December 22, 2008 – 12:04 am
Recently, I enjoyed another fantastic collaboration with Andrew Mager to create a new site identity and blog skin for Roland Lazenby’s “Laker Noise“. Roland is the author or co-author of more than 60 books, most of them about sports. Among his works are several Lakers-related projects, including the bio Mad Game, The NBA Education of [...]
September 1, 2008 – 10:42 pm
Just before the weekend – Andrew Mager asked if I could generate a new more subtle wordpress skin for his blog. Apparently, he had been having some issues with some of his larger images not fitting in his previous fixed width site, and was also hoping to go for a lighter and more simplified look [...]
So this week the CBS purchase of CNET Networks closed and I am now an employee of CBS Interactive. Every company focused on growth as we are, is concerned with maintaining and expanding on the group of people that make that growth possible. Internships are a key method in finding passionate new players to the [...]
This week Andrew Mager showed me “CSS For Lunch” – a new site that he had come up with. The goal is to get a group of talented tech producers to author various posts with the tips and tricks that they use on a daily basis. These can be quick rants that offer up an [...]
So lately it seems that I have been coming up with designs on Friday nights for friends I work with at CNET. This proves to be a good opportunity to be really loose with my design ideas, try new color pallets as well as to give me more sandbox projects to code with CSS and [...]
As of late, I have been pretty prolific in trying new things with CSS / XHTML – weather on my own site, or on a variety of other projects that I have been working on. In the process, there have been many folks who have been super helpful and downright generous with their time in [...]
Just pushed out a new site for Scott Pollack Illustration. Scott is an awesome illustrator who I have used numerous times for feature illustration projects on BNET. I love his work and was thrilled to have the opportunity to help him update his online home. The design which included a new logo, is intended on [...]
April 24, 2008 – 11:46 pm
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 [...]
April 14, 2008 – 11:22 pm
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 [...]