In internet years, I'm a old software engineer looking for what to do next. I've started to work with a partner to operate a book publishing company. I'm the technical one, she is the smart one. I'm doing the book cover, interior design work and anything related to files and formats, she is handling the word-smithing and the clients. We are both hackers, I hack on computers and she, with her many degrees and years of academic paper writing, does the word hacking. I think I got the better end of the deal and she thinks she did, so its a perfect fit.
I've had a desire to learn and do something new in my "retirement" and have gravitated to graphic design. I have found that a lot of the abilities and skills I used as an embedded systems design engineer are applicable to graphic design: organization, planning, system design, creativity etc. I need to develop art techniques:-)
I have found and have been playing with Gimp, Inkscape, Image magick, Librecad, Openscad, Freecad and Blender plus a whole bunch of other standalone utilities. The nice thing about this is that they all run on almost every operating system know to man-kind. We still have a lot of clients that haven't upgraded to GNU/Linux so interoperability is important. We don't want to alienate either the apple people or the microsoft people. Our whole company is run on FLOSS products.
Looking forward to learning some of the advanced techniques from the best.
Right now my goals are modest. I just want my designs to not look like I'm working with crayons.
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