Design

A couple weeks ago my brother approached me to help him with building a website for Westport Rotary’s Lobster Fest. I obliged and helped build the site at: The Rotary’s Website. I started off by sketching a lobster in Paper: Then I started thinking, my goals in creating the site were: Provide more style than the standard rotary site Keep Westport Rotary looking professional, while still allowing the Lobster Fest to be fun Make the site clean and readable Use their Point of Sale (POS) system from Authorize.net In case they take it down, you can see it on my projects. For a look at where it started you can see the old page here. ...

I let you in on a little secret. Part of me wants to be a designer. I wish I could draw. I wish I could be very creative and be a professional creative. One problem, I’m really not that good. I saw this video on Youtube that gives me just a small ray of hope that maybe someday my skills will improve: Basically the gist of the video is that everyone goes through a phase of work that they know sucks. It takes years of practice to get past this phase and get to a point where we are good. My problem is that I spend so much time looking for perfect, when good enough will do.

I’m starting a new category, and while technically it should be called a typeface, I’m using fonts. I’m a fan of typography. I think all great designers are. I’m not a great designer, but I have aspirations of being a better one than I am now. Anyway, I see fonts that I enjoy I will be mentioning them here for documentation purposes and hopefully to help others. I recently ordered some boxer shorts from J. Crew. I received them and was caught by the typography on the belly-band. Here it is: ...

A lot of my posts recently have just been posts about interesting things I have read on other people’s websites. This is another one of those posts. I’ve been catching up on 43Folders.com recently and quite captured by Merlin Mann. Today I say his video on Creativity Patterns. This video changed my entire personal perspective, about myself and about my abilities at least for the day. He’s a great speaker and the concept is motivating. Check it out if you haven’t, and consider reading/watching more of Merlin if you have the time. ...