It turns out that planning a wedding, no matter what the scale, is an awful lot of work. From booking venues, to flowers and tents, sending invitations, following up on RSVPs, crossing your fingers about the weather, etc. etc., it has a way of eating up your life and t...

Between book covers, typesetting, marketing design, writing (not enough!), roller derby, and whatever other commitments I've taken on in a given month, it's hard to find time to do much else.

However, while moving apartments took a big chunk of time out of my life for a...

One of the questions visitors to CorusKate.com seem to have relatively frequently is:

WHY PUBLISH YOUR REJECTS?

Why, when a book has gone off to press with its finalreallyfinalforsurethistimeFINAL17b.pdf cover do I feel motivated to post the samples that weren't quite ri...

If you've read my blog before, you will know that I have a weakness for packaging, specifically in the grocery store. I go to the shops intending to buy some eggs, and end up being the strange person taking photographs of mayonnaise. Here's the latest in my grocery adv...

My life for the past few years has been essentially split between work (mostly design) and play (always roller derby), so it makes sense that the two would overlap occasionally. 

Border City Brawlers roller derby league, my home league (I skate on the All-Star travel t...

CONFESSION: I am one of those people who really likes to go grocery shopping.

I enjoy strolling every aisle, crossreferencing sales to flyers for cheaper grocery stores, and comparing and examining nutritional information, so much that many people in my life refuse to...

I see design everywhere. Good design, bad design, design that makes me want to buy a product and design that makes me wonder who got paid to produce it.

In this blog, I will be posting the good and the bad of designs I encounter, as well as updates and works in progres...