Well the inevitable finally happened. I was working in a nice contract gig until last week. Business started to slow down and of course being the only contractor there, I was the first to unceremoniously get the axe. I figured it would happen sooner or later for reasons I will not discuss. I even took [...]

As usual I have lots of big plans. One of them as I mentioned before is to revamp my site. One thing I dislike about my site now is how long the url is.  At eleven characters, in my opinon its pretty bloated and unreadable, especially when you want to send me an email. So, [...]

I’m always keeping an eye out for trends especially when it comes to web design. Lately I’ve been noticing something very interesting. There is something that almost all of the really “new age” sites have in common nowadays stylistically. Go to sites like Flickr, Twitter, Digg, Vimeo, or Facebook and and you’ll see what I’m [...]

Wow, has it really been almost a month since I’ve posted on my blog? I knew it had been a while, but I had no idea it’s been this long! Things have been so crazy lately that I just haven’t had the free time to add much content. Not much has changed since June. I’m [...]

Back in the day I used to think about what interviewing and working for a design job would be like. I would always picture a real laid back agency with bean bag chairs (I don’t know why I always pictured bean bag chairs…), a wide open studio with lots of Macs and expensive equipment. [...]

Wow, I’ve really neglected my shiny new blog.  Well, I guess it’s not so new any more, but it sure is shiny.  It’s just been a crazy couple of weeks.  I graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell on May 31st. To commemorate, I bought myself a huge LCD television that gave me days of fun [...]

Years ago, I came up with a short story about a turtle who likes to take photos. I’ve been experimenting with several different mediums to try and illustrate this story, but overall it’s never been completed. I really haven’t had the free time to work on it while in school. I tried to [...]

I came up with this technique when I was creating Photoshop templates at work which called for all sorts of different colored buttons. Typically before this, I created buttons the usual way, combining transparencies with gradients and other elements, and that worked out fine for a few different buttons, but what if you had to [...]

This is my first article ever! I feel like I’ve just finished a really slow marathon. I’m finally done with my blog-folio site. This project has been going off and on for about six months. It began as a simple portfolio site that I could use when applying for jobs. As [...]