Way back at the beginning of posting the Libraries Are For Everyone campaign, a librarian reached out and asked if I could help make round button templates. I utterly failed to make decent templates for her in time (sorry about that!), but I finally did get some made – and then promptly forgot about them.
A number of various things triggered my memory of them, and so now I’ll share them with you! Enjoy!!!
If you’re a librarian in the U.S. right now, things have been alarming if not downright dangerous for us and our patrons. And when I feel overwhelmed with emotions, many times it is art that helps me process them. This time, I still feel just as upset as when I began this design. And so…
After over a year of excitement awaiting what the “new art process” for the CSLP would yield, I was disappointed (to say the very least). That’s all I’ll say about that. So back to the literal drawing board I went! I must give a HUGE shout-out to both Angie and Bryce for brainstorming ideas to…
This translation comes courtesy of Jennifer, Georgia, and a native Oromo speaking student at Rondo Community Outreach Library in Saint Paul, MN. Thank you all for working together to send me this Afaan Oromo translation!!!
Two years ago I first shared with y’all our Kitty Café event. Now that we’ve had our third annual event, it’s time to revisit this program and share updates. Here’s this year’s video: General Updates: It is still my favorite event of the year. It helps that I’m a cat person. If you’re not a…
Over the years I have created quite a few library logo mashups – many I forgot to share on Hafuboti. Well, I forget no more! With some bonus high-res versions! Having learned how to use Affinity Designer (think cheaper, but just-as-great Adobe Illustrator), I can now create mashups at lightning speeds! Well, maybe not that…
<em><strong>Warning:</strong> I’m going to go on a lengthy-for-me philosophical post in terms of the motivation for the displays that we do at our libraries. This is unusual for me, but thought it worthy enough to bring up here – and thought that others might want to think about this and/or share their thoughts. It began as an aside…
