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About me

Gender Female
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Interactive Designer
Location Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Introduction A 27 year old designer trying to improve the world around her. She has a design obsession with circles and teal, an aversion to capital letters, and her favorite punctuation is the period. She gets excited about Art Deco and vector art, her favorite movie and the reason she is where she is today is Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal. She likes dim sum and coffee, but not together. She's also recently become addicted to knitting.
Interests baking, crafting, designing, pets, bananas, chocolate, color, pattern, interaction, coding, animating, building systems and finding solutions, sparks, thunder
Favorite Movies the incredibles, monsters inc., chocolat, amelie, big fish, hedwig and the angry inch, hair, moulin rouge, princess mononoke, spirited away, howl's moving castle, studio ghibli, the princess bride, oh brother where art thou?, kill bill, stardust, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, down with love, radioland murders, amadeus, ocean's 11, sneakers, snatch
Favorite Music frank sinatra, aretha franklin, cole porter, fountains of wayne, weezer, frou frou, apples in stereo, peter parker, old 97s, roger clyne and the peacemakers, fleetwood mac, paul simon, david bowie, tom petty, led zeppelin, james brown, gorillaz, goldfrapp, blur, sneaker pimps, tricky, portishead, metric, von bondies, white stripes, weakerthans, modest mouse, tori amos, ani difranco
Favorite Books edward eager, jack whyte, neil gaiman, phillip pullman, chronicle books, andy goldworthy, understanding comics, usbourne guide to the supernatural world, the time traveller's wife, the cheese monkeys, the color of distance, tintin