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 interesting method, yet can be both written or read on ones lunch break.

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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 semantic markup. I enjoy being prolific as it helps make me faster both with my visual designs as well as with my recent renaissance with code. Tonight, my project was to come up with a brand for MobKool – a blog from friend John Potter.

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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 helping me ad to my bag of tricks. A LARGE group of my piers have been there to answer questions, and I thank each of you for your time. However 2 folks in particular have really offered up both answers as well as taken a lot of time to coach me through some concepts that took some repeat questions before I truly grasped!

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I have long held the belief, that the most beautiful things in life – Are beautiful with, or without us. So it is up to all of us to see the things that are so easy to overlook or simply take for granted. If we choose “to see” then this is also our fortune.

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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.

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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 maybe even a couple band-aids. (On my hands from propping it back up in the rain!~)

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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 towards telling this visual story.

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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 moved into the digital art arena, I felt overwhelmed that all my counterparts had a BIG technical edge on me. Being able to draw by hand made me fairly quick with composition, color and conceptualizing – yet it still took me longer to do what others seem to make simple work out of. As a result, for years I have been obsessed with learning tricks, short cuts, command keys – basically anything else to make myself faster and more technically savvy.

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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 a whole, or within this customized WP Theme. (First time I have ever messed with a WP Theme by the way)

So I guess I will keep it at a minimum and just be glad that progress is occuring – if only in the fact that Hello world is the only thing I have to say.