The list of adjectives used to develop this mood board: creative, productive, persistent, knowledgeable, thoughtful, tall, middle-aged, inventive, resourceful, experienced, even tempered, intellectual, working class, tired, hopeful, realistic, accepting, resurgent, reliable, strange, funny, pessimistic, fair, hard working, trustworthy, helpful, anxious.

The words in bold were the primary focus of the board.

Just finished my first assignment for my intro to graphic design class, a mood board. I'm a 44 year old college undergrad with no savings, little means of income, and a 30 year mortgage, but I'm still here and still working forward. I was asked to generate 25+ adjectives that describe me and the 2 of them that I used to develop the mood board were "anxious" and "persistent". Needless to say, the mood board turned out a little bit weird. More art than design, hard to read, but bristling with a sense of anxiety and determination. We'll see how this goes over in class tomorrow morning at 8 am. Think kindly of me, I'm an artist by nature, I don't know how to function in the civilized world.

Well, here we are, 26 years after entering art school and dropping out, after decades of dong things that I didn't want to be doing to put food in my mouth, almost 30 years after the professional aptitude test that said. "be a graphic designer"...  a design blog. Sure. Why not? I have relevant things to say. The world wants to know what I have to say.