{"id":14,"date":"2014-01-23T23:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T23:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moorespark.com\/Blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2014-03-28T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T19:58:04","slug":"welcome-to-the-spark-a-blog-about-all-things-graphic-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moorespark.com\/Blog\/welcome-to-the-spark-a-blog-about-all-things-graphic-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Spark!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moorespark.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15 alignleft\" alt=\"Portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/moorespark.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Portrait-231x300.jpg\" width=\"185\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/moorespark.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Portrait-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/moorespark.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Portrait.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>A Little Info About Myself<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hi everybody, and welcome to my new blog!\u00a0 My name is Matt Lloyd, and I&#8217;m a freelance Graphic Designer.\u00a0 I work under my company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MooreSpark.com\/portfolio\" target=\"_blank\">Moore Spark Graphic Design<\/a> (my middle name is Moore), and I specialize in branding, full identity packages, and print design.\u00a0 I&#8217;m from Alaska (although I live in Colorado now), I&#8217;m 31, I have a dog named Gaia Bryn Clovertons, a cat named Maximus Meowy Whiskertons, and an amazing fiancee&#8217; named Kari.\u00a0 I have a degree in graphic design from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and have been designing professionally for about 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h3>What is The Spark?<\/h3>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve wanted to create a blog for my business for a while now, and figured there&#8217;s no time like the present.\u00a0 The Spark will be a resource for me to share some of my technical knowledge about design and software usage (in case you&#8217;ve ever wanted to know the basics of Digital Image Manipulation), provide an outlet for some of my design-related rants and raves (misspellings on billboards, e.g.), and strategies and insights to help small business succeed through proper design and marketing.\u00a0 I also plan on using the blog to help spread the word about my clients, so you never know what you might come across.<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h3>Let&#8217;s Build Something Together<\/h3>\n<p>I want The Spark to grow into a thriving community, so feel free to leave any comments to further any discussion.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to hear from you for suggestions on topics, client ideas, or just to chat so please send me an email or just leave a comment, I&#8217;ll see it.\u00a0 Also, if you&#8217;d like to see whether I&#8217;m qualified to be running at the mouth about design, you can take the time to go check out my portfolio.\u00a0 I&#8217;m very excited to see how The Spark is going to grow and where this could lead us in the future.\u00a0 Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>See my Thumbtack profile here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thumbtack.com\/MooreSpark-Graphic-Design-Parker-CO\/service\/850388\">MooreSpark Graphic Design<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A Little Info About Myself Hi everybody, and welcome to my new blog!\u00a0 My name is Matt Lloyd, and I&#8217;m a freelance Graphic Designer.\u00a0 I work under my company, Moore Spark Graphic&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greetings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Welcome to The Spark! 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