self-made

The Google Earth drawing game

Hope

25 pandas all over Montreal city, October 2008, before moving permanently to NYC. An action to say: good-bye Montreal, à bientôt! Merci beacoup! Je t’aime.

A work in progress as so many work in progress I’ve made out there. Open piece. To be continued…

Wheat Paste recipe by other in my kitchen, he showed me.

In dish washing detergent bottle:
flower 2/3
hot hot water
sugar (1/3)
shake like you’ve never shaken it before
add honey, it will make your posters stick for a decade

shake baby, shake more!

you’re set, go!

Carnet de voyage/UK

Free Learning

Here are some links for free learning:

interaction design schooling:

http://www.ixda.org/

http://patterntap.com./

http://www.guuui.com/issues/02_07.php

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/

http://www.echointeraction.com.au/principles.htm

http://flowingdata.com/

web design free school, just needs your creativity and being smart helps:

http://webdesignfromscratch.com/

http://pingmag.jp

http://www.designrelated.com/

http://stopdesign.com/also

typography is the basis:

http://ilovetypography.com/about/

http://webtypography.net/

http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/03/02/30-best-font-downloads-for-designers/

http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/001168.html

now a free class, watch and learn:

http://www.slideshare.net/blackbeltjones/designing-for-spacetime-ixda08

Le syndrôme de la page blanche, quoi

Bonjour, salut, hi, kifak?

I’m a designer. Well a self made designer thanks to Google, Creative Commons, bref the Web. My background is in art: visual arts, beaux-arts, video art, performance art, cyber art, robotic, new media installation, drawings and dreaming and conceptual art, and all that is invisible and real. After spending way too much time in art school, in 2003 I found myself needing to survive. Reality check. Coming from this creative background since I was a little girl, and being a child of the internet, I tried to find myself a job as a designer. Knowing how to use the tools, but having no concept on layout, grids, or typography, I made a deconstructed portfolio still very much anchored in wild art conceptual, deconstructed dada absurdity that I love so much. A genuine sense of humor is key for survival on this planet. I presented myself in respectable corporate design companies in Montreal, and managed to get myself a job as a free-lancer in design. Google as my How-to guide, I managed, I learned.

Free learning mixed with life learning shaped me into what I am now: an Interaction Designer in New York. I made videos both for web and cinema, and made websites, and created online games, all that I will talk about in this blog. I am a self made. I am made in http. I am proud that I learned from online sources.

Creativity is key to survive. Combine it with humility, and the ability to learn and you can overcome the cynics, the nihilists and your mother.

This is my journey in this world, as a self made.