I did get to enter dy/dan’s Annual Report contest. (It involved a lot of time management to spew these out — I did one slide a day.) I admit that there are some very easy ways to improve my images (my astute sister made some helpful suggestions), but since I have already submitted the four images, I’m going to leave them be.
The hard thing with design, I’ve learned in this short time, is that you are almost never going to be satisfied, because there is always one or two things that you realize could be made better (constantly tweaking and adjusting), or you come up with an entirely new idea that would take a huge amount of time to execute.
[Update: I am now officially on dy/dan’s page! Post here, and my contest entry here. Lookin’ good!]