Friday, August 18, 2006

Let's get started


O.K. so this is my first post and I wanted to be clever and witty and oh so designerish..
but all I could think of was, what do I write about? There is a lot of pressure when you think that a handful of people could read this. I'll just start off writing about me. Me, me, me!
I have been working as a designer for about 14 years. I started fresh out of school working for a woman who was pretty much absent from her business because her husband was very ill. I was left to run the whole design business on my own. Talk about sink or swim! Well luckily, I swam. That was the best experience I could have had. What you learn in school and what happens in the real world, is a totally different thing. I loved the pressure and I loved being on my own.
I also learned in school, that you either have an eye for design or you don't. Some of the other students in my class tried so hard to make something work but could never get it right. Not to toot my own horn but... I was always the poor student that had the beautiful apartment. People couldn't believe the things that I could do on a very low budget. When you have the eye, it doesn't seem like a chore.
I started my own business in 1995 and It was the best thing I could have done. My clients are amazing and I love what I do. I am going to use this blog as a way to give people my suggestions about different design ideas or thoughts. Some will be helpful, some just downright silly but hopefully, always entertaining. I hope you join me from time to time.