I want to tell my story. It’s about how, up until 2 years ago, I never felt productive in my work. It went something like this: It’s a Friday or Saturday night and I have some free time to work on personal or freelance projects and I wouldn’t know what to start on. Or I […]
$5 logo from Von Glitschka!
Once upon a time, this very popular illustrator/designer named Von Glitschka created a website to sell logos for $5. The kicker is that he would only spend 5 minutes on each one and there would be no revisions allowed. It was done out of frustration from what he calls ‘cheap a** clients’. However, for fans […]
2012 Year in Review
Personally Officially became free of all credit card debt while paying off 4 large debts using the debt snowball idea from Dave Ramsey Completed numerous house projects – renovated kitchen, refinished shed, shutters, doors, etc. Photography Learned many new post-processing techniques to use while processing my photographs. Check out my photos here! Became an exclusive […]
StephenEmlund.com through the years
It’s been almost 6 years since I originally launched StephenEmlund.com. This October, I redesigned my website for the first time ever. I have been surprised how well my website has held up to all the design trends in the last 6 years. Of course, it’s because I made the website very minimalistic. Although orange was […]
Nelson-Atkins Museum
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Ruby Tuesday’s missed opportunity
Recently I tweeted about Ruby Tuesday and expressed my dissatisfaction for the service I received. For a company this large not to have a presence on twitter is a missed opportunity. Companies large and small should be using search.twitter.com to crawl twitter for mentions about their business. When someone is dissatisfied about their product or […]
Samsung Acclaim – my new phone
It’s no iPhone, but it’s still pretty awesome. Of course, my last phone was a flip phone with absolutely no internet access. This is the first phone US Cellular is selling that has Google’s new Android OS. Being from Google, it integrates really well with any of your google accounts – gmail, youtube, voice, talk, […]
After ‘The Thunderer’
I’ve been listening to some old music that I performed in various bands in high school and college and came across this one. [media id=2 width=390 height=20] It was performed in 2003 at the MO-IL Bi-State Band with Lt. Col. Lowell Graham directing the band. He was the former Air Force Band director. This song […]
My thoughts on design to be published
I got an email today from someone named Armin Vit. I was hovering over ‘mark as spam’ until I read the subject line. Brand New Mystery Product Now, for some reason this caught my attention as not being exactly spam (don’t ask me why). So I opened it. If I have contacted you it means […]