<![CDATA[kaelie nielsen design  - Home]]>Thu, 24 May 2012 23:47:18 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Communication is Key]]>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:48:48 -0800http://www.kaenie.com/1/post/2012/03/communication-is-key.htmlI graduated in Communications and I still have issues being clear and getting all the information I need from clients. 
I was asked to design the following poster:
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They were approved and I sent the printable file right away.

Just one problem. 

Poster in my mind = 11x17
Poster in the client's mind? I think is still 11x17 but somewhere along the way – after I had sent them the file – they started calling it a flier. When I got the final prints, I was saddened to find gaping white space where it most definitely was not supposed to be. 

In the future, I will be sure to specifically ask for dimensions for print before sending the design. 
]]><![CDATA[The Book Exchange - a pyramid scheme, a chain letter AND a fun way to contact old friends and get new books]]>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:36:16 -0800http://www.kaenie.com/1/post/2012/03/bookexchange.htmlWould you be annoyed by the following letter? I'm hoping you say no. If you have, in fact, received it and wish to download 12 copies, then you are (thankfully) not bothered and you will find it below the scenarios. 
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"This is a book exchange. That's right, a book exchange! Send one new or lightly used book to the child listed as #1 below. Then send a copy of this 6 friends. Move my child's name to the #1 spot and list your child as #2 on your letter. Be sure to include your child's age or the reading age of books you want to receive if you have already more than enough for the age they are now.
This is a fun and inexpensive way to stock your child's library with books!  
Please be sure to include a blank copy of this letter to each of your friends. Meaning 12 copies in total. 6 filled out by you and 6 blank ones for all of your friends. You can also print this out at KaeNie.com – scroll to the post from 3.23.12. 
We’ve all sent chain mail back when we had our first email account, but now you can say you have participated in a pyramid scheme!
If you don’t want to do this, that’s totally ok, I just liked having a reason to send you snail mail, even if it is sort of a pyramid scheming chain letter... 
However, if you don’t do it, you will stub your toe. There, now it is officially a chain letter. "
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Yep. I totally made a YouTube reference in a graphic above, which explains the video itself to the left. 

I don't know why randomness makes me laugh so much, but it just does. 
]]><![CDATA[which one do you like better?]]>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:52:46 -0800http://www.kaenie.com/1/post/2012/03/i-really-like-to-work-with-the-client-to-get-a-finished-product.htmlfirst draft
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which do you like better?
]]><![CDATA[I saw this quote on Facebook and decided to design it]]>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:56:49 -0800http://www.kaenie.com/1/post/2012/02/i-saw-this-quote-on-facebook-and-really-liked-it.html
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Make a comment with your favorite quote, and maybe I will design it. Maybe. :)

If you're wondering where I got all the different wood textures, look no further than cgtextures.com - they were all free!
]]><![CDATA[I want this]]>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:34:48 -0800http://www.kaenie.com/1/post/2011/09/i-want-this.html
This is amazing. I'm going to take a second and speak my mind, so you'll have to excuse the jargon - it's the only way I can explain why I love this. 
Using a scanner is cheaper, but I like to have layers in my drawings, so I end up wasting tracing paper and doing multiple scans. Also, Illustrator isn't always the greatest at converting my sketches into vectors, no matter what settings I use in live trace. This will save me hours upon hours of time. I'm sold.
]]><![CDATA[Logos are so much easier to design when your client gives you the concept]]>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:34:08 -0800http://www.kaenie.com/1/post/2011/08/logos-are-so-much-easier-to-design-when-your-client-gives-you-the-concept.html
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Does the S look familiar to you? Yes? No?
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How about now? The client had the idea to use the f hole as an s. So smart! After that, everything else was easy. 
]]><![CDATA[A whole new realm of possiblities]]>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:26:49 -0800http://www.kaenie.com/1/post/2011/08/a-whole-new-realm-of-possiblities.htmlAs you know, I love weebly, but holy crap, my mind just exploded after watching this
I'm really interested in recreating my website with this. Weebly is great, but I had to redesign one of their templates. I haven't made a really eye-catching site because I really don't want to code, sometimes my brain crashes at the site of code. All this code talk is giving me queazy memories of that database development class I suffered through back in college. So let's not talk about code!

From what I understand, Muse is an extension of InDesign. No static code, just interactive, creative design. They have a trial version. Before I download it, I'm going to do a bunch of research and sketching to get a concrete idea of what I want my new site to look like. This is going to be fun and take time. Come back in a month – or maybe a year, and you'll see the transformation.
]]><![CDATA[Don't Forget the Sponsors]]>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:57:24 -0800http://www.kaenie.com/1/post/2011/06/dont-forget-the-sponsors.htmlEvery year the Sherwood Cultural Arts Commission hosts Movies in the Park. This year I was privileged enough to join the Commission.  I designed an ad for them with all the information, or so I thought. 
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Then I got an email back asking me to add the logos of the sponsors. I was worried I wouldn't be able to fit it in to this 2.125x3.5 ad, but I moved some things around and split things up so it now looks like this:
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Sometimes splitting things up can actually give you more room. 
]]><![CDATA[I used a design template... shame on me?]]>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:21:49 -0800http://www.kaenie.com/1/post/2011/06/robin-hood-festival.htmlAlex is always encouraging me to sell the things I make. I finally decided to get a booth and just do it. I'm making these nursing covers that can also be used as car seat covers to sell at the Robin Hood Festival. In order to cut down costs, I thought I could make a trade with them... a revamped website for booth space. They agreed to the trade.

Here's what their old site looks like:
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And this is what my website looks like:
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If you are a weebly frequenter or if you've read a certain previous post, you'll recognize the design as their template. Yes, I used someone else's design, yes it was hard to do, but here's my reasoning: If I had used my own images, it would have taken me much, much longer. It would have taken more time than I could afford. So I used their design, but still used my own skills with organizing content, choosing fonts, and creating headers. While the overall design is not mine, I can still take credit for the time spent figuring out which fonts and layouts would be best and what should go where. Web Design is fun, but I really enjoy print design much more as it is my strong suit. If someone is paying me to create a site, of course I'll use my own images. In this case, the pay only goes up to the price of the booth, so I needed to limit the time I spent creating the site. Oh, and don't worry, using a weebly template is com
]]><![CDATA[Invites]]>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:06:20 -0800http://www.kaenie.com/1/post/2011/04/invites.htmlMy brother-in-law is getting married to a wonderful girl from Iceland! Here are the invites I have been working on for them:
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