About Us
Angie Bowen
I’m Angie Bowen, one of the creative minds behind Arbenting. I’ll go ahead and admit here that words aren’t my strong point, I’ve always leaned more toward the visual side of expression when it comes to the arts, the side where words don’t matter as much. So the writing aspect of the blogs is something that is fairly greek to me, but I must say I have enjoyed the blogging aspect of the work.
I began my design career years ago learning to build and devise websites. Now that I have a firm handle on both xhtml and css, I plan to move on to explore PHP and Ruby on Rails and see what they have got to offer.
If you would like to connect further, follow me on Twitter.
Rob Bowen
And I’m Robert Bowen, the other half of the Arbenting duo. I’m a Libra, and I enjoy long hikes in the hills, and wait, what website is this for again? Oh, yeah. Um, ignore that last bit there, I would erase it, but I’m a lazy typist. Probably copywriting was the wrong area for me to focus my expertise, with that being the case, but low and behold, my focus is fixed.
After my stint working for an Arts Council and producing all of their copy for promotional materials, newsletters, and press releases, I really grew fond of a more technical aspect to writing. I had never written in a professional arena, and while the freedom of scripts and poems still has it’s appeal, I have enjoyed the more structured format of working in copywriting as well. The design field has always held my interest, and while my talents lay more towards layout and composition, I do occasionally labor through putting some designs together myself. Though, admittedly, I tend toward the pen more often than not.
If you would like to connect further, follow me on Twitter.
The Blog
Arbenting began as a dream that followed us around for a while, and suddenly became a reality for us around four years ago, and we haven’t looked back since. In fact, we have been running with it ever since. Growing in our roles and building a place for us in the online community. Starting with Arbent Creative Designs, which became Arbenting for the blog, then growing beyond that into our darker side design line Dead Wings Designs, we launched head first into the waters and soon found ourselves as temporary editors for Fuel Your Creativity. When we decided to step down and return to our work here, we wanted to redirect our efforts towards creating a resource site of freebies for the community to get use out of and so Arbenting became Arbenting Freebies. Now here we are…hope you stick around to see how far down this rabbit hole is going!
P.S. We get asked a lot just where we got the name Arbent, or consequently Arbenting, and so we thought that we would include that here. We wanted something both original and meaningful, which was difficult to come up with as we poured through the options. Then one day it came to us. A simple approach that would satisfy both of our criteria. We decided to work off of the principle idea of Angie and Robert Bowen Enterprises, and broke it down so that |A|ngie and |R|obert |B|owen |Ent|erprises became Arbent. Then as we put that into practice and began blogging about designing it became a verb Arbenting. And that is the very uninteresting story of how we became Arbenting.
