what do you guys think?

Can't Miss: AceJet Transit Maps

I know everyone loves maps of mass transit systems, a well designed one almost always ends up as a poster.

I think this post by AceJet is neat because it shows every step along the way of the planning process. And since so many people love New York, I thought this would be a neat thing to share. Enjoy!

Photo Inspiration 4/2

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting beautiful and historical Charleston, SC. It wasn't quite the warm sunny beach scene I hoped it would be (like the picture I posted last week), but it was still a good time! Lots of beautiful things to see.

Charleston has the nickname of "The Holy City" because so many church towers dominate the skyline.

Beautiful architecture everywhere.