alan crissey / graphic designer » Freelancing http://www.alancrissey.com A graphic designer in the Atlanta area, discussing anything and everything creative. Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:00:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 New Business Cards http://www.alancrissey.com/archives/390 http://www.alancrissey.com/archives/390#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:49:20 +0000 Alan http://www.alancrissey.com/?p=390 I have just gotten my own personal business cards printed. I had a bit of an ordeal finding a good printer that would print them at a reasonable price, but I found one – Printing Plus in Roswell. They did a great job.

The cards I designed are very simple, but I just wanted something eye catching that had some contact information. They only have my phone number, email address and website address on them. I left the living address off because I don’t want them to be made useless if I move, and I didn’t find having it on there to be necessary. I have posted some pictures below. Let me know what you think.

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]]> http://www.alancrissey.com/archives/390/feed 4 A New Year, A New Beginning http://www.alancrissey.com/archives/297 http://www.alancrissey.com/archives/297#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:14:50 +0000 Alan http://www.alancrissey.com/?p=297 Yes it’s cliché, but in this case, there is no other way to say it.

We all have something new that we vow to do for the new year. For some it’s to exercise more. Others may decide to start flossing. I decided it was time to leave my job of four years at an ad agency to freelance full time.

It may seem like a crazy decision. The economy isn’t doing so great and people are being laid off. But I felt that I needed to spread my wings a little bit. Freelancing is a challenge, but I feel up to it. I’ve got some new tools under my belt and some exciting projects coming up. And there’s nothing like working from home. This has been a dream of mine for a while, and I’m confident that I can make it work.

If you’ve been here before, you may have noticed that I’ve revamped the site, hopefully for the better. It started off as an experiment, inspired by Jason Santa Maria, who is promoting the idea of treating dynamic web content more like printed media. This is tough to do. Designing for the web has its own set of challenges that make this a lot harder than it sounds. I had a lot of other ideas that I’ve had to scrap for technical reasons and time constraints, and I may gradually add some of them. But I had to say enough was enough, and go ahead with the launch.

You might be wondering why this is necessary. The truth is that print, especially magazines and newspapers, are in the middle of a mass migration to the web. This is being accelerated by the current economy. So the challenge for us designers is to learn how to make this transition, and make it a good one.

Like I said, this site is a bit of an experiment. I’ve used some techniques that I’ve never used before, and it may not display correctly in Internet Explorer. I haven’t had a chance to test it yet. But the techniques and framework that I’ve implemented should allow me to create posts and pages that aren’t stuck in the traditional ‘post in left column, static links in right column’ layout. I can be a little more creative with the layout of my posts. So we’ll see where this goes.

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