roar.

Not like I haven't always liked leopard and cheetah print...I have been even way more in to it lately. I LOVE that the new AIM comes with a leopard print option. Please enjoy some animal inspiration.

MS.

I thought I would share the process of creating my logo. When I first started making my logo, I researched other graphic designers logos. I started playing around with fonts and shapes and below are basically the various designs I went through to get to the final product. My logo is a vector tweaked to combine the "M" in a font called "Jane Austen" and the "S" in "Futura". I usually accompany other text with my logo in "Bell Gothic" or a similar sans-serif. You can see my logo and color choices on my website: www.meganschrier.com ! The image I tried to create was something "versatile" hard and soft, modern and classic etc. I think I acheived it with the two fonts I chose. Plus isn't the little upside-down heart it creates cute?? :)

Table of Contents.

How boring, right? Not necessarily... I usually overlook the table of contents in most magazines because when I look at magazines it is either to check out one specific thing or just to browse. While looking at the food network magazine recently I found this awesome table of contents:



I think it is very creative to have a photograph be the main subject for table of contents and in this case, each ornament has meaning for a recipe that is in each article of the TOC. Very cool.





Here are some other neat looking table contents I found in a google image search. It is difficult to get the full effect without seeing it up-close, but at least they look nifty from the size that you can see them!

let there be light.

Random. I decided to take some picture because I haven't in a while. They all came out pretty crappy because I didn't have great subjects, wasn't into it 100% and have been disappointed with my camera lately. However, some photos I took of a light bulb in one of my lamps came out kind of cool. Check it out:





So...it got me thinking about "light bulb art"...and these are some things I stumbled upon in my google image search:

Owl City.

Beyond the fact that I have been utterly obsessed with Owl City ever since I discovered them recently, I also am quite impressed with their website. I will admit, I haven't clicked around it much to make such a judgment. I have checked out the tour dates area...but it is really the "splash-page" that I think is the coolest. First of all "Fireflies" plays as you open the page - awesome song. Also, I love the airy feel and the little reindeer-like creatures floating across with things that fans have written in right from that page. I also think the little owl with the twitter status in the bubble are creative. All in all, I like it ;) Check it out: