math for art majors
Cheryl and Co. package design (click for full image)
OK - who thought up this HTML stuff anyway? You can bet it wasn’t the art folks! It had to be some geeky brainy guy who said “Look! We can make stuff pretty by just typing in some letters and symbols - such as: > } div # { /> href: ” } COOL!” (Or - in my own words - *&#$!(@!#&). Or maybe it was a bar bet. That was fine, until all of sudden, us right brain designers were expected not only to understand it, but to create websites with it.
Ad for ECS Billing and Consulting (click for full image)
Maybe I speak for myself, but when I look at this stuff, it is TOTALLY greek to me. My brain has a terrible time visualizing how a series of numbers, symbols and letters could ever create something pretty. Granted - my math background is limited. Since I knew I would be an art major in college, I didn’t take all that calculus, trigonometry, etc. that my peers took in high school. I had a hard enough time with ninth grade algebra! I don’t think in numbers, I think in pictures. It gives my spouse (the financial guy) quite a laugh when I can’t remember if the population of a city is 4 million, or 400 million. It is just the difference of a couple zeros, right? So he coined the term “Math for Art Majors”.
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freelance inspiration motivation: alone freelance golden retriever home
by Barb
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home alone
When I started freelancing, one of the hardest things for me to get used to (besides the lack of a regular paycheck!) was no one to chat with around the water cooler. Those who know me know I am a very social creature, so I used to spend lots of time on the phone. Keep in mind this was before email, twitter (more on that later) and cell phones. Actually, I think my phone might have been plugged into the wall! (Prehistoric, I know!).
The solution came to me in an 85 lb., red, shaggy, 4-footed friend. He was a 2 year old golden retriever named Clyde. Clyde was perfectly content to listen to me rattle on about nothing. This started what would turn out to be a life-long love of dogs, especially Golden Retrievers. more »