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  1. 11 Mar


    The MIE Coffee House is an annual event that celebrates the creative talents of engineering students. This year marks the 5th anniversary of the event and I was commissioned to create the posters, invites, and programs for it.

    The MIE Coffee House is an annual event that celebrates the creative talents of engineering students.

    This year marks the 5th anniversary of the event and I was commissioned to create the posters, invites, and programs for it.

     

  2. 25 Jan


    A friend introduced me to a game called “King of Tokyo” last week and although it started out being very confusing, it intensified as it went along. The object of the game is to be the last giant mutant monster standing OR to be the first one to get to 20 stars.One of the rules of the game is that you can’t heal in Tokyo. So if you roll the dice and you get a “heart”, but you’re inside Tokyo - you can’t use that heart to get health points. I went ahead and made a T-shirt for it. Hopefully getting this screen-printed shortly!

    A friend introduced me to a game called “King of Tokyo” last week and although it started out being very confusing, it intensified as it went along. The object of the game is to be the last giant mutant monster standing OR to be the first one to get to 20 stars.

    One of the rules of the game is that you can’t heal in Tokyo. So if you roll the dice and you get a “heart”, but you’re inside Tokyo - you can’t use that heart to get health points.

    I went ahead and made a T-shirt for it. Hopefully getting this screen-printed shortly!

     

  3. 25 Jan


    Rebranding 7/11 in Sweden: using elements of the country’s postwar identity.

    Rebranding 7/11 in Sweden: using elements of the country’s postwar identity.

     

  4. 16 Jan


    In case the disabled “Tweet” button wasn’t enough, Twitter now highlights every character you type after 140.

    It also colors Twitter handles and hashtags blue (or whatever color you’ve picked on your profile) as you type it.

    Fun! 

     

  5. 10 Nov


    A bike rack that’s not an obstacle when not pinned to a bike. Brilliant. Image via Hazel Borys on Pinterest.

    A bike rack that’s not an obstacle when not pinned to a bike. Brilliant. Image via Hazel Borys on Pinterest.

     

  6. 4 Nov


    Letterpress is a free iOS word game app by Loren Brichter of atebits.com. It’s clean and simple and has beautiful transitions and animations. You get a 5x5 square of words and you get to pick and choose any tile to make a word that you then get to submit. Considering I’ve been playing Scramble with Friends for much too long (so I’m a word game junkie, sue me) and I’m much too proud to make use of the pre-game tutorial, I initially only selected tiles that were right next to each other. Bad move.  GOOD: The game screen gets rid of your title bar, allowing you to utilize your entire screen. The word tiles are big and uses two very distinct colors for the two players’ tiles. The transitions are beautiful. It’s fluid, it doesn’t jam, it doesn’t give me spinning beach balls or death. BAD: The How-To is made up almost entirely of words. I would’ve expected more visuals for so visual a game. When you make a long word, it squeezes in the tiles and makes it look awful. A better option would’ve been to make them proportionally smaller. Granted, it may reduce legibility, but given that the tiles aren’t that small to begin with and that there is ample screen space, I think it would work.

    Letterpress is a free iOS word game app by Loren Brichter of atebits.com. It’s clean and simple and has beautiful transitions and animations.

    You get a 5x5 square of words and you get to pick and choose any tile to make a word that you then get to submit. Considering I’ve been playing Scramble with Friends for much too long (so I’m a word game junkie, sue me) and I’m much too proud to make use of the pre-game tutorial, I initially only selected tiles that were right next to each other. Bad move. 

    GOOD:

    The game screen gets rid of your title bar, allowing you to utilize your entire screen.

    The word tiles are big and uses two very distinct colors for the two players’ tiles.

    The transitions are beautiful. It’s fluid, it doesn’t jam, it doesn’t give me spinning beach balls or death.

    BAD:

    The How-To is made up almost entirely of words. I would’ve expected more visuals for so visual a game.

    When you make a long word, it squeezes in the tiles and makes it look awful. A better option would’ve been to make them proportionally smaller. Granted, it may reduce legibility, but given that the tiles aren’t that small to begin with and that there is ample screen space, I think it would work.

     

  7. 10 Jul



    Nature doesn’t put the wrong colors together. Nature is purposeful and beautiful. Everything you see out there is perfectly designed for its current purpose. Each leaf, flower, tree, and blade of grass is a true example of iterative design. Millions and millions of iterations.
    —  Jason Fried (37signals) on external influences
     

  8. 28 Jun


    Can we please take a minute to appreciate how beautiful the #Euro2012 page on Twitter looks?

    Can we please take a minute to appreciate how beautiful the #Euro2012 page on Twitter looks?

     

  9. 13 Jun



    Disqus 2012

    So the new Disqus came out today and it’s kinda hard to go on any social media network without seeing glimpses of it. Disqus is a commenting system for websites. It’s pretty great. I like the brand and I like the folks who run it. It’s a practical product that keeps it simple.

    The new Disqus came with a revamped website with an embedded tutorial. Not only is it clever in that it includes fake comments from Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe, it’s interactive too! So little tool tips crop up to prompt you to interact with it. It’s teaching in the most natural way - through curiosity.

     

  10. 29 May


    Somebody set the designers loose on the Unfuddle Sign-in page. But there’s no need to panic! The rest of the site is still stuck in the 90’s.

    Somebody set the designers loose on the Unfuddle Sign-in page. But there’s no need to panic! The rest of the site is still stuck in the 90’s.