Air Conditioned Igloo

Air-Conditioned Igloo I’m not a climate change denier. Eskimos have had 50 words for snow. Probably not as much need for all of them these days.

Octospiderpus

Octospiderpus Plain and simply, or suddenly and enigmatically, some thoughts come out of the blue with no amount of process or methodology. Many books document this mysterious and almost magical occurrence. Perhaps I was killing a spider for my wife while the Discovery channel played a documentary about ocean creatures. Whatever the subconscious reason, I […]

Seinfeld-Mifflin

Seinfeld-Mifflin Comic books and graphic novels have always been labeled as “low-brow art” from “prestigious” art schools and art history books. An undeserving term since they are incredibly hard to create. What more fun exploration of the format than blending the two best sitcoms of all time into a storyboard medium. Comic format for comic […]

Vladimir Putin

Giddy Up, Horsie After usurping control of a country, hours of manly judo, and secretly poisoning my enemies (KGB-style), I find nothing more relaxing than riding my carousel pony, says autocratic modern-day dictator Vladimir Putin.

The Current State of Interactive Design

The Current State of Interactive Design Design patterns, UI kits, standards, low cognitive load, statistics, trends, blah blah blah. Sure, I get why all these things are “best practices”–damn I hate that phrase–but there is currently zero originality or creativity in the world of interactive design. All anyone seems to do anymore is copy every […]

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come.” I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of […]

Jesus Selfie

Jesus Selfie I know, I know–your’re offended. Does it help that my intent was not to provoke anger or imply blasphemy? I only thought that this might be the ultimate selfie. I usually naturally gravitate towards symbolic work and was also interested in this more situational approach. This does bring to mind the old debate […]

Suicide Giraffe

Suicide Giraffe Most design comes from having a specific problem that you purposefully set out to solve. That intentional thought-sequence leads to choices of imagery, type, colors, position, and styles all working towards meaning. I still don’t know where the idea for quips like this originate—seemingly out of nowhere. My best guess is that I […]

Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen A tribute to my brightest guitar star. One of the primary reasons for my love of music, and the carrot dangling in front of my wagon as I crawl forward on this guitar journey. Will I ever be able to play “Eruption”?

@#!$

@$!* As a UX designer it is imperative to create systems that are focused, useful, navigable, and understandable. As a user, however, it becomes obvious very often that this falls short. This exaggeration evokes those frustrations. Secondarily, there is some interest in pushing past the same (now already trite) overused interactive layouts that work very […]