About the Designer
It was both never and always my goal to be a designer. Graphic design is what I am getting a degree in, but I can’t help myself when it comes to designing the world I want to be in. You can often find me sketching a fun chair I think I’d be more comfortable in, or maybe an idea for a notes app for people with a similar brain to mine. I have grown to love using design to help people, but also to help myself by working out emotions, problems, or by just playing around.
You will often see a similar vibe to most of my work. I love creating something that is easily readable, emulating classic design styles from movements of the past. I also love web fonts, I mean, I literally lived in Georgia! I find a lot of inspiration from those times. Times where we were forced to be more creative from the lack of freedom of the tech we have today.
That’s where my project comes into the picture. You’ll see this admiration for older print design mixed with motifs of memories and some tiebacks to some things from my childhood. The Better Lessons Go Unsaid is ultimately a project I made to help myself. I wanted to get more connected with my younger self again, as a way of getting closer with family, friends, and really my current self. I needed something driven by emotion to pull me back into my love of graphic design. It’s a simple project, but that was done with intention. A lot of the design, writing style and content, and materials all tie back to my mom, a writer and the person I learned my love of creativity from. The entire idea of the project came from my childhood home office, where my mom had some quotes printed out on the same type of transparency sheets that I use in my project. They were always something that stuck with me, and I knew there was more to learn from those quotes, from her, and from little me who saw them in that safe little office.
