MarCom Graphics

The Marcom graphics team is in the middle of a great adjustment. We’ve lost Teri, our awesome publication manager and have absorbed her position.  The added unknowns and stress has started to wear on my creativity. I find my “creativity tank” to be running on empty while I’m tasked with one of the most exciting projects I’ve had since I’ve been here. The slick 12 page 21st Century Learning Campaign Brochure for the Foundation.

I talked to my sister Sara, senior graphic designer for South Sound Magazine, this last weekend about what she does when creativity escapes her. What she told me gave me a whole new outlook on my day to day life. She told me to mix it up. Don’t get stuck in a routine. Don’t go the same way to and from work everyday. Don’t let every week look the same as the last. Keep your brain working. I realized how stuck in a rut I was. I have 3 or 4 day templates that I play out every week depending on what I need to get done. I’m going to do my best to throw those out the window and try something different even if it’s as simple as trying a new way home from work.

That’s my plan. What you do to keep your mind fresh and creativity flowing?

Through the web redesign process Andrew, our fearless webmaster, shared with us the recent trend in fantastically designed footers on webpages. It never really occurred to me to put more than the copywrite info and possibly some links below the main content of a website. Now I’m all about the footers. They can be used to keep the visitor on the site longer, aid in Search Engine Optimization and just plain add to the overall design of the site. Check out the link below to view a showcase of some fantastic footers.

A Showcase of Fantastic Footer Designs

60+ Design Tutorials and Inspirational Resources

I came across this post yesterday and instantly bookmarked it. There are so many great design tutorials and inspirational resources that I may just pee a little. I don’t know what designers did back in the days before the internet. Now whenever I hit a creative road block I’m off to the net to kick my creativity back in gear. There is so much great stuff out there and so little time to learn it all!

These are amazing!

38 Marvellous Graffiti Art and Street Art that will blow you away

Piercification \pierce -if-ick-ation\ adj.

To Piercify. To make a print or web project look like it came from Pierce College. Pierce College looks like yellow, orange, marroon, red, and green pixel block clusters, paired with bars separated by maroon lines.

Like to see it in a sentence?

Our chosen web mockup is currently going through Piercification.