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,…
HALLOWEENIE ROAST 2011 | Design + Video Recap
The Night the Buzz Stole XMAS | KRBZ
HELLO SEPTEMBER
Random Cool Websites | 7.20.11
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.
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
— Claude Debussy
“If I were to break my whiskey jug I expect I could glue it so it would look like a fine jug,” Augustus replied. “But it would still be leaky and let the whiskey run out. That’s the way it is with her, Woodrow. They might get her back in church and sing hymns at her till she stops screaming them screams. But she’ll always be leaky. She won’t never be right.”
— Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon
We rarely think about what we have, but always about what we lack.
— 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.
When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced.
— Lisa Taddeo, Animal
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.
— Rene Steinke, The Fires
“The trouble with problem solving,” Aldrin often complained, “is that too many people are making money off the problems.”
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
So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten.
Sons are like birds, flying always over the mountain.
— Iron & Wine, Upward Over The Mountain
You don't know me from the wind
You never will, you never did
This saddest time that has also been one of the happiest times in my life will pass. And I’ll be alone.
— Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
Religion had always been a bargaining process with Scarlett. She promised God good behavior in exchange for favors. God had broken the bargain time and again, to her way of thinking, and she felt that she owed Him nothing at all now.
You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
— Frederic Chopin
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
— Marcel Proust
The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.
— Camille Saint-Saëns
No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.
Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
— Anaïs Nin
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
— Charles Bukowski
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr
So it's always a process of letting go, one way or another.
— Charles Bukowski
I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
— Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
— E.B. White
Live long enough, and all things you ever loved can turn around to scorch you blind.
Don't fear failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
— Bruce Lee
I was relieved to see his face was not so dull, but the grief was still there, the heavy knowledge: my father is dead. He would wake up with that thought for a long time, I knew.
— Madeline Miller, Circe
Maybe I really am weird, like the girl said, or maybe I’m just a terrible, shallow person, but it often feels to me as though I had died, the once beautiful woman said. All those years ago I died, and I’ve been a ghost ever since. I’ve been mourning my lost self ever since, and nothing, not even my love for my children and grandchildren, can make up for it.
— Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
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.
We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Always do what you are afraid to do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
— George Carlin
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
and death i think is no parenthesis
— e.e. cummings
It's just when it's summer in the city and you are long gone from this city, I start to miss you baby, sometimes.
— Regina Spektor, Summer in the City
How rude of the dead to die. How selfish. Wherever they are, no pain, in eternal darkness or wondrous afterlife. And here we are, tears streaming down our cheeks, the knotted stomach and clammy palms, a feeling akin to falling, in a dream that won’t end.
If I saw no humor in my unraveling, I'd have been dead long ago.
— Melissa Broder, Death Valley
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don't.
— Jennette McCurdy, I’m Glad My Mom Died
For a sunrise or a sunset,
You're manic or you're depressed,
Will you ever feel okay?
— Bright Eyes, Sunrise, Sunset
She was less frightened also because life had taken on the quality of a dream, a dream too terrible to be real. It wasn’t possible that she, Scarlett O’Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her every hour, every minute. It wasn’t possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.