I’m currently rebuilding my website. Right now I basically just have a page where you can download my portfolio. I’m having a problem with how to brand myself. As a freelancer is it better to brand yourself by name such as Candis Hecking Designs or…

I’m going to repost this cause I’m still searching for a company! ————————————————————————–I’m currently looking for a local printer that can print short runs for an ongoing project. I need notecards and flat cards printed in quantities around 20. If anyone knows of a good…

There were 1,800 new commercial typefaces in 2006. I’m not posting this a year late, they were just announced on July 11th. Due to the number of fonts to choose from the list came out a little late. Check out the 23 winners here. I…

I recently started writing another blog on Cleveland.com. This blog is going to be similar to the other two blogs I have but I’m going to focus on the Northeast Ohio area. I want to showcase and promote local artists and crafters here. Stop by…

Did you know that an all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts? I had no idea. Blackle is Google with a black background. Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. Read…

This weekend we took a trip to Montreal, Canada. While we were there we saw the Bruce Nauman exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum. Most of the exhibit displayed the Neon Work from Nauman. Overall it was an interesting exhibit. Above is the 100 fish…

I recently completed some pro bono work for Habitat for Humanity. It’s great when you have time to do stuff like this. I really enjoyed helping them out. Above is an image of the newsletter I put together for Habitat. During this project I worked…

I thought this was good. I found it on one of my daily blog reads Ubiki.

Many of us are familiar with Skype. Without a landline phone in our house, my husband and I try to use Skype as often as we can to keep our cell phone bill down. My office is also using Skype on occasion. Well now you…

I think there are very few people that can make a living from their blog. I doubt I will ever be in that position, but it would be nice. There was an article in USA today about people who have successfully turned their blog from…