At long last, here it is—my portfolio page. It’s not perfect yet, but it’s better than nothing. Also, it’ll be good to get some feedback on it, so if you have any suggestions leave a comment here. If you run into any issues or behaviors that seem to be bugs, describe them and tell me what operating system you run and which browser you use. It’ll make this troubleshooting deal much easier for me.
Lest you think I’ve been sitting on my ass this entire time here’s a preview of the totally rad portfolio I’ve been making. I can’t tell you much yet, except that it contains imagery and text.
Shhh … I’ve already said too much.
Things keeping me from finishing include a 20+ page thesis paper, the thesis project itself and senior show planning. I also need to make business cards, a physical portfolio, copies of my resumé to hand out at the show, prints of 2-dimensional work to hang at the show and a couple edits to some 3-dimensional work for that same all-consuming show. The show is my life.
My theme got reset. I wonder how long that was going on before I noticed it?
P.S. Eagle-eyed viewers may find a clue to something I’d like to accomplish in this image.
At 2pm on Sunday I met with Brandon Oxendine, Ellen Dykes, Geoff Buell and Cameron Bunce to screen print the posters for the Illustration & Graphic Design Show. It was a 12 hour process and man-oh-man was it worth it.
Brandon and I recently took on some freelance work in the name of helping pay for our senior show. The first of these projects to be completed is GPS For Today, a blog about GPS devices run by Brandon’s very own brother-in-law.
We started this one together, then I took over for a while, with him giving me input (a workflow the two of us have been doing a lot lately). It’s built on top of Wordpress and based on the Thesis theme, which is both wonderful and terrifying all at once. Be sure to visit the website yourself: each page has a unique style (my favorite is the News section).
Here’s the before …
And the after …
I am not the first person to complain about Internet Explorer, so rather than detail it’s shortcomings I’m going to pose a question: Why is Microsoft so intent on propagating a browser that isn’t any good and—even worse—has noticeably harmed the web design community for years.
Last night I had a deadline to meet.
I was put in charge of coding a website for my class’s senior show. Brandon and I drew out the first sketches and he worked on finalizing the designs. Ben Jack is making a documentary about the process of making our poster. The trailer serves as our homepage and is on his Vimeo page. He also did all the photography for our class. The entire senior class chipped in and was incredibly helpful.
We had this project moving at a brisk pace but as always it came down to the very last second. Four of us—Brandon, Ben Jack, Geoff and I—made our final stand at Denny’s last night equipped with four Apple laptops and a basket of endless fries. We worked feverishly to bring everything together. Brandon delegated tasks and did last-minute design work, I coded at a furious pace, Ben Jack edited and uploaded video, and Geoff … well he was there rooting us on (and offering suggestions along the way). During the last few seconds, while I was still coding, Ben Jack took a couple screen grabs of the countdown to celebrate. As soon as it launched we tweeted in unison (because, oh man, we are dorks) and our waitress, who was amazing by the way, brought us shots of champagne (Sprite).
It was bizarre and glorious, and I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome or a more competent and interesting team to work with. It really was one of those moments that makes you extremely happy with where you are in life.
