Sun, Jan 22, 2012 – 21:00
A couple of my projects have gone live now! Snackstick.com, for which I set the design style, is live. Kerstin did all the implementation and a lot of the refining of the design, and we both worked on rewriting their copy text to be a little more marketing-oriented and a little less home-grown. I like [...]
Between the holidays and my departure from work as of tomorrow, things have been very quiet for me at Accuraty lately. I’ve been working on a new logo for them, which is quite exciting even though I’m leaving right away. Getting art direction from Aclewe while I was working there on the TEAMGOLD logo definitely [...]
We got an assignment at work in October to make a new website for the Illinois Green Business Association, which went live just last week. I was excited to be assigned to this since I’m interested in working with more humanitarian projects through work, and since they’re young energetic professionals who were willing to listen [...]
I spent a little time this week looking through some past projects, and came across a design that didn’t get used, although I was quite fond of it. I realized I could put it to use as a series of iPhone/iPod 960×640 wallpapers based around a series of philosophical principles that are important to me [...]
A while ago I set up a WordPress theme for Peggy’s mom, Catherine Schmidt-Jones, who is working on a music Ph.D. As part of her degree she’s been continuing her music education outreach that she’s been doing on Connexions by running a blog, Opening Measures, as a forum to discuss issues in music and open [...]
Thu, Sep 29, 2011 – 18:19
I spent most of the summer working on this website for the new Champaign-Urbana area apartment listing website, RentPPL.com. The “fun” part was wrestling with the database software our client was using and retrieving the data from that so it would display correctly on the website, but we finally got the thing live. It still [...]
Tue, Sep 27, 2011 – 13:41
In August I was working on a project for work… At this point my boss pointed out it would be hard to recognize it as a lightsaber if you’re not a Star Wars geek. I was sort of disappointed at this point that the project specs changed, because I really liked the idea of using [...]
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 – 17:00
The servers at work may have gone down for an hour or two this afternoon leaving me with little to work on. So I made this doodle instead. :D I still love the stroke width tool.
A few weeks ago I started part-time at Accuraty Solutions in downtown Champaign. It’s been going well, although many days fluctuate between “wondering what I should be doing” and “frustration with the usability of our CMS” as I learn how to help with updating our web projects. Thankfully the senior designer actually likes web programming [...]
Wed, Jun 15, 2011 – 19:11
Recently I got hired by a local web shop for some part time web design and programming work. It’s not as glamorous as some things in the industry, but it will help me pay the bills, get web experience in an office (since apparently even with a reasonable portfolio, you still need office experience), and [...]
