Just bloggin’ about design, life, and stuff.
Posted in: tips, work at about 4pm
Over the past year or so, at my place of work, I’ve been involved in a few teams assigned the task of helping interview potential employees. Being a part of these groups I have had to write interview questions, ask them, and respond to the answers in various ways. In this process I have become [...]
Posted in: CSS, Prototyping at about 3pm
I have been professionally designing websites for clients for approximately 2 years now. I have a lot of experience yet to gain, but there are a few helpful things I’ve come to learn.
One of them is that when there are pretty colors and images, a lot of clients have a really tough time seeing the [...]
Posted in: comtip at about 8am
If you tell a sweet joke that gets a good reaction, but after a few moments the hoopla starts to die down, to pump everyone back up explain why the joke was/is funny. When you begin to explain the joke, start by saying, “Get it? It’s funny because…” and proceed to tell everyone why it [...]
Posted in: design, resources, tools at about 10am
Every web designer, over time, develops their set of go-to resources to use while designing. I have been making websites professionally for over three years and amateurly for closer to seven. In that time, here are the top tools and resources that I’ve come to appreciate and rely on.
A little note on my selection: these [...]
Posted in: comtip at about 9am
A couple years back, I created a website where I shared some of my all-time-favorite, completely original comedy tips. The website did well for a year or so, while I was updating it, but then as I got lazy, it sort of drifted into nothingness.
For fun, I’m going to start re-posting some of the content [...]
Posted in: Links, site news at about 8am
My Precious An important article by Andy Rutledge.
Cool Business Cards from Inspiredology.
Logopond Awards some of these are better than others.
Here’s a portfolio from a design group in Ukraine. There are a bunch of hand lettered pieces drawn on napkins that really get me going. Gorgeous. (via ilovetypography.com)
Finally, The Journal of Urban Typography is a tumble [...]
Posted in: design, inspiration, typography at about 9am
In order to keep my ideas fresh, I like to find sources of inspiration for my work. I like to look at stuff that is similar to what I do, but also at stuff that is pretty dissimilar to what I do. The variation, I feel, helps me stretch my thinking and exposes me to [...]
Posted in: design, pattern, play, type, work at about 9am
This December I graduated from college. After graduation, I started working a basically normal work week—40 hours. That is 40 hours of web design per week. While I love it, I have found that much focused time on doing one sort of creative task can be quite taxing on me mentally and creatively. After a [...]
Posted in: site news at about 11am
I am a web designer and I really enjoy reading blogs about web design. I have my favorites, but one thing that has sort of disenfranchised me as I’ve been reading these sites is that a lot of them speak from a place that I am not. Specifically, I do not own my own design [...]
Posted in: site news at about 3pm
I decided for a variety of reasons to change this site again.
I have a new vision accompanied by some new passion. Hopefully I will be able to start writing some interesting things on here in the near future. Keep your eyes pealed.