The Importance of Typography in your Website Design
Typography refers to the ease and readability of your website content. Make sure that your potential clients can read the message you’re trying to portray.
RICHARD SEYMOUR: Designer on Beauty
TedTalks: Designer on Beauty. Richard Seymour, a designer and author, talks about the emotional connection we have to things and our perceptions of beauty.
Evolution of Business Cards: An Infographic
Where did Business Cards come frome? Check this out – The evolution of Business Cards, Infographic style.
RESPECT THE MOOSE | Poster Design
That’s right. Respect the Moose!
WTF | Clients From Hell
ClientsFromHell.net is, to say the least, one of my favorites sites whenever I need a little comic relief from the constant barrage of design on my plate.
A LESSON ON TYPOGRAPHY
An awesome short film, definitely worth watching. { Courtesy of Fatxican. }
Graphic Design Humor | “Yo Mama”
If you are a fellow girl geek, nerd, designer, whatever- like me- then you may find the following graphic design humor insanely, ridiculously, hilarious.
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WEB DESIGNERS.
All that you need to know about web designers.
NEW PORTFOLIO
I have been working constantly on my New Portfolio for potential clients & employers for the past two days. I have to say, I’m pretty happy with how it’s turning out so far. Check it out if you feel so inclined!
ON BRIDGES & UNDERSTATEMENTS.
And so, I will keep it brief: Firstly, I will say I am no longer employed. This came as not only a great shock but a wake up call as well that not only was I not happy with where my life was heading exactly,…
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HELLO SEPTEMBER
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A list of random cool websites i’ve found recently- everything from van gogh to calvin & hobbes to best opening lines from books.
MY SUMMER GARDEN | photography
Summer Garden Photography
LUCKY
( radiohead – lucky )
About
My name is Jessie & this is my blog. I live just outside of Kansas City. I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
My name is Jessie & this is my blog.
I live just outside of Kansas City.
I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
Strays is what a writer I recently read calls those who, for one reason or another, and despite whatever they might have wanted earlier in life, never really become a part of life, not in the way most people do. They may have serious relationships, they may have friends, even a sizable circle, they may spend large portions of their time in the company of others. But they never marry and they never have children. On holidays, they join some family or other group. This goes on year after year, until they finally find it in themselves to admit that they’d really rather just stay home.
The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don’t we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let’s laugh about it.
— Bob Newhart
She did not know she was drunk, drunk with fatigue and whisky. She only knew she had left her tired body and floated somewhere above it where there was no pain and no weariness and her brain saw things with an inhuman clarity.
The world is a hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Lord have mercy on my rough & rowdy ways.
— The Head & The Heart, Down in the Valley
Something still exists as long as there’s someone around to remember it.
— Jodi Picoult
Once my heart was filled with the love of a girl,
I held her close but she faded in the night,
like a poem i meant to write...
— Simon & Garfunkel, Leaves That Are Green
She said women are considered strong these days only if they didn’t talk about things they loved that didn’t love them, if they didn’t get hurt or allow themselves to be occasionally humiliated at their own hands, when, really, strength was being unashamed to want what you want.
— Lisa Taddeo, Animal
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.
At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
People diminish me; the longer I sit and listen to them the more empty I feel but I don't get the idea that they feel empty, I feel that they enjoy the sound from their mouths.
— Charles Bukowski
In the old days, now dead and gone, life had been so complex, so full of intricate and complicated problems.
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
— Charles Bukowski
I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
— Robin Williams
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
— Leo Tolstoy
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I lie to myself all the time, but I never believe me.
— S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.
— Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.
— Groucho Marx
Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild...
— Mary Karr, The Liars Club
When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.
But the trouble with getting what you've always wanted is that once you have it, you have to worry that you'll lose it.
— Katherine Center, The Lost Husband
Any rose can succumb to rot, given the right conditions. But, with enough attention, it can come back better than before.
— K.A. Tucker, Be The Girl
But such was death - it had nothing to say.
— Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
I can't find those church bells.
— Tori Amos, Playboy Mommy
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever.
— Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with masts and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.
That was the beauty of nature—it was always a step ahead, privy to a joke he did not know, a riddle with no answer.
— Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water
Chilling winds swept beneath the doorsills and rattled the loose windowpanes with a monotonous tinkling sound. The last of the leaves fell from the bare trees and only the pines stood clothed, black and cold against pale skies. The rutted red roads were frozen to flintiness and hunger rode the winds through Georgia.
I know I can't keep living in this dead or dying dream.
— Bright Eyes, June On the West Coat
But everything's always been fucked up. Since the dawn of time. That's why people find each other. For comfort. For shelter. They find their own little crevice in the world, shielded from all the horror.
— Drew Magary, The Postmortal
I would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
— Roald Dahl
In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Imagine, forty years with the same man and still the thought of him made her blush. If true love ever existed, that was it.
— Tracy Brogan, Crazy Little Thing
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
— Helen Keller
"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved. 'Burn the Louvre,' the mechanic says, 'and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.'
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I saw a star, falling from grace
And I'd played pretend, hoping one day
I'd be the girl with that twisted fate
And I'd have a story, and they'd know my name
We humans can justify anything can't we? Thats how our corruption begins. That's why I like demons. They don't make excuses. They accept their wickedness.
— Shinobu Sensui
I need a father, I need a mother, I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God but the sky is empty
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
What lies inside a cage of flames? The truth, the heart, but burned up before you can see it. Only traces remain in the ashes, a pattern you guess at or invent, an intangible thing that might leave a mark, but could just as easily blow away.