The Devil of the Details
I am a big proponent of the motto if something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. It is a creed that has informed all of the work that I do. Good design is made up of a lot of little, seemingly unimportant details, that coalesce to make something truly beautiful. However, there is […]
Icon Illustration and the Gradient Mesh Tool
I have been working more with the gradient mesh tool to create some detailed icons for the Sharpcast Desktop application. The mesh tool is a great way to get more realistic looking gradients. Until recently I drew most of my icons in Illustrator and then added complex gradients in Photoshop making it kind of impossible […]
Design Blog: Lickable.
I have always wanted to launch a design blog and finally, that day is here! Please visit my new design blog, Lickable for all the latest design objects and news!
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T-shirt Illustration
When my friend and former colleague Audrey Roy left her job we talked briefly about doing some illustration projects together. It never quite got off the ground until last weekend when we spent the whole day drawing. We plan to create enough illustrations between the two of us to launch a site where we will […]
Post Hack-a-thon
I am still mildly recovering from my all-nighter on Thursday/Friday. You know you are getting old when staying up for 34 hours, once merely a challegning feat, is now a catastrophic event. I went home on friday and slept through until 9 am the following morning.
All in all it was a pretty great experience. I […]
Hack Day Highlights: 5:18 am
It is 5:18 am and if you know me at all, you certainly know that I would never be up at such an ungodly hour, unless of course I never went to sleep. A week or so ago Sharpcast announced that it was going to have its first ever Hack Day. For those who […]
Zen and the Art of Wheel Throwing
Zen and the Art of Wheel Throwing
Wheel throwing might be one of the most frustrating activities I have ever engaged in. Like so many things in life, it looks simply effortless when you are standing there watching someone else throw a perfectly proportioned vase out of a lump of wet clay, but when you sit […]
All Things Inconsiderate
On the eve of my 30th birthday I find myself learning lessons I should have learned a long time ago.
I have a new rule. My new rule is that I do not work for friends. Working for friends is like lending your brother money or discussing politics with your extremely conservative best friend; you […]
Hummingbird!
Sharpcast announced a sister product to its already existing photos software. The new files product will do everything Sharpcast Photos does — sync across the web/PC/Mac/Mobile device and automatically back it all up.The product was nicknamed Hummingbird this weekend in a fit of creativity by Sharpcast CEO, Gibu Thomas. I had exactly an hour to […]
Icon-licious
Sharpcast Desktop Organizer gets an icon make-over.
Over the past year and change I have been refining my icon creation skills. Making icons is deceptively difficult and time consuming, but there is something rewarding about drawing on a pixel level only to zoom out and see that the whole creation has depth and complexity.
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