Regardless of what kind of work you do, it’s likely you encounter this type of project – high expectations, critical deadlines, limited resources (often too limited to deliver with). While this is a tough spot to be in, it’s certainly not the end of the world. Actually, some of my favorite projects over the years [...]
In actually, I redesigned my site about a year ago. I comped it out in Fireworks (as I always do), I went through a few versions (I went back and forth on the green color) and even cut it up into HTML and CSS. And then we had a baby, and implementing the redesign into [...]
Boy, I really must have fallen out of love with blogging in 2007, because I’m only posting about once or twice a month. It’s probably a phase I’m going through. But here’s what I’ve been up to lately.
San Francisco Vacation
During my recent San Francisco visit for Cooper Training, Faith flew out and we made a [...]
Sorry for the delay on this post, but the bad thing about leaving town for a week is that the work you would have been doing patiently awaits your return.
One of the things that has never quite sat right with me about design, is that it’s all so awfully subjective. Sure, you can point [...]
I’ve been using Macromedia Fireworks for years. At first, I had a bit of a difficult transition from Photoshop to Fireworks. Fireworks is really half Illustrator and half Photoshop, entirely geared towards web design. For example, it only operates in RGB – no CMYK. You won’t be creating print layouts in Fireworks. But the [...]
I don’t remember who, but someone told me this prior to my going to Portland ? there are a lot of transexuals in the city. Now I didn’t really pay this much attention at the time, but it did occur to me that it was a strange thing to say about a city. I also [...]