Dig cartoons? Dig stuff? Then come see cartoons on stuff this Saturday, April 26th at the opening of my “Cartoon Commodities” show at Tatuit Studio in Portland. The show will feature my cartoon art laser-etched onto affordable, daily objects such as serving trays, wine glasses, cutting boards and coasters. These main attractions will be complimented by [...] Read this entry »
Want to narrow the distance between a compelling mock-up and a realized Web presence? Tired of compromising your vision to combat unforeseen challenges in layout, type, color, graphics and more? Wish your designs remained consistent browser-to-browser? If you answered yes to any of the questions above, you may be a control freak—and we can help. Join me [...] Read this entry »
Next Wednesday, I’ll be giving a presentation at DevGroup NW entitled This is Not a Graphic Design: Exposing the web’s unique challenges as opportunities for innovation. Since 1994, the DevGroup has provided a forum for developers to network, share knowledge and find out what’s happening in the Web, Multimedia and Interactive worlds. We’ll be taking a [...] Read this entry »
Music is undoubtedly the most visceral art form, constructed from patterns of vibrations which are interpreted by our eardrums as they penetrate our bones. While I believe most genres of music offer their own geniuses, breakthroughs and pitfalls, I am hopelessly intrigued by and entranced with the continually progressive (and just as self-referencing) genre of [...] Read this entry »
I was grinning ear-to-ear as I walked up to Sergio Aragonés at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, opened the souvenir book to a page of the Groo 25th Anniversary section and proudly proclaimed “I drew this.” Sergio was one of the first cartoonists I had been exposed to outside the traditional newspaper page, initially by my [...] Read this entry »
I have been absolutely bowled away by the gracious response to my Flash game Ramps, which debuted the same week as my new site and identity. So far, the game has received over 43,000 views here, with another 28,000 views on Newgrounds, over 7,000 views on deviantART and many more on at least 20 different [...] Read this entry »
Two weeks ago, I stood at a vantage point aptly labeled “Artist’s Peak” in Yellowstone National Park. I looked out over the winding water, following it backwards with my eyes to the magnificent, billowing waterfall rich with strokes of white and green. I saw the shape of it’s path, cut over millions of years [...] Read this entry »
I have a confession to make: I love web design minutiae. My Netvibes is full to the brim with feeds subscribing to every aspect of the ever-growing series of tubes, from upcoming document types undergoing constant revision to the latest means of thwarting Internet Explorer’s troubling box model. One of my favorite elements of this [...] Read this entry »