Hello.

Thanks for visiting my little home online.  My name is Yvette.  I grew up in a small town in Northeast Kansas - part farm girl, part city girl.  And... well... the city girl won and I now reside in the Chicago area.  I simply love coming home to this city.  Seeing the skyline still puts a smile on my face - cheesy, I know!  I am thirty-something, still looking for Mr. Right and have two cats, Lucy and Phoebe. 

I am a graduate of the University of Kansas [ design ] and as a result am a huge college basketball fan.  I have been to four Final Fours and was there in 2008 when the Jayhawks took the title.  It was one of those moments I am positive I will never forget.  

I am slightly obsessed with travel - European cities are my favorite destinations!  I think maybe I was French in a past life.  I am so thankful that my parents let me fly off to backpack through Europe while doing a little study abroad thing.  It absolutely changed my life.  

I am a designer and project manager for a small firm and have been with that same firm for 16 years. [ wierd, I know!! ]  It's kind of hard to explain what exactly I do, but let me give it a go.  I design signage and wayfinding systems.  Think of an airport or hospital - you know all of those signs that tell you where to go, well I design those.  I decide what they look like, what they say, where they are placed in the space, how they are made and connected to the architecture.  Each project is a whole new set of challenges and thus my job is ever changing.  

Good design inspires me.  Interiors. Product.  Print.  Web.  I love it all.  I follow a ridiculous amount of RSS feeds - almost all design inspired.  

Oh and then there's the photography.  I do not consider myself a "photographer" but rather a photo enthusiast.  Hobbiest?  I don't know exactly, but I LOVE to take pictures.  I always have.  I have had my photos published in a few books and most recently in an iPhone app!  I have not ventured into selling my photos because I fear it will no longer be fun.  It might become more work than pleasure and I work enough at the day job.  :)

I have a consolidated website, www.yvettefevurly.com, where you can find links to all of my photo sites.  I have been blogging since 2004 - specifically photoblogging.  I started this blog in 2006 [ on Vox ] and think of it as my online journal.  I blog about what I like and what I do and it's ... simply my life.