These days I find it hard to devote time to anything not work-related, in the office I’m jumping between multiple projects, and my own clients eat up my (would be) down-time. Read More »

In my absence, I’m certain the cricket’s concerto was enough to keep up appearances.  I’m posting when I should be sleeping again, but it warrants mention that, for the time being at the least, I can count myself a team member over at Croteau Designs.  I spent the day in the office working on flash animation.  i pulled a full 10 hour day, and I’m headed back in tomorrow to keep right on at it.  There are some little naked squirrel babies a few hours from here… i wonder if they will ever grow to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed…

i’ve been talking for a while about building a social network of my own, probably centered around music, art, design, and creation in general.  i’ve always been intrigued by invention, innovation, and ingenuity, and i have this eerie sort of feeling that i might not be alone on this one.  the summer before my 17th birthday i actually did build a social network;  a primitive messaging system that centered on the ability to add friends and keep track of what they were doing.  it was very basic, and hardly scalable, but it worked.  i never did put it online though, i left for college with the entire php/html source on a cd-r, and forgot all about my dream of bringing people together for a common good.

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i had an awakening today, in the form of a chat with a programmer at eliteSEM. we talked about what makes good design, and how it’s about more than colors that look nice, how it’s more than just a visual concept. we talked a lot about something i’ve known for quite some time: form follows function. make it work, and make it intuitive — and then make it pretty. Read More »

Wow, did I just title this post tra la la? I think I did. Anyhow, last night Croteau contracted me for a quick fix on the new Claremont class sign up system. Claremont is like private school for the K-5 set, you’ve heard of finishing school right? Well, if you’re finished, you had to start somewhere, and in Manhattan, that place is Claremont Preparatory School.

I was in the office for most of today, and I designed a new flash banner to go along with the redesign of Serviceleads.net, you can check it out here. I’m not sure yet when the new site will be up, but I can tell you that it’s a vast improvement over the current design. Oh yeah, now I remember what the tra la la’ing was all about, August 12th the office might be having a Six Flags day!

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well there is.  i like it.  there, i said it.

Yesterday I was inducted into the clan of the elite, eliteSEM if you wanna get technical. The experience was nothing short of remarkable… which, incidentally, is why I chose to remark on it here. Read More »

I’m meeting with Lorne Jay Landsman tomorrow, over at EliteSEM, but in the meantime, I’m keeping busy by polishing off a few designs for my 2 new favorite sites. I’m actually thinking about adding a section to my main page here to showcase my latest submissions. I’m not sure if there’s a API I can make use of, or if I’ll have to enter each one manually like I do here, but we’ll see. There’s definitely a redesign in the works… Read More »

I received an email today from Pete Burgeson, director of marketing at crowdSPRING.  I’m not making any comparisons just yet, but the model is fairly similar to 99designs.  It’s a marketplace for creatives, which means it’s definitely worth checking out if you’re a designer.

I’ve been keeping busy these days by designing submissions for contests on 99designs.com.  This searchable list of projects is already becoming an invaluable tool for me to hone my skills, develop new ones, and see firsthand where the trends are headed.  Here’s what I’ve done in the past 2 days: Read More »

Starting next week, I’ll be interning at EliteSEM.  This is me excited.  Great opportunities await, just on the other side of that door, and now, I have a key…  let’s see if it fits the lock.

I had an interview with Ben Kirshner, the CEO at eliteSEM, the other day, at his offices on the west side.  The interview was for an internship position, and the possibility of being brought on full time: salary, and benefits. Read More »

Making my world just that much easier — why didn’t I do this sooner?

Lots of interesting stuff in here, can’t wait to try the 3d techniques discussed.

I love purevolume.com, in fact I refuse to create a music myspace.  One thing myspace does do better, though, is the ability to have more than four(4) songs in your playlist.  So I said to myself, as I often do when noone else is listening, I’m gonna write my own media player, and start my own website to showcase my music.  So that’s what I’m gonna do.  It’s my pet project, and I’m going to chronicle the entire process right here.  Stay tuned to figure out how I go from having no idea where to even start, to a fully functioning final product.