by Libby | Aug 15, 2021 | Design
And The What Happened? A card deck for design researchers, design teams or for business At the end of 2018 I embarked on a Master of Design Futures at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). I remember at the time feeling restless about my role and my future...
by Libby | Aug 5, 2017 | Musing
For those that know me well, they know I am somewhat obsessed with creating repeating patterns. There is nothing like the feeling you get when that first design actually repeats as you intended. That achievement drives you forward to more variety and complexity in...
by Libby | Jun 18, 2017 | Design
This is my latest pattern collection called Chisai, which means small in Japanese. It started as a challenge I set for myself to create an entire collection of small prints and a thought of wouldn’t it be cool to make a quilt completely out of fabrics designed...
by Libby | May 12, 2017 | Design
My logo is a stamp I made in shodo (calligraphy) class when I was in high school in Japan. I found a couple of them recently and started stamping in my sketchbook. At the time I remember thinking this would make a cool logo with no idea where I would use it. Of course...
by Libby | Apr 28, 2017 | Design
I have a day job as a user experience (UX) consultant for a digital agency. Mostly when I tell people what I do they look perplexed. This is understandable. As careers go UX is relatively new, although it’s been around for quite some time as human factors, human...