I am working on a website design that has to look “Web 2.0″. To add a modern design element I used a diagonal pattern as part of the background.

Here is a tutorial on how to create this pattern in Photoshop: tutorialized.com

A friend just sent me a link to this fantastic website called Design for the World.

“Design for the World is an international humanitarian organisation whose objective is to match the skills and commitment of volunteer designers with the needs expressed by disadvantaged populations and the organisations that serve them worldwide. Design for the World unites graphic designers, industrial designers and interior and architectural designers around one common idea: voluntary design for people in need.”

Read more on: www.designfortheworld.org

“Video does not scale up in size very well as it is relatively low resolution to begin with.

Imagine that you are editing together some footage from your last great adventure, shot with your DV camera. You find some perfect footage at iStock to compliment your shots. In this case, you want to download NTSC or PAL (depending on what you shot your material in).

If you find HD content that fits your story better, just crop and scale it down – it will still look great. However, downloading a Big Web version and scaling it up will create a scene in your project that will look well, wrong. It will be fuzzy with muted colours, and possibly distorted as well. Small and Big Web look great…on the Web.”

Source: iStockphoto tip of the week

Way back when - about two decades ago - when I didn’t know yet “what I wanted to be when I grow up”, I read about Agatha Ruiz de la Prada - a crazy creative fashion designer from Barcelona, Spain. I started to get obsessed with her style, passion and creativity, loved all of her funky “almost costumy” designs and wanted to become a fashion designer just like her. One thing lead to another and I started applying to fashion schools across the globe until I eventually got accepted and started attending Modeschule Hetzendorf in Vienna, Austria.

My path ended up leading me to CCA in San Francisco where I studied Graphic Design and then to an 8 year career as a Software Designer at Microsoft. Now, almost 20 years later, I am coming back full circle to fashion design and started VVNH / .. with my business partner Viviane Veraguth.

Viviane sent me a link to this site a few days ago and it made me smile. How much has happened since then and yet, my passion for fashion remains the same.

Check out her official website
And her online store