I am Creative, Dedicated & Unique…
I am Krisna Marie
I love color and my designs reflect that. I keep up with trends but have the smarts not to be weighed down by them. Thus my designs have a unique perspective.
View My PorfolioI love color and my designs reflect that. I keep up with trends but have the smarts not to be weighed down by them. Thus my designs have a unique perspective.
View My PorfolioI currently live in the beautiful location of Bellingham, WA. I am, with a little luck and a good portfolio, going to study Design at Western Washington University. I also have a degree in Computer Software Support from Bellingham Technical College and a degree in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College, which incidentally, was where I was first exposed to HTML. Thus, my first, very tasteless, web design was born.
Later I started a long standing web page that showcased my collection of vintage sewing patterns. Life got in the way, I lost my domain name, my hosting account, and didn't even have a reliable computer—Kaye's Patterns, my site, was no-more. I did for a brief time have another website for sims 1 custom content but I didn' maintain it and eventually it was only an entry in the “Way Back Machine”.
In summary, this is my triumphant return to the web!
When not designing, playing The Sims, and watching Netflix I tutor a Basic Computer and Email workshop for an agency called NW CLIC (Stands for Northwest Computer Literacy Instructional Corps.) I also, in the past, have taught Word, Excel and PowerPoint for the same agency. Volunteering there has taught me that the digital-divide, both in terms of access and knowledge, is very real, and I want in my little way to be a small part of the solution.
I have been experimenting with web design since CSS, was barely a gleam in some genius's eye. WordPress, responsive design, and the ability to use SVG simply did not exist. Web design in that era was a logistical nightmare, and a result many sites were not very “pretty”. Admittedly my designs were also questionable at this time.
Step into the present the demands of good web design have changed, technologies and techniques have been improved. I am eternally grateful for these changes—they make the designer's job easier. I am not necessarily on the cutting edge of what can be done, especially on the technical end.
What I do have is a unique vision my designs don't look like everyone else, I keep up on trends enough to use them when they suit my purpose. I have enough smarts to know what to use, and what to avoid.
Some of the things I like in my designs are color, SVG graphics, which I tend to make myself, the ability to scale so it functions on a phone without being terribly boring, and web fonts.
I am not a mobile-first designer—I usually start my first design for a (16:9) monitor because that's what I have so I might as well take advantage of the room. Then I shrink my design down in a window on my computer and when an element no longer makes sense I use a media query to adjust it for that size—I may have several media queries in my code. I like my design to take advantage of space when it can but still have personality on small screens.