Category Archives: Personal

Ideas of March 2012

15-Mar-12

I like to blog about  design. The tricky thing about that is that it is hard to blog about design when you don’t feel great about the design of your blog. My “blog design complex” has been a big hurdle for me over the past year. It inhibits my blogging.
Blogging is a critical piece of [...]

The Big Day

18-May-11

It was a little over five years ago when I met Jim Jones. He was setting up his camera equipment to shoot an enormous trade-show booth in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that he had designed. He was wearing all black and looked exceedingly dapper, standing out from the majority of the conference attendees who were dressed [...]

Design for America: Design for People

25-May-10

For a little under 3 years I worked on the US Army’s web team. The entire experience could be pages of blog posts in itself, I learned a lot about design, the web, our government, our military, friendship, talent and about life. We were responsible for the design and maintenance of Army.mil at the height [...]

Interesting Projects and Interesting Adventures

04-Mar-10

There are lots of new things I wanted to share with you all…
New Work up and New Type
Check out my “work” section to see a few new and not so new projects that are now featured. I completely revamped my work section to show larger site shots and to be less reliant on images. While [...]

My Posters & The Posters that Influenced Them

04-Aug-09

My bedrooms were always plastered with the most badass posters in College & High School. Sure some of them glowed when the black lights were turned on, but many were beautifully crafted pieces of art. Like many folks going into the design field, I had lofty dreams of being a hip gig poster designer with [...]

A Tale of Changing Career Paths & Pursuing Design

02-Jul-09

I get lots of e-mails and inquires from folks looking for advice on making a career change to the design industry.  Its tough for me to give any sort of advice, its a personal decision that depends on personal circumstances. Many of the students in my classes at CDIA-BU have made the decision to go [...]