Michelle has been dabbling in freelance design while working in the local animation industry as an Animator/AfterEffects artist on various Flash animaton productions for the last 5 years. She has a background in classical animation, but finds herself leaning more toward communication design these days - wanting to bridge the gap between handmade and digital, to bring the personality of hand-production back into her designs and illustrations. She enjoys drawing, printmaking, sewing, embroidery, collage, crocheting, bookbinding, blog formatting, and many other textural, handmade & digital techniques.