marylouisekillen.com

Greetings to one and all!

Hope this post finds you well whether you are nestled in blankets of snow (Upper Midwest), droplets of humidity (Southern Louisiana), gray skies stretching along rolling hills (England) or elsewhere. 

I have arrived in the UK for a year of study (MA Typeface Design, Uni of Reading) and cultural immersion abroad. With class well under way, typeface design brainstorms simmering and thoughts of dissertations swirling through my sketchbook, I invite you to join the ride online. Off to the St. Bride Library this Tuesday for a first lecture of the season: Late Letterpress: the work of Desmond Jeffery.

A few months have flown by, and I have new website to share.
Stop by> marylouisekillen.com

View
- past and present work
- type design discoveries
- neighborhood hunt
- news, is good news (hoping to be updated weekly)

Cheers!
Mary Louise Killen

HOW: Top 10 Sites for Designers

Top 10 Sites for Designers

http://artdesign365.blogspot.com/
Art Design 3[6]5
To celebrate her 35th birthday, designer & artist Somsara Rielly is creating a collage a day for 365 days.

http://www.erwinbauer.com
bauer – concept & design
The portfolio site of this design studio in Vienna offers a peek into current European design.

http://www.burningsettlerscabin.com/
Burning Settler Cabin
Burning Settlers Cabin is AdamsMorioka’s blog. "We’re interested in good, plain optimism in design. This is where we share some of our thinking and inspirations."

http://www.migreyes.com
Mig Reyes
The groovy portfolio for the Chicago-based skinnyCorp/Threadless designer (and chocolate chip-cookie connoisseur) Mig Reyes.

http://www.oliverrussell.com
Oliver Russell
Oliver Russell is a direct marketing agency based in Boise, Idaho. Their site proves that strong creative and direct marketing not only co-exist, but happily thrive together.

http://www.theaestheticsdept.com
The Aesthetics Department
The Aesthetics Department is a small creative studio based in Los Angeles.

http://theblacksnapper.com
The Black Snapper
The Black Snapper presents young photography talent from all over the world.

http://www.thegoldenblack.com
The Golden Black
The Golden Black offers artist series fonts and vector illustration sets perfect for hardcore clients.

http://www.useaconcept.com
Use A Concept
A blog dedicated to helping students increase their design awareness and creativity.

http://zohora.com
Zachariah O'Hora
Funny, beautiful and inspiring illustration that can turn a bad day into a good one.

HOW

12 Worst Photoshop Mistakes

http://www.oddee.com/item_96450.aspx

History of Times New Roman

It may not be our favourite ever typeface, it may not be the sexiest font either, but i remember it being one of the first times i noticed the svelt lines in which serif faces slink around, retaining all the poise of their characters. While their modernist & post-modernist cousins, the sans faces, thought simply of getting the job done, serifs still had class and always wore black suits.

A look into the history of Times New Roman.

Realizations of Rounded Rectangles

in a color class while studying graph design in college, i read a book about the rods and cones of the eyes being suited to three primary colors. so it's no surprise to hear that there's research suggesting the certain shapes are more easily processed by the human eye: rounded rectangles are easier on our eyes than rectangles with hard corners.

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I.T. by Design: Home, et al

I.T. by Design: Home
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My job duties are varied: i handle all of the graphic assets for marketing, the branding guidelines, the office stationery, the print ads and the online ads. i also do a lot of billable work too: i make the icons for our web apps and our desktop apps; i make the ui frontends for our web apps and our desktop apps. in this, i work in a number of workflow contexts: sharepoint designer, visual studio 2008 (rarely work in visual studio 2005), and my fave app workflow context: Coda or BBEdit with CSSEdit for markup-related things and PhotoShop for mockups and icons (not forgetting, pardon me, the necessity of illustrator structures for my PhotoShop portions).

But i am seriously digressing from what i INTENDED to talk about: we have a new site. While our new site, http://www.itbydesign.us, is a collaborative effort between our marketing girl, our president, one of our developers and myself, i am THE SOLE designer on this project and so the design decisions were basically mine (at least when i wasn't busy arguing with the marketing girl).