October 30, 2011
More often than not, the first thing that the client sees is an image of a website, framed inside of a browser to help along the idea that this image could one day be an actual website, but not yet. What we're at looking is made up of a bunch of pixels, not HTML or CSS. Interaction is limited. I can create a click-through as a trick illusion that by mimicks the functionality of the site. But pull back the door of the Aztec Tomb and it's just a predetermined set of images.
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September 25, 2011
This summer my good friend and I rode our bikes from Philadelphia to New York City. Read More »
June 19, 2011
I use dummy text. I'm not proud of it and it's never an ideal solution, but sometimes it's a necessary evil. Read More »
May 05, 2011
"We'll go because it's Thursday," he said, "and we'll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet." Read More »
March 23, 2011
There are only a few things that are not overly abundant and easily accessible in New York City. One is space and the other is time. Enter The Old Man Schedule. Read More »
March 18, 2011
I'm not a writer. I don't consider myself a blogger. I'm a designer and it's my job to communicate. Writing here a little bit at a time improves my ability to do that. Read More »
February 21, 2011
It's with great excitement that I am announcing On Your Way Here, a series of interviews with designers focused on life experiences and decisions. Read More »
December 15, 2010
Extra time, who's really got it? And when we get it, what do we do with it? Me, I take classes.
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November 12, 2010
I launched a simple, one page website called I Can't Find My Phone. The idea is that if you've left your phone around your house and can't find it, just input the number into the website and it will call it for you. It was a site and a service that I wanted to use myself. It's not the only site out there that provides the service, but I was unhappy with how unattractive and littered with ads the other sites were. So I made my own. Read More »
October 12, 2010
As long as I can remember, I’ve been finding things and holding on to them. Sometimes for emotional attachment, somtimes aesthetic value, sometimes I'm not really sure why I still have something, but I just can't bring myself to toss it. Read More »
August 30, 2010
I've wanted to redesign my old site since the day it was launched and have been working on this site ever since. Today I finally get to share it with everyone else.
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May 01, 2010
Last weekend I went on an Urban Lettering Tour with Paul Shaw, organized through the Type Directors Club to take place in Greenwich Village and SOHO. The plan was to walk around and discuss the lettering on the buildings in the neighborhood. It was pouring rain that morning so we ended up deviating from the predetermined itinerary. There were about 20 of us in the tour and all were all deemed Super Dorks for walking around in the pouring rain, talking about type. Read More »
March 30, 2010
A discussion was started the other day with a few co-workers about hanging punctuation. I proposed that bullets and quotation marks be hung in the margins—a lesson learned from my mentor and with help of Robert Bringhurst, whose The Elements of Typographic Style book I keep on my desk at home at all times. In defense of my point, I quickly pointed them to Mark Bolton's Five Simple Steps to Better Typography series. Read More »
February 15, 2010
Designing for the web often serves a different purpose, and can have it's advantages over designing for print. We trade paper alignment headaches for browser rendering migraines and color swatches for the hexadecimal system. But what gets lost in translation? There are a few traditions that have been around long before cascading style sheets that are still missing on the web. Read More »
January 19, 2010
FML or Fuck My Life: a statement announcing your negative attitude towards life. What's the beef? Read More »
January 09, 2010
What is the social etiquette for sitting next to someone on a plane, bus or a train? On the east coast we are used to living practically on top each other, especially
in New York City. Our days are filled with near interactions. Walking down a crowded sidewalk, brushing shoulders with strangers; sitting on the subway next to people without saying a word; or being half-naked, doing hot yoga a foot away from someone you've never made eye contact with. Read More »
January 02, 2010
I know for many 2009 will not be remembered as a great end to the first decade of the millennium, but I've got to say, it was pretty good to me. In the past year, I managed to gain responsibility at a great job (that started as an internship), be encouraged by my professors to finish up my college career by taking a different and valuable internship opportunity (and actually listening to them), move from Boston to New York City, get a fantastic job with an incredible company, and all the while keeping close to the people that are most important to me. Read More »
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