10 reasons to keep designing
Designers don’t have to burn out! In the six years since I began this design business, I’ve come across a lot of reasons to quit designing. People burn out for lots of reasons: designer’s block, long hours, lack of clients, too many clients, and of course – client-zillas. That being said, I’m still in love with the design process and find new and refreshing reasons to keep working long into the night. I’ve come up with why I choose to continue, and hopefully this list will give you some insight into the design world and some inspiration to continue...
read moreCommander’s Coin Design
In the military, high ranking officers and enlisted frequently have challenge coins made, which they give to soldiers who have gone above and beyond their duties. It’s an unofficial way to say thanks for a job well done. During my deployment to Kosovo, I redesigned three of those coins for the highest ranking soldiers of the Battle Group: the commander, the deputy commander, and the command sergeant major. The prior coins weren’t up to snuff, so I was approached to make better ones. General Design Flow: I receive the brief Initial sketches and designs are...
read moreBook Cover for Albanian Linguist
A good friend, who I met while he was working as a translator for NATO, approached me to design his father’s book cover. His father, Xhavit Kryeziu, helped solidify disparate Albanian dialects into a singular, standardized language in the 1960′s and 70′s, and his most recent book is a collection of articles he wrote from that time period. Through his son, Professor Kryeziu communicated his love of the written word, and asked me to design a cover that showed the beauty of his homeland of Kosovo and the elegance of the Albanian language that is spoken there by a large...
read moreKosovo Forces Monument Design
I’ve had the opportunity to design & construct a lot of off-the-wall projects, but most have been for friends, family or fellow “creative” types. Very rarely do designers get free reign of a government project, especially when the military is involved. That’s why this monument project, designed for the U.S. Army and Kosovo Forces, was such a blast to work on! I spent most of 2011 deployed to Kosovo with NATO as a photojournalist and print designer. During my tenure there as print non-commissioned officer for Kosovo Forces 14, I was asked to design a final...
read moreArchived elDesigner Website
One of the first websites I built, my own page was designed from scratch so that I could familiarize myself with all of the aspects of creating for the internet and portable digital media.
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