I’ve got two objectives with this blog; to give information and to gain information – it is all about insight. I don’t write for my co-workers, friends or family. When I write, I am often writing for someone who I’ve never met; someone who is asking or answering the same questions as I.
I’ve been researching and sketching out a concept for developing a new light-weight CMS that isn’t actually a CMS. It is more of a social networking aggregate publishing system.
If history truly repeats itself, then Facebook will step down from the king of the hill four years from its popularity over MySpace as every leader before it had for almost the past fifteen years.
I decided to take a few hours last night and using CSS alone, create an iPhone/iPod Touch friendly version of the default WordPress theme based on the famous Kubrick.
I am excited and honored to announce that I’ll be teaching a course, GD301A, at the Maryland Institute College of Art this fall semester. It is an amazing opportunity to teach ‘web design’ at such a prestigious institution.
What is more valuable; quantity and quality of work or a degree? If the work ultimately outshines the degree, should we question spending half our first decade getting into debt as opposed to building a career?
A video that does an amazing job of highlighting the sad realities of the creative process that many clients and management teams put us through. The video really highlights the beauty of clean minimalistic design.
Today my first article on Digital Web Magazine was published; pretty exciting stuff! The piece is title, “Smart CSS Ain’t Always Sexy CSS”. Another highly debated topic that I am sure will stir up some good discourse.
You may think its just semantics, but the difference is enormous. For creative teams, those truly creative and striving to push the limits of inspiration and innovation, environment is everything.
The new Walmart logo has a Kmart and Payless visual feel to it; a sense of cheapness. Not the low price type of cheapness; but the sticky floor, strange smell, unkempt employee type of cheapness.
It isn’t the making of mistakes and learning from them that has made me successful – it is knowing that I can and thus not being afraid to make mistakes that is the key.
Today Jason from 37signals posted a ridiculous piece titled, “Why we skip Photoshop”.
Funding isn’t a check box on the start-up list of “things to do”; it is simply an option for those who require help to get where they want to go.
Social Media is not about exposure, it is not about easily accessing of information … those are things that are about the web in general.
Last night I spoke at Refresh-DC about “Getting serious with freelancing”. My presentation was really a discussion on the transition from side-work to serious-work as a freelancer.
We are proud to announce the launch of the 2008 SXSW ABX website, geekslovebowling.com. The 3rd annual SXSW ABX is on! So, what is it? It’s bowling for geeks by geeks, because geeks love bowling.
What will a Microsoft take over of Yahoo! mean for our beloved Yahoo! properties such as flickr? Feature bloat, multiple versions and pricing structures no one can understand?
We are happy to announce that the Museum of Sex redesign has officially launched — just in time for the unveiling of their latest and greatest exhibition; appropriately titled, “Sex in Design/Design in Sex”.
I am ready for a redesign of my own personal site. This has been a long-time coming, especially as I’ve been recently debating the form and function of this site. I am moving to a web2.5 look and feel; this more of a design satire then a reflection of personal taste.
I wonder, in this post Web 2.0 world we design in – is there room for creativity or have all the good ideas been thought of and now we are tasked with just recreating the same? I came across six logo designs recently that really got me fired up as a designer and prompted this rant.
The good ole’ boys and girls at The Motley Fool launched their most recent redesign of fool.com yesterday afternoon. This redesign comes almost exactly one year after the last aesthetic update to the homepage.
It has been debated time and time again — are we in for another internet bubble burst? Well … there is a great video floating around that might help shed some light on the question. A must watch, extremely entertaining.
Where have I been? Is anyone out there just checking the feed reader daily for a new MarylandMedia post? Doubtful, but in my mind there are thousands of you out there and this is for you! So, why the lack of posts and why are the few posts coming out not as sexy as those […]
Hola chaos, adios productivity – that is the true tagline of DC’s social experiment, Startup Weekend. But it was a great time none-the-less and much was learned; just not what I thought I would have learned. DC Startup Weekend was more of a crash course in living the life of a start-up than it was […]
Have you ever been in a client meeting or within a design review among your co-workers where the comments really made you as a web designer feel obsolete? They say “everyone is a designer”, but Agency Fusion has really
taken that concept to the next level in their hilariously accurate satire on non-designer/designer interaction.
I highly recommend […]
The weekend of October 26th through 28th I will be participating in DC Startup Weekend. I have strong concerns about the potential chaos but am still extremely excited — I love anything that brings this community together to try and bring great ideas to life! However, it looks as though my participation has begun a […]
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