Kate Robinson Interactive Design

Last year I started a project called “Daily Picture of Happiness”.  The goal being to take a picture of each day of something that made me happy. It didn’t have to be a great photo, lord knows there are some bad photos in there, but it did need to be a photo of something that [...]

I’m happy to announce that the new website for Vascular Access Specialists, www.vascularaccessspecialists.com has been launched. I was responsible for the site design and collaborated with an excellent copywriter and amazing programmer to bring the entire site together. VAS came to us looking for a website that was easy for their audience to use, showed [...]

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, MTV Music has put their entire collection of music videos online. You can watch anything from New Order’s Blue Monday to Danzig’s Mother. For those of us who grew up in the 80s and 90s its like heaven.

My husband and I continued our journey into the world of classical music by going to the fall ballet, Ballets of Our Time, performed by the IU Ballet Theater. It was the first ballet for both of us, if you don’t count the ballet recitals I had to preform in when I was 8, and [...]

A few weeks ago, in our continuing quest to broaden our horizons, my husband I went to the opera. We saw La Traviata, part of the 2008/2009 IU Opera season. The performance was quite good–quality singing, beautiful music, sumptuous sets and costumes. And as it turns out, La Traviata is the opera in Pretty Women, [...]

I’m not typically a huge fan of Banksy, but I think this latest work of his is both incredibly interesting and very fun. Here’s what Bansky had to say about his newest exhibit. “New Yorkers don’t care about art, they care about pets. So I’m exhibiting them instead. I wanted to make art that questioned [...]

So lately I’ve been thinking about the art of communicating effectively and what all it entails. Is it something that you’re born with, can it be learned, will some people just never get the hang of it? Now as a designer I think about this issue more than the average person—effective communication is my job [...]

I came across this article by Andy Rutledge today and it really made me stop and think. My Precious discusses how designers can become corrupted by our adherence to our ideas, designs and opinions. What I really enjoyed about this article is that the author provides steps to help guide you through the design process [...]

I’ve finally written my first blog post. Granted, it’s not about anything in particular, but you’ve got to start somewhere, right? So if you’re ready for an adventure check back often and I promise to keep the posts interesting from here on out.