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.

The Grey King book cover

Illustrator design project.

Drop Logos

Logo experiment and sketches.

Serifa Type Specimen

Expressive exhibit for a fabulous slab-serif font.

Cut Out K

Experimenting with positive and negative space with typography.

June Lightning

No words this time.

Rosslyn Geometric Type Design

Designing a typeface using simple shapes.

Let's Meet in Rosslyn

A family of geometric fonts.

Font Sketches

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

Eastern Market Photo Shoot

I hope you like produce.

Gothic Font Structions

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

Emporclo Textpattern Admin Theme

Nearly-imageless CSS replacement for the Textpattern admin backend.

Font structions

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

Firsts with the SLR

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

Aarc Pattern

Design created by rotating tiles with arcs.

Bottle Cap Color Space

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

The S Curve Tempest

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

Treetops

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

Tree Levels

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

hsl09d

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

hsl07b

Big leaps in the production of a HSL color picker.

hsl04

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

Saturday afternoon at National Gallery

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

One-Handed Card Deck Cuts

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

Top 40 Jumbles

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

Textwave

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

2008 Resolutions

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