Nicholas Cristo

Fwd: New Site Look

Well, I’ve done it again. Here is the latest iteration of the site, redesigned and rebranded as Nicholas Cristo Creative. I’ve long sought to transform Nicholas-Cristo.com into a more substantial property, but with my recent interstate relocation and my upcoming wedding, my creative evolution came to fruition a bit slower than intended. But, here it [...]

Freelancing Do’s and Don’ts

I’ve been freelancing as a Graphic Designer and Web Developer for about four years or so now, and while I won’t claim to be a leading name in the field, I do consider myself a skilled professional. Freelancing isn’t my “day job” so to speak, and it isn’t something that I do actively, but when [...]

Android Mini-Collectible Figures

Google’s Android mobile platform has been in use in commercial phones since 2008, and has fast become a popular system for mobile web users and app developers. It also seems, dare I say, to have grown into the role of the long-fabled iPhone Killer. With the new Droid from Verizon and the latest Nexus One [...]

Visual Techniques with CSS and jQuery

For the past several years I’ve been perfecting my knowledge of HTML and CSS while learning more about dynamic coding languages such as PHP and Javascript, and lately I’ve been developing a further interest in augmenting my knowledge of CSS with jQuery. Modern web design has been making some major leaps and bounds lately, especially [...]

15 Photoshop Tutorials for the Web

Here is a pretty nice collection of links with Photoshop tutorials for web design. There are some great guidelines with some pretty good looking outcomes. I’m fairly partial to the Magic Night design, mainly because it reminds me of Disneyland, and since moving away from California I’ve been having some pretty bad Magic Kingdom withdrawals. [...]

Re: New Site Look

Back in November I updated my site theme with the Bomberfish update, but a couple of weeks ago I started making some new updates and some rather significant changes, which compose the latest build of the theme, Blasterfish. The Bomberfish build was focused more on reintegrating the blog aspect back into the site, which had shifted [...]

Guts: Inspiration for 01/29/10

I’d like to spotlight the website of Nottingham, UK designer Simon Collison, Colly.com. It is his personal website, with a full journal, biography, and writings on various design-related topics, and it is all executed in a very unique way. In his article, Redesigning the undesigned, Simon (or Colly, as he is known) talks about the [...]

The Friday Fontlight: 01/29/10

Many thanks to Abduzeedo and their Friday Fresh Free Fonts feature, in which this week they feature a handful of great fonts, particularly my favorites Lane and New Athena Unicode. I am personally a fan of great typography, and as a designer I am always looking for fresh new fonts to use in my projects, [...]

Recipe: Baked Meatballs

Prep Time: 20 min Cook Time: 20 min Level: Easy Serves: 20 meatballs, 4 to 5 servings Recipe courtesy Alton brown, 2005.

New Site Look

I’ve worked up some changes to the site recently, which I’ve implemented this morning, which include a new blog column, with recent post links and additional categories, as well as a larger listing of work samples on the front page. I’ve been using this same ‘dark wood’ theme that I created from scratch for about [...]