Creative Graphic Design

jQuery Circle Navigation

I am working diligently on my final for my JavaScripting class. My idea for a final was to tackle something I never see online. Circle Navigation. Everything I come across online is the typical nav bar that is boring to say the least. My original idea was to have a spinning circle that rotates based on where you are on the site, but needing to use everything we learned in my JavaScript class in the final I switched to have different sections load when clicked on.

Be the center of your media content

In the world today where we are in love with our social media outlets like Facebook. A place to outwit your friends with some quote that you think shakes the ground people walk on or an image that will force at least a few 'lols'. Your latest Facebook status (which I am sure was 100% original) does not interest me. What does interest me is your connection with the media that you share.

Deception, Internet Style – Nickel and Dimmed by the Big Guys

The article reminds me of my early days on the interweb, it could have been I was a web rookie or maybe I have just become cynical over the years, but have you ever been to a website that your trying to download a file and you see a big download button right where you'd expect one to be. Only after you click on it do you realize it was just an ad for some useless website. Deceptive!

Web Design Projects Rolling In

Well I've gone from being a student from being a full blown web designer again in a matter of 2 weeks. 2 weeks ago I was only focusing on my school work. Since that time I have had 3 projects come in. 2 websites as well as a complete identity design for a friends restaurant.

Go Fork Yourself! Part 1- Restaurant Design and Brief

We all have passions and dreams. For some its design, for some its working out and eating healthy and for some its running your own business. Recently a great friend of mine, who has shown me everything I know about cooking, told me great news that he is opening his own restaurant and cafe.

Review of Web Design Psychology

If you haven't already figured out, I'm a big fan of web design. I also married a beautiful lady with a degree in psychology. So when I was reading one of my favorite blogs I came across an interesting article called "Web Design Psychology" by Brad at FinderMind. Read More After The CLICK!

Project Thumbnails

In my good ol' education of Web Design I was asked to mock up a few different ideas of a new web site I am designing. After studying a few competitors and the elements of design I made a few quick sketches on some graph paper. Here's a quick summary and ideas.

Experts are made, not born.

When I entered my Animation I class for the first day, back in 2010, my teacher told us that we could all be the most impressive Animators and could go far above and beyond everything he had accomplished. (Which would prove difficult since he animated the original McGruff anti-drug ads, you know, 'take a bite out of crime'.) He told us that the only thing we would have to do is spend 10,000 hours of conscious repetition animating and drawing. He told us that same theory would work across all types of professions and hobbies. 10,000 hours of doing, analyzing, evaluating and doing.

Design a Web Page (photoblog) – Paper to Photoshop

Most designers have a storm of ideas floating around their creative brains. Recently my freelance work has slowed down so it has given me the opportunity to work on a few personal projects that’s having been on the back burners for a while, stewing in my creative juices.

One of those personal projects just got pumped to the front of the range and it’s a photography website, based around a photoblog. There are a few reasons I wanted to start a new photoblog (had an old one, but the backend was crap) and I plan on turning this into more than just a photoblog, but a resource that fellow photography enthusiasts can...

Thirsty Mind Thursdays – Ant Scanner

Yeah, I know its not Thursday, but this was too good not to share. This guy, François Vautier, took a scanner and let ants invade. Over the course of five years he scanned the scanner once a week. Then compiled them into a time-laps and the end result is a mixture of tech, nature and grunge. Uniquely awesome!

This is a great example of someone thinking out of the box. Truly a unique video, I give it two HELL YESES. Now go give it a watch!