designerstuff

The continuous search for work

Hire Michelle

Yes, this illustration looks like it is my “style,” however, it is from madmenyourself.com.

I have been continuously fine-tuning and honing my essays and portfolio, and obsessing over my website. As the shoemaker’s children have no shoes—designers have the worst time doing their own websites.

While I have a static site up on both of the michellefrenchdesign domains, I still am in the early stages of a Flash portfolio that will replace one of these sites.

Like most of my fellow designers, I am conflicted about what to include or what to scrap.

And as the deadline for beginning the payback of my student loan looms ever nearer, the need for consistent gainful employment becomes a more pressing matter.

So, if you know anyone who needs a senior graphic designer or art director, who has been known to string together words in coherent sentences, be sure to give them my name.

It is all derivative

I found this wonderful animated film when searching for something else. It very successfully illustrates how artwork is built upon that which came before it.

It goes back to the statement of one of my undergrad professors who succinctly put it: “There is nothing new under the sun.”

The best we can do is a fresh interpretation.

Hello!

Does the world need another design blog?

This site is a practice site for me. I finally got proficient at DreamWeaver and now I have to figure this out, too.

I have some compulsion to challenge myself beyond any easy boundaries and learning to build a website using Wordpress is not different.

Designerstuff.net is a domain I have owned for about a decade. I was designing a line of designer office accoutrement and was in the early stages of collecting investors when the dotcom bubble popped. My investors were positive that since designers could no longer afford their Aeron Chairs, they probably wouldn’t invest in fancy-schmancy office supplies.

As I began using this domain as a way to learn to use blogging software to build a full website, I decided to start another blog.

Does the world need another design blog? Probably not. But I have been around long enough and have plenty of opinions on everything, so I have decided to use it as a blog.