The Labs

Welcome to the labs where you'll find information on past, present, and future projects as well as the occasional download and blog post. I'm always trying new things, so watch here for new updates and other (slightly?) interesting things.

Built

Enjoybuilt

A showcase and interview gallery to share the ideas behind the visuals. December 2009.

Market Theme

Market Theme

A unique developed custom frontend and backend ecommerce solution, all running on Wordpress.

Devlounge

Devlounge

A design and development resource featuring original articles and tutorials as well as interviews with experienced industry professionals.

Google Rolling Out Gigabit Internet (0) February 10th, 2010

The big news making its way around the web today thanks to Google. In an announcement much more exciting to me than yesterdays news about Google Buzz, Google is preparing to test gigabit fiber internet for selected communities. It is an interesting move but one that many expected to eventually occur. Even Google themselves hinted [...]

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January Revisited (0) January 30th, 2010

This year at the end of each month (or beginning of the next) I’ll be providing a run down of the the past months activities. This means of summary of all the work I’ve completed (even non-portfolio stuff), favorite music of the month, favorite sites, and whatever else I may feel like including on a [...]

January 2010 - Revisited

Week One (0) January 30th, 2010

This past week was a busy one. On Monday I headed back to class for the first time in essentially six weeks, with my mid-semester break finally coming to an end. In between time in class I managed to re-tweak the site design (again) in what I hope to be my only redesign of the [...]

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Dollars and Sense (0) January 21st, 2010

More and more these days so called designers are charging slightly more than the price for a happy meal to design (and many times even code) entire sites. At the end of last year while redesigning my portfolio for 2010 I also made a number of philosophy based changes, and increasing the general cost of [...]

Dollars and Sense: Rethinking Things

Dive In: A Logo Exploration (1) January 20th, 2010

A few days ago I finally broke and got a Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch tablet. I’ve wanted a tablet for some time because I have always felt I’m decent at freehand drawing (of some things at least). I’m still getting used to it but it is allowing me to dive into a new design [...]

A Logo Exploration
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