Happy Friday!

A Happy Friday for anyone who reads this today (or anyone who reads this on a Friday :))

This is just a filler post, I received my exam results and I’m afraid I didn’t pass, I passed the written portion of the exam, I just  made mistakes during the interview. So I’ll probably still do a post on the exam focused more on the written portion, and the mistakes I made so anyone else taking the RGD Exam doesn’t make the same ones I did.

Lets move on to this filler post. I just wanted to go over the projects I’m working on right now and leave you with some useful links that I’ve found wandering around design communities.

A little bit on what I’ve been up to…

I have some of my illustrations on stock sites now and am working on fleshing out a few more ideas. I haven’t been focusing on this as much in the last couple weeks since I have some higher priority projects on my plate.

Speaking of illustration, I’m working on an illustrated T-Shirt design at Threadless.com It’s currently up for critique and I’m working on some of the recommendations. I’ve been very pleased with the type of constructive criticism you get back, people offer suggestions and manage to never offend when they pick apart your work. I’m going to take some time this weekend to work on their recommendations and post V2 on Sunday.

A big thing started in the last week or so. I’ve started on my first freelance project. As I’ve said before I much prefer working as an in-house designer but, an offer came up that was hard to refuse. I can’t discuss the project at all it’s in prototype phase but it’s definitely a project to keep me out of trouble.

I’m actually getting a few freelance offers out of my network lately, I guess it makes the hit from failing the exam a little softer. It’s amazing the contacts you find through LinkedIn and Facebook.

Outside of all that I’m slowly planning out a refresh for my website. I think I know where I’m going with it I just have some writing and building ahead of me. The next reiteration of it is going to be big.

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And here’s a list of some useful articles and blogs I’ve found recently in no particular order: