http://mynameisjay.com Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:25:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://mynameisjay.com/2008/design/i-hate-web-squatters/ 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 ... http://mynameisjay.com/2008/design/matte-is-the-new-shine/ 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 ... http://mynameisjay.com/2008/design/this-is-getting-old/ 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 ... http://mynameisjay.com/2008/design/if-you-want-a-design-job-you-may-want-to-read-this/ 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 ... http://mynameisjay.com/2008/apple/im-officially-an-apple-developer/ 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 ... http://mynameisjay.com/2008/design/upcoming-project-what-about-hubert/ 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 ... http://mynameisjay.com/2008/design/tutorial-a-clean-reusable-web-20-shine/ So this past Thursday was Portfolio Night in Boston. It was basically a seminar that takes place simultaneously all over the world where designers get to meet with some of the top agencies around the area. The creative directors from roughly twenty or so of these companies critiques ... http://mynameisjay.com/2008/miscellaneous/portfolio-night/ I love working in design. Sometimes I wonder if I’d appreciate it it so much had I not worked other jobs before hand. Before this, I did what a lot of people my age do. I took up jobs in retail. My first retail job was ... http://mynameisjay.com/2008/apple/one-bad-apple/ 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 ... http://mynameisjay.com/2008/design/this-has-been-a-long-process/