ReneeD's blog

I often contemplate: Is their a difference between an artist and a designer?

Leveltens' latest monthly event took place at The Dallas Scaregrounds, a spooktacular event to say the least. Upon entering the Scaregrounds Leveltenies were surrounded by a festival of lights, food, games and all sorts of Halloween themed entertainment.

Repeat after me…“Form follows function.” “Form follows function.”

I will admit my ego and “creative” thinking does not always like to use this principle for design. But I will continue to fight through these growing pains by repeating and understanding this principle “Form follows function.” “Form follows function.”

The ICEDIP model created by Geoffrey Petty describes the creative process, contributing to many different aspects from creative writing to creative design. The ICEDIP model was developed to make best of the creative process.

Petty’s creative process has six phases. The first letter of each word spells out ICEDIP. This will help to remember each of the phases:

Inspiration-research and generate ideas
Clarification-focus on your goals
Evaluation-review your work and learn from it
Distillation-decide which of your ideas to work on
Incubation-leave the work alone

Pets are a huge part of our lives, research has shown that having pets in the workplace reduces stress and increases the feeling of well-being. It seems that more and more companies are allowing dogs in the office and LevelTen Interactive happens to be one of them.

SnagIt 9 helps Microsoft users to capture, organize and share high-quality screen shots for presentations, blogs and documents. I just downloaded the newest version and I have become absolutely obsessed with this little gadget.

What’s the Obsession with SnagIt?

SnagIt! If you can see it, you can snag it. Here are just a few of the many different ways that make it easy to capture your screenshots.

Well here it is my very first blog. My first thought, who came up with that name? My second thought, what in the world am I going to blog about? So I googled and googled in search of some ground breaking news to insure that my first blog would be inspiring. After a general consensus of internet searching, it occurred to me that I was not alone in my search for inspiration.