making stuff

For 2008, I resolved to become a more creative person. My project: make something new with each phase of the moon.

I wrote about my initial motivation in detail here. Otherwise, I suggest you poke around. Each entry has something special to offer.

Farewell 2008

1 January 09

Year end wrap up.

Circles and squares on canvas

21 December 08

The canvas tag discovered. I make more shapes and patterns.

Reimagining Digital Numbers

15 December 08

Experimenting with geometic forms.

Aarc Pattern with jQuery

2 December 08

Make your own semi-circle squiggly design thingy.

Wavey CSS Pattern

24 November 08

Another HTML/CSS experiment. If I had another couple days, this would all be in jQuery.

Cuteyface Icon

8 November 08

Fun little illustration for my web presence

jQuery faux-3D Viewport

14 October 08

A proof of concept for a simple 3D effect using everyone's favorite Javascript library.

Aloha Gig Poster

26 September 08

Stretching my limits in Photoshop while trying to keep my eyesight.

Been Busy

14 September 08

Illustration, blog template, logo work, possible Textpattern re-design, and some of my own typography

The Grey King book cover

9 August 08

Illustrator design project.

Drop Logos

3 August 08

Logo experiment and sketches.

Serifa Type Specimen

17 July 08

Expressive exhibit for a fabulous slab-serif font.

Cut Out K

30 June 08

Experimenting with positive and negative space with typography.

June Lightning

10 June 08

No words this time.

Rosslyn Geometric Type Design

27 May 08

Designing a typeface using simple shapes.

Let's Meet in Rosslyn

21 May 08

A family of geometric fonts.

Font Sketches

15 May 08

Before I start clicking away on Fontstruct, I play around with an idea right on the paper.

Eastern Market Photo Shoot

4 May 08

I hope you like produce.

Gothic Font Structions

30 April 08

Gothic-inspired fonts created using the sublime tools at FontStruct.

Emporclo Textpattern Admin Theme

22 April 08

Nearly-imageless CSS replacement for the Textpattern admin backend.

Font structions

14 April 08

Fontstructions are easy and addictive. I spent my week stamping out these custom made fonts.

Firsts with the SLR

6 April 08

The first shots taken with my new camera. Portraits, low-lighting, macro shots.

Aarc Pattern

30 March 08

Design created by rotating tiles with arcs.

Bottle Cap Color Space

20 March 08

I had to do something with that jar of bottle caps.

The S Curve Tempest

17 March 08

A study of geometry within typography. Skipping right to the hardest lesson.

Treetops

6 March 08

Now the sapling is growing. Video of branches stretching in detail.

Tree Levels

27 February 08

Growing a tree of my own using a recursive tree structure, like a fractal.

hsl09d

19 February 08

Completion of my psuedo-3D Hue/Saturation/Lightness color picker. It actually works!

hsl07b

13 February 08

Big leaps in the production of a HSL color picker.

hsl04

7 February 08

My first baby steps with Processing. A color picker, that doesn't pick anything for the moment.

Saturday afternoon at National Gallery

2 February 08

Photo collage taken from the Smithsonian National Gallery in Washington DC.

One-Handed Card Deck Cuts

24 January 08

Simple website that uses a javascript to hide and show sections. Showing off my card skillz.

Top 40 Jumbles

20 January 08

These simple pop-culture word jumbles are a chance to build CSS skills for me

Textwave

7 January 08

My reasoning behind the New Moon project. Very hard to read, but nice to look at in a Gestalt sense.

2008 Resolutions

31 December 07

Introduction to the New Moon project. A to-do list.