http://sideofsauce.com Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:58:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://sideofsauce.com/art-design/the-devil-of-the-details/ When I was young, I was an obsessive journaler. I had very little to write about then other than a less-than-ideal home life, the occasional heart-wrenching teenage crush and my smaller-than-a-thimble view of the world erected within the confines of my own backyard. I now (ostensibly) have much more to ... http://sideofsauce.com/rants/looking-back/ wordle.net This is mine. Created from my Delicious tags. http://sideofsauce.com/uncategorized/the-worlds-most-beautiful-tag-cloud/ I am not sure why, but somehow this new year feels like a fresh start -- a giant step beyond the adversity of the past two years of my life. I suppose things could have been worse (they can always be worse), but I won't lie and say that it ... http://sideofsauce.com/rants/goodbye-2007-and-dont-let-the-door-hit-you-in-the-ass-on-the-way-out/ I became a vegetarian during my freshman year of college. The transition from meat-eater to herbivore didn’t happen gradually, but rather all at once when in my freshman year Biology class I was presented with a frog and my very own mini-guillotine with which to dispense of my frog. I ... http://sideofsauce.com/rants/who-likes-chocolate-chip-cookies-anyway/ 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 ... http://sideofsauce.com/art-design/icon-illustration-and-the-gradient-mesh-tool/ 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! http://sideofsauce.com/art-design/design-blog-lickable/ I have been on a quest to improve the seo (search engine optimization) of my site and I found out that there are a few simple things you can do to really make a difference in your traffic. 1) Sign up for Google analytics -- it is free and it is ... http://sideofsauce.com/tech/talking-to-search-engines/ 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 ... http://sideofsauce.com/art-design/t-shirt-illustration/ A few weeks ago I had one of the coolest dining experiences -- through a fortuitous affiliation of friends of friends I was invited to eat dinner at Quince restaurant at the Chef's table. I had never heard of a chef's table before, but apparently quite a few restaurants have ... http://sideofsauce.com/culinary/quince/