I wield the proverbial red pen to defend grammar, usage, spelling and house style, and again for a final check to make sure that your isn’t you’re.
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Custom document and layout options available to engage readers and allow your content to truly shine.
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Content development for a variety of business and technical documents that require a plain language enthusiast.
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Working from home is one of the best things about being a freelancer. It’s a privilege not many are afforded in traditional, corporate-type roles. A crucial part of setting up a work-from-home business is cultivating the ideal work space, but getting there can take some trial and error. One of my goals for 2018 was…
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Goodbye 2017, Hello 2018! Top Three Lessons Learned in 2017: You get what you put into it. I cannot expect things to simply fall in place because I’m willing it with my mind. Just like in data management, garbage in equals garbage out. If I don’t put in the effort required to achieve my goals, then…
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Adobe Illustrator and I are not the best of friends. I’ve tried nurturing our turbulent relationship over the past year and a half, but I just don’t think Illustrator is that into me—or is it the other way around? (I think this may be one of the only truths we can agree on.) My lofty…
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This Designer Spotlight belongs to a super cool cat named Sarah Alonso, another fellow SAIT classmate with a distinct artistic style and a keen eye for design who also happens to be a great listener.
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I originally created this banner for the church I attend, to be used on Mother’s Day as their main welcome media. They didn’t end up using it, but I love how the design turned out.
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A composite mash-up created in Adobe Illustrator using the outline of a majestic stag and various stock photos from unsplash.com. The intent was to play with textures and layering, and take advantage of the clipping mask option in Illustrator to create a whimsical composition.
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I recently had the privilege of creating a low poly rendering of a corgi for fellow designer Ricky Luu, to be put on a t-shirt as a gift for his friend (so this project is essentially for a friend of a friend).
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My next Designer Spotlight features another uber-talented local designer, Melanie Luther, a fellow SAIT classmate, freelance illustrator, and all-around awesome human (because dog lovers automatically gain mega points in awesomeness).
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Low-poly art is simultaneously invigorating and maddening. Focusing on finishing a piece is an accomplishment in and of itself; hours of meticulous, repetitive actions completed in a long chain. Really great tunes and a ton of coffee are definite requirements (for me, at least) to get through.
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The first Designer Spotlight of 2017 is reserved for my friend and fellow designer, Ricky Luu of illuustrations. As luck would have it, our paths would cross while we were both walking new (and uncertain) paths; we converged in what would become our home (classroom) for the 8-week fast-track graphic design certificate program at SAIT,…
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This is an assignment I completed for a course called Design & Authoring for Online Media as part of MRU’s Technical Writing certificate program. The first assignment was to complete a layout critique of two WordPress blog themes. The instructor gave us the option of writing this as a traditional assignment (i.e. essay format) or…
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Cindy K. Cheung 