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By Design
June 28th, 2006 | 2 Comments
I really love the design process. Web design particularly appeals to me because I’m just a visually-oriented person, but ask me to design anything–instructional materials, psychology experiments, knitted items, etc.–and I’ll be sufficiently absorbed for hours, days, weeks.
I love the challenge of it; the more restrictions you give me, the more I enjoy the process. It’s like a brain teaser, or a dare.
Design is, in some ways, the midway point between engineering and fine art. In order to get something that is both functional and beautiful, you must design. Working at this intersection between the left and right brains is where I feel most content.
Yve-ning News
June 6th, 2006 | No Comments
So another month has gone by without me posting. Oops. But never fear, I have been busy. Not just on the working and knitting fronts, but also on the web designing front.
Faces of Yve, my web design and free blog templates site is once again alive and kicking. I’ve re-developed it as a web design e-zine with tutorials and more user-friendly templates.
Please go take a look!
Casting a Net
March 27th, 2006 | 1 Comment
I got my iPod as a graduation gift from my parents. I asked them for an iPod after getting thoroughly frustrated at trying to run carrying a portable CD player. That was the summer of my first attempt to train for a 5K.
Long-time readers may remember that that ended after I threw out my back and wound up literally unable to walk for a week, which was quickly followed by recurring injuries to both ankles (the tale of that was, of course, toasted during the changeover to pMachine). Forced to make a choice between training for a 5K or playing Ultimate Frisbee because my body clearly was not wanting to do both, I opted to play Ultimate Frisbee. Yay team sports!
