My favorite thing to design are LOGOS!

I love to design logos. They are a very rewarding form on graphic design in my opinion. I am the one that creates your company's brand. That's pretty powerful and can be pretty stressful. Nothing makes me feel better than a client saying how wonderful my design is, or, "Yipeee! Yipeee! Yipee! PERFECT!!"

- actual words from latest logo design client.

Of course, it makes me feel even better when that client says, "Your check is in the mail!"

A company's branding is serious business. It's as serious as designing tattoos for people. And yes, I do that too!!

So, if you are thinking of starting up a business and you need a logo, think about your company and the image you want to put out there ...

... and then HIRE ME!

This is my latest design. Enjoy!

I love fonts, I mean typestyles

Fonts turn me on. Is that weird? Some people say it is. Some people see the glazed over look I get when I talk about serifs, ascenders, descenders, and all the unique curves of different fonts ... and they think I'm nuts.

Okay, I am nuts, but fonts are important to me. I am a graphic designer after all.

Recently, I learned that "font" is not the correct word to use. There is a big difference between a font and a typestyle. I love them all, so it was interesting to learn.

According to our good, always accurate, friend, Wikipedia, the difference is:

"The distinction between font and typeface is that a font designates a specific member of a type family such as roman, boldface, or italic type, while typeface designates a consistent visual appearance or style which can be a "family" or related set of fonts. For example, a given typeface such as Arial may include roman, bold, and italic fonts."

Wow ... I bet that you didn't know that.

I appreciate the type designers that have the wonderful job of creating all these cool typestyles to use, even if I download only the free ones.

So ... now that you know a little about me and my love of typestyles, you can see why this pic makes me giggle!

My intro

So, here I am. I created this pretty blog ... happy with the name, my picture, my "about me" section. Everything is done. ... well, now I need to actually blog about something!! I am intimidated by blogging. I'm not sure why, because it looks easy when others do it. I'm very impressed with the pictures, the links, the witty stories and the randomness.

So, let's get to it!

I am Angela Johnson. I am a freelance graphic designer and an abstract painter. I have created this blog to talk about my inspirations, thoughts, ideas - based on graphic design and painting. Of course, I reserved the right to talk about anything random that pops in my head. I am a very random person. I keep you guessing.

I like peanut butter.

I created this blog also to get my name out there in a different avenue I've yet to explore. People FOLLOW your blog!!! How exciting. It is my mission to get my name known.

I started up my freelance graphic design business in January. It's been a very slow process, all the while keeping my day job. I've had my exciting "I got a new client!" days and I've had my depressing "Why am I even bothering?" days. Those suck! I'm learning as I go. I ask questions. I take classes. I network. I facebook.

So the good news is my business has grown!! I had 0 clients in January! No where to go but up!

I urge you to follow my blog. It will make my day. If you have advice or thoughts to share, please share away! Tell me what I should blog about!!

But for now ... I think this is a good start!

Thanks for stopping by.

angela