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I have been chatting with a woman who does graphics design in Chicago - she works in an inhouse design department and also does freelance - and thanks to her and the Graphics Design Forum I have been shown a huge wealth of graphics design information easily available (for free or at a cost). Therefore I will continue self-teaching for now. After ( Read more... )

Ok, there are 12 courses in the program, each is going to cost about $1300 each, so if I factor in some money for textbooks I'm looking at borrowing about $18k. Probably less since they will likely let me opt out of two of the courses (basic computers and design basics). Not really a problem actually. It would require dedicating about 15 hours ( Read more... )

The rep at AIOnline pointed me to a diploma in design that she said might better suit me since I already have one diploma. She's hedging on letting me know tuition costs though. The gist is they want me to apply first so they can review my transcripts, to "see what credits can be transferred, which would affect the cost of what I still need to ( Read more... )

I spent most of my day today on Graphics Design Forum.

Other then that, my day is largely spent reading Creative Latitude, Before & After magazine, Designer Today, HOW Design magazine, Communication Arts magazine, Design & Creative bookshelf, Graphic Design blog, You the DesignerDaily sites are Core77 Design blog, Smashing Magazine, 456 Berea St ( Read more... )

So the other day at work I decided to redo my personal site. Except that the webftp would not co-operate. Nor would the java uploader. Or an ftp extension for firefox (employer's system was blocking ftp access), the shell account using Putty, or the one click install available in Dreamhost's control panel (I later checked my email at home and ( Read more... )

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Baby sick, with the flu I briefly had this week as well. He was up alllll last night tossing, turning, whining, and crying. Sneezing, coughing, low grade fever that went away with Tylenol. Took him into the hospital at 3am because by then he'd been carrying on for 4 hours which is not like him (not since he was medicated for reflux and dairy/soy ( Read more... )

I am stealing a few minutes, which I'll probably regret tomorrow when I have to get up early for work and running around. The only night this week we don't have plans is Wednesday, otherwise we're busy between visiting Toddler, running errands, and doing PRIDE. I have a mountain of cleaning to do especially since soon he will be coming here to ( Read more... )

So work was good, but everything else sucked. It took me 2 hours to get home, between 4 buses including one we had to get off because it needed repair, slipping repeatedly, falling down once while carrying baby and effectively faceplanting both of us in the snow thanks to some ASSHATS who don't bother to clear or salt their iced sidewalk, and ( Read more... )