This week’s submission is a little fan art to Diablo 3 which was released this week. Having put in roughly 5 hours with the new game, it is definitely everything we’ve been hyping for years now. Obviously all of the launch issues the game had weren’t pleasant, but they are well behind us now and only fiendishly good times are ahead. I was obsessed with the Diablo game series when …
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Week 5 of the 21 Weeks Challenge This week’s post is a brochure design I did for non-profit in Chicago that provides education to kids in Ghana. They do some amazing work out there educating kids and giving them the tools they need to succeed. Let’s just say that they responded quite positively to the design. Brochure images of the cover and inside panels.

Week 4 of the 21 Weeks Challenge This past couple of weeks has been hectic to say the least. I was gone for almost a 1/2 week in Disney World and recently moved into a new apartment. During the chaos, I thought I would throw up something hand-drawn for the challenge. I really miss drawing. It’s the reason I became a designer and I secretly long to find a way …
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Week 3 of the 21 Weeks Challenge is down below. I’ve had quite a few teachers who have had a major influence on my life. For some odd reason, teachers catch a bad rep for being overpaid, lazy, and incompetent which is usually the results of a few rotten apples spoiling the tree. Add in the comically low salary figures of teachers and you start to see why being a …
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Here is the 21 Weeks Challenge second week’s piece. A commercial interruption brought to you by…cuteness.

Here is the 21 Weeks Challenge first image.

Ever since leaving my former day job as a freelancer to join the nine-to-fivers, I’ve found that I need more promising projects. Projects that I can devote my time on that will be more than financially fulfilling. Freelancing never worked out the way I expected it to – I had hoped to work with clients and businesses creating great work that would enhance the lives of their customers and make …
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An article I read recently advised UX designers – both new and old – to put their 10,000 hours of work in before starting their own business. It’s not just work experience, but experience getting projects off the ground, executed, and implemented. And the advice, while aimed at the UX field, felt relevant to any creative field. And I sorta have to agree with it. Don’t get me wrong, there …
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I’m excited to announce a new chapter in my life. I’ve started work as a full-time Senior Interactive Designer at Liquidus Marketing in Chicago. They are a video-advertising tech company with a host of products for making interactive digital ads. I’m mostly excited for this job as it’s a great chance for me to grow as an interactive designer by working with UX masterminds, developers, and tech-savvy geeks. I will …
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As a lustful work-hungry Junior Designer I spent an absurd amount of time searching for a perfect job – one that fulfilled quite a laundry list of demands; superstar award winning-work, satisfyingly beneficial for human kind and my soft fragile ego, short (or normal) work hours, basic benefits, fun co-workers (digital, animal, or both) and etc. And over the past 4 or so years I’ve been on the hunt looking …
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For the past few weeks I’ve been pondering a new method of interacting and working with clients. For the most part, a design project is a lot of back-and-forth between clients and the designer to get to a solution that makes everyone happy. That solution usually involves compromise, which frequently occurs on the designer’s behalf since the client controls the purse strings. That compromise can vary from being mildly acceptable …
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Once in a while I get the urge to clean house. And this isn’t your ordinary house clean, no sir, let me tell you this is one of those moments when you look at old photos from college and decide if they’re worth keeping on your desk or if they’re going into storage. Do you hang onto memories of the past or clear them away for new ones? Much like …
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