Zo Hippie

Graphic designer. Michigan raised. Florida living. Dogs. Harry Potter. Antiques. Crafts.

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When someone says that they don't like cheese

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I literally did this at work the other day.

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Florida’s Finest  |  Chelsea Manzo

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I just love mandalas. I learned how to make them pretty easily a couple years ago, and it’s one of the design projects I love going back to every now and then. This one was really inspired by that Jungalow trend. You can order products or art prints of this mandala in my Society6 shop:

https://society6.com/newspaperhippie/collection/mandalas

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I made this to celebrate when I changed my last name to my new married name. The tutorial unfortunately required you to use a photo of a red piece of wax, so I feel like it was a little cheap as far as tutorials go. But the end result was nice.

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I followed a tutorial from Tuts Plus to make this winter scene. I was trying to learn more about clipping masks and gradient meshes. It was challenging, and I felt like some of the instructions left out parts that made it kind of hard to follow. But I do have a little more experience in those little used areas now.

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I’ve been so obsessed with this Fauxsaics trend. This was my first attempt at it. I think it came out pretty well. It takes a long time to draw, but that’s not really the part I mind. I think I need to work most on perfecting the colors and shadowing. I’m not really sure how to do that though — I guess just trial and error.

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https://society6.com/newspaperhippie/collection/knope

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Let’s Go … Toast the New Year

Channeling her inner masterful mixologist, designer Chelsea Kleven created and illustrated this clever page that offers visual representations of great New Year’s libations.

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Test Your Knowledge of Villages History

Ours is a community that truly seems to believe history is what you make of it. To that end, our not-historic-at-all history quiz was wonderfully illustrated by designer Chelsea Kleven and given a vibrant palette befitting our too-good-to-be-true history.

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Let’s Go … Learn How to Say It With Emojis

For when Twitter’s too verbose, emojis provide a colorful way to wink, grin, smiley face and cry your way to true conversation. This week’s page was carefully curated by designer Chelsea Kleven. If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then this page has all the weight of War and Peace. Probably.

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Crocosmia Adds Vibrant Summer Color

The excellent editing and photo selection by designer Chelsea Kleven helps bring this week’s Home & Garden cover to life. From the page: “Now is the time to shop for those summer blooming bulbs like the Crocosmia or Monbretia.”

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Globetrotting to Greece

Quiz and page curation by senior designer Chelsea Kleven. From the page: “Ian and Espi Walmsley are an exceptionally well-traveled couple who dove into the history of Greece and Turkey on a recent trip.”

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Learn to Decorate with Texture

The excellent editing and photo selection by designer Chelsea Kleven helps bring this week’s Home & Garden cover to life. From the page: “Walk into some rooms, and you immediately feel welcomed, nurtured, visually excited. What’s the room’s secret?”

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Green’s a Go for Spring Decor

The excellent editing and photo selection by designer Chelsea Kleven helps bring this week’s Home & Garden cover to life. From the page: “When we start thinking ‘spring,’ one color comes to mind. Tender pea shoots, that soft fuzziness on budding trees, a new lawn — there’s a palette of greens that herald nature’s shift to the warm seasons.”

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Off the Grid in Patagonia

Quiz and page curation by senior designer Chelsea Kleven. From the page: “Villagers Paul Lathrop and Sue McLain spent nine adventure-filled days in the southern tip of South America.”

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Bring Butterflies to Your Garden

Senior designer Chelsea Kleven illustrated this uplifting diagrammatic page about local butterflies and how to identify them. The vibrant colors and simple grid helps what could be a chaotic page soar above the visual noise. Surely the color keys and hand-drawn diagrams will set aflutter many an amateur lepidopterist’s heart.