Who is Lisa Romao?
She has been working in the graphic design field since 1998. She dates the start of her visual arts career to age 5, when she bought her first camera (Brownie Starmite) for 50 cents at a tag sale. Her mother still has the blurred images of her kindergarten class.
She's a real design geek who still gets a thrill seeing pieces actually printed. Although photography will always hold a special place in her heart, she rarely goes far without her camera. She generally does a lot of crafting and cooking around the holidays for gift-giving season, making her own cards, gift tags, soaps, candies, and tons of cookies.
She's also a self-admitted learning junkie. Her home has a vast collection of collected how-to books and magazines that would make some librarians green with envy. And she spends copious amounts of time on the internet hunting down tutorials and news items.
She ultimately would like to work in a nonprofit environment that benefits children and/or the environment, as she is a big kid and a bit of a tree-hugger at heart. She brings her own bags to the supermarket, uses the twisted light bulbs (every bit helps), and can often be found oohing and aahing over faeries and sparkly objects.
What does good design mean to Lisa?
Good design needs to be clean and serve, rather than get in the way of, the information being presented to the viewer. It should be fun and have a sense of humor (appropriate to the material), provoke thought, evoke emotion. It should never be more than it needs to be or the message will get lost; but not so little that the message can’t be found either.
What are Lisa's favorite non-designer things to do?
When she's not spending time with her husband Michael and their orange tabby cat Loki, she sews, reads a lot (current novel in progress: is Tori Amos Piece by Piece), watches a lot of movies (romantic tearjerkers and foreign films), and TV watching (current favorites are: House, Project Runway, CSI, Heroes, Good Eats!, and Extreme Home Makeover). The biggest adventure she has had, so far, was to planning her Renaissance-themed wedding and honeymoon in England.
My Fav Links
Learning
Online Software Training
CSS Tips -
A List Apart
lynda.com
Environmental
CT Green Scene
World Widllife Fund
Viropop
Nonprofits
Save the Children
American Cancer Society
Windrush Farm
Volunteer Match