Monthly Archives: April 2008

What do you mean its just a fence?

When we bought our home a couple years ago, I knew that all the fences around the property were pretty beat up and did not have much life left. Strong winds blew portions of it down the last 2 years in row, and the whole thing has been somehow standing with props, temporary posts and [...]

Sizing icons for weight and balance

The illustrator in me has always loved any project that includes creating icons. Icons are simply mini illustrations that ad a visual element to assist in explaining something functional, contextual or that will simply help a user understand how to engage. What ads to this challenge is the minimal space and square aspect ratio allocated [...]

Old dog, learning new tricks

Over the years, I have taken great pride in the various technical milestones I have been able to achieve as a designer. Hell, when I finished with art school, I did not even know how to turn a computer on. I originally started out as a portrait painter | traditional illustrator, so when I first [...]

Just what the web needs – another blog…

I don’t really have much to say in this flagship post – yet I had to put something up in place of the default “Hello World” that has been staring at me while creating this blog. I have still yet to resolve the many bugs that I am finding either in my new site as [...]