Last Nerve Touched

There has always been something in me that likes to create. Design. Assemble. Then take a couple steps back and admire.

Then move on to the next project and do the same. Only different.

I like to come up with unique designs. Which can be challenging when you like to look, conceptualize and "this-is-how-I-would've-done-it" imagine other people's creations.

I've had the pleasure of creating numerous designs from my beginnings doing a wholesale children's clothing magazine, billboards, t-shirts, an entire line of vitamin labels (really), more newspaper and magazine ads, not to mention logos, than I can count to my crown jewels of being published in two national magazines. Each and every one I've loved doing. It's fun to me. Actually a stress reliever of sorts when I get to "create". It's definitely a passion of mine and has been for as long as I can remember.

An ex-boss of mine once told me, "Terri...it's just part of who you are. You 'artsy' people are temperamental about your work. I get it." And thankfully he appreciated it.

So when I work hard at a design (and I DO realize people who don't do this for a living don't get how much time it takes, both in front of the computer and going over it again and again in your head throughout the days and even weeks), I tend to get a tad bit bent out of shape when "my" design is...well...compromised.

Example: A logo. Please don't stretch it. Hold the "shift" key down when you must resize it so it holds its scale. And don't try and "match" the font...because you can't. It's not a font. I know. I know. It looks like it. But believe me...it's a graphic. Each letter that makes up the word(s) is actually an image in-and-of itself. Unique. Unreproducible.

Am I sensitive about this? Maybe. (okay, obviously yes)

Will you hear from me if you don't keep the consistency of your business's brand that I helped create?

NO DOUBT. And one day you'll thank me.

Just had to say that.

I feel better now. Carry on...