Creative Design Tour – Kids Craft Room

Kids Craft Room

I recently met Margaret Norcott, Principal of Milieu Design Group through the Martha Stewart Dreamers Into Doers Community. I was wowed by the Kids Craft Suite she designed for the Atlanta Symphony Show House and Gardens. Can you imagine having this in your home? I think most of us would rather have this for ourselves… [...]

Cardboard Tree House

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When I was 6 years old, my dad built me a tree house. It had an upstairs and even a fireman’s pole to slide down! I have many fond memories of playing in my super cool tree house. I’ve always wanted to build one for my kids. We have a great backyard with several big [...]

Think About Your Brand

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I was recently on a speaking panel about graphic design at Blissdom. We discussed blog design basics like, less is more… white space is good, avoid using more than two types of fonts, keep photos to 500-800 pixels wide (depending on your column width) and other things like keeping your number of posts at three [...]

Now that’s a nice font!

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I don’t know where I’ve been… but I just discovered The League of Moveable Type and had to share it with you. Caroline and Micah, the founders of The League, have a calling to raise the standards of the web-design world by contributing high quality free typefaces. Here is what they state about the font usage: [...]