My Design Work
My portfolio, prototypes, design work and some fun and silly stuff. [16 entries.]
Photoshop play
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I heart Franklin Gothic
I really do. Here it's a lot more apparently why Franklin Gothic is better - the fanciful lowercase g, the Sturdy uppercase M. In Century Gothic and Futura, the M looks like it's about to do the splits. In Century Gothic, the lowercase g is so round your eye bounces right off of it. Blech....
All in a day's work
One of the best things about working for a big corporation is that you get to see real life examples of the Peter Principle in action. For example, I actually really received this as a note on a design I'm working on for a couple people very high up in our company: Add a search result to the bottom of...
Screwing around in photoshop
Making some half-ass wallpapers for my iPhone...
Harry Potter Shirts
The Harry Potter Shirts I designed for us to wear to the release party to night at my mom's Barnes and Noble store in Noblesville.......
SXSW thoughts
One of the first things I plan to do is take a closer look at Microformats and see where I can mark up my site appropriately. While I was sitting in the panel, I downloaded the firefox operator extension, and I've been playing with it. I also want to get OpenID set up on this site so I can use...
More Designy Goodness
I've tweaked my new design here and there, made some color use more consistent and added some extra flair. There are still some some css layout changes that I need to make to fix a couple of pages, and I have a one-off template or two that need some I must say, I really enjoy looking at my own site...
Rethinking things
I've been re-working my new prototypes for this site quite a bit lately, and rethinking the design, as well. I realized the other day that my dissatisfacting with some of my new direction is due to the quirkiness of the content and how long it's been around, and how I use the site differently now than I did 12 years...
Rough Cut: My New Site Design
Here's what I've been working on all weekend. It's quite rough, still, and needs a lot of refinement. I haven't picked the correct font for my new logo, and there's a lot missing and lots of little stuff that still needs cleaned up. But you get the general idea of where I'm headed....
Bilerico Logo Prototypes
Logos for the Bilerico website. Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4...
PARODY of the "Citizens Concerned for the Constitution" Logo
The Indiana right-wing anti-gay group "Citizens Concerned for the Constitution" [now known as Advance America] used to have this nazi-esque Art Deco logo, which I grabbed and and used to create this PARODY logo, making the macho man in the middle into a gay guy, and adding a nice well-muscled woman into the group for balance. I'm making my PARODY...
Commonplacebook.com Shirts and Gear
The Official Commonplacebook.com Shirts and Gear Store. Now you to can campaign for truth, justice, the American Way, and no illegal left turns on Meridian Street during rush hour.
Banner Ads for Commonplacebook.com
A bunch of goofy banner ads I created a long time ago....
Silly Little Flash Movie
Yep, it's my first little movie, so don't laugh. I need to do a lot more work in this area. Movie 1 Movie 2...
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