A total noob’s process of building a 120 sq ft creative space for working from home. — ⏱ August 29-September 19, 2018 In my mind, the most important part of this whole thing is the foundation. If this part is screwed up (not level and/or not plumb), the whole structure is going to have major problems. 🙀 No pressure… We started by getting a few wooden stakes…

A total noob’s process of building a 120 sq ft creative space for working from home. — So here we go. I want to build an office in my backyard. Currently, there are trees where I want to build it… Let’s get something straight right away— I don’t know what I’m doing. 👉 My Goal: Build a small, functional, creative space for as little money as possible…

How to quickly obscure the logo on that one project you want to share (but can’t show who it’s for). — You’ve been there. You were hired by [insert really cool company here] to design the UI for their new product, but you can’t tell the world that you’re doing it for them. However, you want to post your concept to Dribbble for feedback (and/or for show & tell 🙃). You’ve…

Using Adobe Illustrator CC to create a repeat pattern using a tile generated in Adobe Capture CC. — In Part 1, we used Adobe Capture CC to generate a pattern tile that we’re now going to recreate in a vector format using Adobe Illustrator. (Capture CC’s pattern feature is geared more for use in Photoshop, but I like my patterns to be vector. Infinite scalability, y’all. 😎) Step 1: Create Your Document

Using Adobe Capture CC to quickly generate patterns from your own images. — One evening recently, I discovered an extremely powerful (not to mention fun and easy) tool to create patterns. It had me so jazzed that I stayed up late creating beautiful patterns from photos I had taken in the weeks prior. Meet Adobe’s new app, Capture CC (actually, I’m not sure…

A quick guide for developers who need to extract attributes and assets within Sketch. — Preface: I’m a designer, not a developer [yet]. This post is geared specifically towards developers who have little to no experience with Sketch, but need to get up and running quickly. Dear Developers, I hope this article saves you hours of time and enhances your relationship with the designers you…

I first entered the design world during my freshman year of college via a bootleg copy of Photoshop 7. I spent sleepless nights going through tutorials in my dorm room at the University of Georgia back in the Fall of 2004. I was playing drums in a pop-punk band at…

“Real conversations were what I was after, not lectures. I wanted no rockstars, just humans…Every detail mattered…The same attention I put into my designs, I was putting into this experience.” — Dann Petty These are words that detail out the heart and spirit behind the first Epicurrence. I’d heard great…

Designing a full on typeface can take months, or longer, depending on the designer and the vision behind the type. A lot of time can be spent developing the upper & lowercase letterforms, perfecting kerning, creating alternate weights, and adding diacritics & language support, etc. …