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From Traditional to Digital Planners
I’ve always had a planner since I can remember. I love writing and capturing little moments on them and I cherish all of them. But lately, life has become too hectic and I find myself moving from one place to another I got tired of carrying notebooks, pens, colors, watercolors, art paper, pencils, laptop, headphones,…
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Design Principles
A simple summary for the everyday designer. There are four universal principles, depending on how you use them you might get different results, but when going to the root of each I found these are at the heart of them.
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When we missed our trains to Hamburg
The time we lost our connection to Germany.
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Revolución de Genero
Grité por mi, por mi mamá que no se anima a unirse a esto, por mis amigas machistas, por mis amigas feministas que no pudieron ir, por las que no conozco que fueron asesinadas, por mis futuros hijos o hijas. Por las que tienen miedo de alzar la voz, por las que no pueden, por tus hijas, por tu hermana, por todas las mujeres del mundo.
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Wild flowers inspiration
While on our hike to the top I started taking photos of the beautiful wild flowers and decided to paint them when we got back.
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Holiday Project
This season I decided to give a handmade gift to my friends and family. I made some watercolor poinsettias to keep the theme inside the holiday spirits. At first my idea was to make bookmarks, since I’ve been practicing clouds on those. But Dirk mentioned that they would look good on the Christmas tree as…
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¿Por qué estamos como estamos?
“No intentes entender a México desde la razón, tendrás más suerte desde lo absurdo, México es el país más surrealista del mundo” – André Breton
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UI proposal for Spotify
Have you ever been abroad maybe as an exchange student or a business person traveling for more than 14 days? Then you know how much Spotify hates you. You are listening to your playlists and then Spotify logs you out of your device. You can’t sing in. You don’t even know why. And then you…
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I’ve never felt more safe in my life
At the end of October I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Singapore for work. I was very excited because it had been 9 years since I was in Asia for the first time.
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Welcome to my personal blog. In this little part of the web, I share my journey and adventures. You can expect to see my watercolor learning process, my thoughts on design, and sometimes if I have the time a summary of books that I love. I believe that sharing our experiences online is a very…
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Frank Chimero
Kakeibo: Become mindful of your budget.
Kakeibo (家計簿) translates to Household account book. It’s a Japanese method of keeping track of your budget while becoming more mindful of how you spend it. First, some history. After the second world war, woman’s education was a controversial topic. The Meiji government had adopted the idea of a male-centered authoritarian family system. The philosophy…
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How I’m self-studying Japanese
If you want to start the adventure of self studying Japanese, keep reading. Let me start by saying that the most important thing is to actually want to learn. It doesn’t matter if you have the best resources, if you don’t put the effort it wont work. Here I’ll share with you the resources I…
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Random thoughts
I’ve been wanting to blog often. I really have, but I find the search for words energy draining. Sometimes I feel like what I have to say to the world might not even be important, but it holds so much significance to me. So why do I hesitate? Why is it so hard to start? Have you ever felt this way? Maybe not specifically about blogging, but maybe you want to enroll in a class, start reading 15 minutes every morning, or take a run on your neighborhood. But why do we spend so much time thinking, and not doing?
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Por último, sólo me queda decir: ¡VIVA MÉXICO!
En marzo del 2018 llego una señorita vestida con el uniforme del INE buscándome porque me tocó ser funcionara de casilla en las elecciones 2018. Mi abuelita rápidamente le dijo: “No, aquí no está”. Ella asumió que no me interesaba. Por suerte, ese mismo día acababa de llegar de Guadalajara y a la señorita se le olvido pedir que firmaran comprobando que no estaba. Así que cuando yo llegue del aeropuerto, estaba otra vez en la puerta a lo que se sorprendió que le dije, “Si quiero participar”. Súper contenta me explico unas cosas rápidas y programamos mi capacitación.
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A designer’s research manual by O’Grady
A designer’s research manual by Visocky O´Grady, Jenn Grady, Ken Grady has been a game-changing book for me. This book will teach you everything you need to know about researching for design purposes. I enjoyed it very much and did my own little summary to remember what was most important to me. I mixed some techniques, saying I made a new research process would be too naive so I won’t do that. However, I did summarize the contents in a way that makes sense to me and made a research process that works for me. If it works for you too then yay and high-five. I made some graphics to illustrate this process, of course, inspired/based on the illustrations from the book.
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Melissa Gutiérrez 