Featured project
San Antonio Botanical Gardens
The Volunteer Director at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens had a dedicated page promoting her program and encouraging people to donate their time and skills. But that page had problems, both technical and design. Missing images, malformed links and a lack of information structure resulted in an unappealing invitation to volunteer.
Websites
Whether it's code from scratch or design touch-ups, I've been involved in many websites over the years. Highlights include:
An information-rich site for journalism students
Journalists learn to write the most important news first. This website follows their lead.
Organization and visual appeal in one page
No layout. No photos. No working links. But this single page was far from blank.
The website checklist online service
I created a service for web designers that helps answer the question, what else needs doing?
Photo instruction,
blog & portfolio
How do you network a photographer? By designing a blog that integrates Flickr.
Portrait photographer website redesign
With little impact, an aging photo website needed a new plan, a new look, and a new CMS.
Assembly line
production process
Is it possible (and practical) to design a site per week?
New site on
a classic
CMS
How do you promote a premier school? With a new website design, new signage—and bumper stickers.
Designing
more than looks
What started as a face-lift became a design solution.
In-house revolution
What happens when you take a website design to black & white?Digital images
These experiments in Photoshop follow two rules: Use the same shape and spin on the same axis. Other than that, anything goes.
No layer effects, no blend modes. These layers focus on three colors as part of my make-it-simpler approach.
More recently I’ve been using simple shapes as steps to more complex forms. This one plays with different ways to cut circles from circles.
“Less is more,” applied. This one didn’t work until I stopped rotating the same shape before it reached 270°. Complete, it was a mess. Incomplete, it became complete.
Finding a shape that interacts with itself is tricky. Each mobius loop here is made of four objects, allowing shapes to pass through the center.
Unplanned, chaotic and created to live music. Look closely: Each bit of noise is the same thin ellipse.
Odd shapes lead to eye-catching patterns, including this one, which interacts with inverted copies of itself.
Earlier illustrations tried to create as much complexity as possible. Sometimes controlled collisions worked, but not often.
I was interested in the transition between primary and secondary colors—how one can outshine (yet rely on) another.
How many levels can a shape interact with itself? Two dimensions are easier than three, especially on a recursive grid.
Photography
Click the thumbnails to see each image at Flickr.
Zion National Park, Utah
Waitakere Ranges, New Zealand
Lake Taupo, New Zealand
Taranaki, New Zealand
Milford Sound, New Zealand
Planet Venus and forest fires at the Grand Canyon, Arizona
Mt. Egmont, New Zealand
Tutukaka lighthouse, New Zealand
Lost Maples, Texas
Lost Maples, Texas