Vincent Morisset is probably my favorite artist of 2011. You may know him from any variety of projects for The Arcade Fire. I saw him at OFFF in Barcelona and was super impressed with his work, but even more so by his explanation of his process. He just always seems to take it one stepContinue Reading

In Response to the new Cognition blog commenting system The good people from Happy Cog have just launched their very own blog, Cognition. Without a doubt, it will be a beacon of light, and a joy to read. Proof: the very first post introduces a “new” commenting system. There are some ups and downs andContinue Reading

I left my last job a few months ago for one primary reason. I was a designer working in a vacuum. I was the only designer in the company, a position a lot of people would love (you get paid well, they can’t afford to lose you, etc. ). However, I have a core beliefContinue Reading

After a conversation at lunch today with Sven Elligen and Alex Coles, I have come one step closer to realizing how I fit into this online design community thing, and the answer is… not as much as I thought. For the past few years I have been trying to make the connection between the designContinue Reading

Something New Last weekend was a new experiment. For the most part, when I make websites, I do all the planning, graphics, and markup myself. I’m normally a one man shop (although I’m actively looking for new people to collaborate with), writing most of the (X)HTML and CSS by hand. That control is very importantContinue Reading

For years the complaints have been filed about fonts on the web. The limitations are strong which leaves only a few typographic choices. This is nothing new. When I first started designing websites, I remember being shocked by the constraints. MS Word could use many more fonts than the web could, and I felt likeContinue Reading

I started at a new company over 6 months ago and from day one my primary job description was to create a new website for our company. It is finally done. It took about 6 months to wait on content, and then when I finally got permission to write it myself, it took about twoContinue Reading

It seems that a lot is being said recently about separating content from design, an issue which is by no means a new one (see this article from A List Apart in 2004). This time around, it seems like the target audience is those of us that never really got it in the first placeContinue Reading