The following presentation was created as a way of teaching faculty and staff best practices on utilizing design principles and public speaking skills to spare audiences from Death by PowerPoint. Nan Peck and I were invited to present Death by PowerPoint at the VCCS New...
The effectiveness of lessons on the technical aspects of design software for non-designers is often negated by the fact that few have had access to basic lessons on design principles. Given that this knowledge is the critical difference between a poor piece and an effective...
Visit my blog, a space dedicated to the mastery of a good dish. For a good while now, I’ve been transferring my favorite recipes that I’ve invented into the equivalent of a cooking diary. Best of all, I get to showcase some fun with photography...
While I was working on video tutorials for the STARTALK team on how to add content to our drupal site, I ended up doing a demo tutorial on Wordle. If you haven't checked out Wordle yet, it's a slick web program that takes bodies of...
Why do you hate me so much? I know I didn’t grow up with you, so I’ve developed no means of guarding my stomach against the trouble that you’re known to cause an intestine or two. I can understand why you are an...
In rummaging through the stores of goodness she's kept on her hard drive, your host came across a veritable treasure trove of sweet designs from back in the day. Or as her sister has put it, evidence that we've always been hilarious....
The joy of getting married multiple times (to the same person, of course) is that you have tons of opportunities to design the goods needed to notify the world of the nuptials. Here are tastes from two of my three ceremonies, the Central Park...
Website for NOVASTARTALK, a federally-funded initiative that strives to increase the number of people speaking critical-need langauges (such as Chinese and Arabic)....