Sketchcast Review

A recent comment led me to Sketchcast.com, a tool that allows you to draw and record what you’re drawing, with the idea that the visualizations can help you communicate your ideas. As a designer who is always open to new methods of visualization and...

Microsoft Silverlight Competition Very Lame

On Friday I went to Microsoft’s Express Yourself event in San Francisco. Five design firms competed to solve a “real-world design problem” using Microsoft’s new Silverlight technology and Expression Suite of design tools. Silverlight is the...

Busy and Blog Broke

The end of the semester sucked up all my time. And while that was going on, my comments got corrupted. When I tried fixing that late one night (or early one morning, depending on your perspective), I only succeeded in breaking the site more so that I could not access...

Brief Update

I finished my resume, but it’s not online. It was sent to companies that will be coming to the school of design’s job fair. Also, I have yet to update my online portfolio. I hope to find time to do that soon. But I don’t know when I’ll find...

Fitwits

Before the Thanksgiving break, Kristin Hughes, who is currently teaching my graduate typography class, asked me to help her put up a placeholder website for Fitwits. I don’t really know what it is: I didn’t have time to ask. But I built it, and thought it...

Blinksale Integrates Basecamp

Two services that think are very useful for any small business, Blinksale and Basecamp, are now integrated. And it appears this is only the first round: Soon we’ll be adding support for Basecamp projects and time-tracking, creating the ultimate one-two punch:...