One of the things I love about what I do is getting to be around really talented people that are doing awesome things. Increasingly, I see my role as a facilitator and someone that brings designers together – both with each other and with other projects. This connection factor is one of my favorite aspectsContinue Reading

If you haven’t heard about it yet, there is a new viral video in town. Kony2012 has 80 MILLION views on youtube as of this writing. It was posted just over a week ago. And that’s just on youtube. Visible Measures says that it got to 70 million views faster than any other viral videoContinue Reading

Chris Shiflett, a respected “web craftsman”, has put out a challenge to do more blogging and to show our appreciation of the medium. I’d like to take a quick minute to accept his challenge and to post just a little bit about why I blog and what I like about reading other blogs. If youContinue Reading

Portraits of kids are all the same. There may be a lot of them out there, but in the end, they are all just a variation on the same happy theme – a commentary that kids are always smiling and laughing. I think we do them an injustice by painting them this way. This hasContinue Reading

Happy New Years! 2012 may be the end of the world, so I figured I better start getting my act together. It’s time for a New Year’s resolution. I’m not really into this type of stuff so I figure I’d better make it nice and simple. There’s a lot of things I want to doContinue Reading

As you probably already know, I am now working at Evernote as a User Interface Designer. So far, it has been nothing short of fantastic. They are a class act organization and I’m super glad to be working with everyone there (here?). A few days ago, CNN Money was in the office. They just releasedContinue Reading

A self-portrait isn’t something I would usually try, but this was a class assignment. My goal was to use it to push myself to share more about who I am than felt comfortable. So, I figured I could at least give you all a synopsis. I’d love to hear your feedback Step 1: Make itContinue Reading

When thinking about what I wanted my new website to be like (coming soon), I realized that just showing my portfolio didn’t really express who I was at all. That’s just small part of who I am. In fact, the very pieces I choose not to show in my portfolio might have contributed to whoContinue Reading

I’ve been thinking about how to write the About Me page for my new website for almost a year now. There is one major problem when approaching this issue, and that is the inherent assumption that it should adequately reflect who you are. While that is the clear goal, I think it is more thanContinue Reading

I am working on a Masters degree in Art Direction these days. We’re in the section on communication and I thought I’d share a recent project with you. Objective We were given a short story and asked to create an artifact that would use a different communication language to present the same story. An artifactContinue Reading