{"id":1111,"date":"2008-11-11T22:17:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T03:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2008-11-12T00:48:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T05:48:35","slug":"the-space-elevator-blog-gets-a-new-masthead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"The Space Elevator Blog gets a new masthead…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Yes dear readers, my blog finally has a masthead\u00a0I\u2019m proud of, and I have Susan Seichrist to thank for this!\u00a0 Susan\u00a0has been diligently working on this project, sending me idea after idea after idea on what the masthead could and should look like.\u00a0 What you see at the top is the fruits of her labors and I hope you like it as much as I do.<\/p>\n

Who is Susan Seichrist?\u00a0 Well, let her tell you who she is in her own words:<\/p>\n

I have a BA in Graphic Design from <\/em>SUNY – Fredonia campus<\/em><\/a> and have worked for a number of advertising and design firms for 25 years. I started my career in typography, which in retrospect was not a good career choice (thank you Apple).\u00a0 I transferred to graphic design and print production in the advertising world and have worked on pretty much every kind of print project.\u00a0 But with the web, there isn’t the need for print as much.<\/em><\/p>\n

What I love about design is getting the chance to learn about whatever field or company I am designing for, learning about things that I would not have on my own.\u00a0 With the Spaceward Games, for example, I have had the chance to design all kinds of things, from logos to ads to outdoor signage to name badges to T-shirts.<\/em><\/p>\n

These days I offer office management services to start-ups and small companies, and I do print freelance projects when they come along. My portfolio is available by request.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve always been envious of people who have artistic \/ design skills (I can\u2019t draw a straight line with a ruler).\u00a0 When Susan first took on this project, I didn\u2019t know what to expect.\u00a0 I saw the graphics she had done for Spaceward and was totally blown away by them, but could she work the same magic for me?\u00a0 She first sent me 8-9 possible masthead designs, all completely different; some modern, some whimsical, some stark, and some complicated.\u00a0 Some had lots of colors and some had few colors.\u00a0 All of them\u00a0looked great and it was with great difficulty that I finally chose one of the themes she sent me as my favorite.\u00a0 But she wasn\u2019t satisfied with her first attempt at the chosen theme.\u00a0 Over several iterations, she kept fine-tuning the results until what you see today is the result.\u00a0 I repeat, I\u2019m thrilled by it \u2013 thank you Susan!<\/p>\n

Some people may remember\u00a0Susan\u00a0from the\u00a0previous Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 In addition to doing the graphics work for the Games, she was one of those indispensable, behind-the-scenes people who made\u00a0it all\u00a0work.\u00a0 Attendees may also\u00a0remember her as the ‘Visited by a dragonfly’ <\/a>lady.<\/p>\n

If you want to contact Susan and enlist her services, you can email her at susan.seichrist@spaceward.org<\/a>.\u00a0 She is\u00a0wonderful to work with.<\/p>\n

Oh, and she’s married to Ben Shelef (the head of Spaceward<\/a>) so I’m sure you’ll see her at the upcoming Games too…<\/p>\n

Thanks again Susan – this blog’s masthead now looks ‘professionally done’ because, well, it WAS ‘professionally done’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes dear readers, my blog finally has a masthead\u00a0I\u2019m proud of, and I have Susan Seichrist to thank for this!\u00a0 Susan\u00a0has been diligently working on this project, sending me idea after idea after idea on what the masthead could and should look like.\u00a0 What you see at the top is the fruits of her labors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}