My site is now responsive. The more I work with flexible images & grids and media queries, the more I appreciate what can be achieved. Any apprehension I may have had about whether or not a responsive approach would harmonize with my design sensibilities and Paravel’s workflow was erased while working on the redesign of The Do Lectures website. We didn’t have to overhaul our process, were able... Read more
Trophy Barbershop is a magical place. With wild game stuffed & mounted on the walls, leopard skin chairs, and scrappy old tattooed barbers slinging shears, it was the place in Baytown, TX, to get your standard-issue bowl haircut when I was growing up. My barber’s name was Randall Ashby. I loved being there, sitting on my booster seat and listening to stories while Randall feigned interest in my own.... Read more
The work you take on can define you—it’s what you practice, what you get recognized for, and what you’ll be hired to do next. I recently had a nice sum up the year chat with Frank Chimero. We talked about important things like tacos, paying bills, and how what we work on affects not only our bank accounts, but our careers and lives in general. I like to think... Read more
Lettering.js was built to solve a problem. As web typography improves, web designers want the same level of control print designers have. Just as we’ve moved beyond Helvetica and Times New Roman, we’ve begun to think about web type in finer detail than <h1> or <span> tags currently (semantically) allow. For example, when Dave Rupert and I prepared to markup the 3 sites for the Lost World’s Fairs... Read more
I love being one-third of Paravel. I don’t know how other web shops work, but I do know that I like how we roll. It’s taken some hard work to build the team as well as the company, but I wouldn’t trade all the psds, lines of code and fisticuffs for anything. With that in mind, I thought a brief, selective glance over the past few years might be... Read more
IE9 public beta is here, and I’ve had the fair fortune to be recruited by The Friends of Mighty to showcase its support for the Web Open Font Format (WOFF). A while back, Jason Santa Maria called to see if I’d be interested in joining him on a team with Frank Chimero & Naz Hamid. After confirming my participation, as well as the fact that this wasn’t a... Read more
