All the departments needed to know how large their ads and artwork could be.

Smart phones didn’t exist yet

It was made to fit in a 520px wide Facebook tab. Because that was a thing. Then I left the website live for OVER A DECADE! So embarrassing.

I sort of miss painstakingly hand-crafting sprites to cut down on HTTP calls and make your website whip-snap fast.

I made unnecessarily complicated flow charts for my church

The blue stripes in the background. The Eminem loops that I hacked off of Eminem’s website. 15 portfolio pieces. 100% FLASH! Animated smoke. Totally superfluous cursor-tracker at the bottom. Drop-shadows. This is when my love affair with Thesis Sans intersected with Trade Gothic Bold #20.

Sometimes you get so sick of #b0000 that when you get the chance to design the corporate intranet, you go absolutely nuts with color.

I had a moment in my early 20’s when I would rather jump off of a building than put the headline at the top of the page

I recall that it was really important to find a way to mix old & new, analog & digital in the same piece.

I don’t think I have a finished version of this, but it was so much fun to draw!

Oh man, you don’t even want to know how many hours I spent doing technical illustrations of light poles in college.

The engineers nearly staged a revolt when I told them their camera had to be blue and have rounded corners. This was long before Apple taught the world about industrial design.

I shouldn’t look through my old portfolio while I am drinking. I made this for a non-profit while I was in college. They loved it. It was my best effort at pretending I was David Carson.