Design Mom Archives - Laurie Smithwick

Graphic Design 201

By Lauriedesign, teaching, typographyOne Comment

I’ve been teaching design classes for my friends over at Alt Channel for about a year now. They’re one of my very favorite things, and, if you haven’t already, I hope you get to participate in one someday. For those of you who took my Graphic Design for Bloggers 201 class, here are some resources for you. Color: Smashing Magazine’s incredibly detailed and thorough series on Color Theory — Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color Color Theory For Designers, Part 2: Understanding Concepts And Terminology Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your Own Color Palettes…

altitude design summit

By Laurieannouncing, conferences, designNo Comments

I’m a little late, as usual, but I finally bought my tickets to the alt summit and I am so freakin excited! Have you looked at the speaker list lately? Holy cow it just goes on and on and on with awesome. And I’m lucky enough to be speaking too! Moderating, actually. A panel about designing online and its inherent challenges. Where do we even begin? The bloggers and designers and tastemakers that are coming to this conference kinda make my mouth hang open with awe, like the neighbor kid in The Incredibles watching Mr. Incredible pick up his car….

muses: design mom

By Lauriemuses5 Comments

I’ve thought for weeks about the best way to ease my way into daily posting (which, even when I was blogging regularly, I never did). It seems apparent to me that many bloggers do it by way of prompts. A series of subjects to discuss, in rotation, to the extent that they become regular “features.” So I’m going to start things off with an inspiration series called muses. This will feature blogs and people who inspire me and who are my go-to reads/looks when I have a few spare seconds for reading/looking. And who better to kick things off with…