Megan King

Life by design

Posts in Design
Balance

When it comes to design, visual weight is distributed either vertically or horizontally to achieve balance. Imagine if your design were a three-dimensional object — if you have distributed its weight properly then it can manage to stand on its own. Designers are trained to use elements such as line, texture, color, and form in their creations to render stability. Symmetry creates order…

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Packaging Trends

Overall, the packaging world is insanity, when did we become a culture of more is more? This photo is the aftermath of attending the Chicago Sweets & Snacks Expo today and it is a noisy mess. I keep focusing on the Million Dollar Chocolate Bar because: money. There aren't many days in the month that I am weak enough to indulge in that much chocolate, but I highly doubt it tastes like a million bucks…

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Existential Design Thoughts

I am a designer and constantly reevaluating what my niche is. Maybe it is the naive child in me, but I still believe that one can design their own career based on the crossover between their passions. I had a realization that designing for pharmaceutical companies isn't exactly why I went to art school. But, when I am designing something that I love, my life is a little closer to perfect…

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Crowdsourcing

Today is the day every creative hopes to never face, like every other person in the world, I am passionate about what I do for a living! Yeah 'kay, but when I DO get excited about a project it is easy to spend every minute of my day nurturing it, putting all other deadlines on the back burner and going too far down that rabbit-hole of possibilities. There aren’t too many professions where you get to make things that you really love…

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