May 3, 2011

Redesigning a Terrible Site

Here is my proposal for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's website. As some of you may know, the current website is designed like a horrendous piece of crap.
[UPDATE 8-11-2012: Cal Poly website no longer a horrendous piece of crap.]

I made some major organizational and aesthetic changes:

Cal Poly Home page
Cal Poly Events page Cal Poly Admissions page

Want to see the handy, dandy UX guide? Check it out here!

April 25, 2011

Robert Burton Music

My friend, Robert Burton, makes awesome music. He just launched a shiny new website, which you should definitely check out:

http://robertburtonmusic.com Robert Burton Music

Give his stuff a listen! (...and check out the gradients. I put all those gradients in there.)

April 15, 2011

The Killer Whale: Biggest Badass in the Animal Kingdom (revised edition)

the killer whale size comparison the great white shark kill those whales! sea lions are cute that's right! OH MY GOD!

When I first posted this infographic on my blog, I made some embarrassing factual mistakes. Fortunately, since very few people actually view these blog posts, I was able to avoid spreading incorrect information all over the internet.

A few months later, when the infographic ran on Cracked.com, I had not amended my mistakes and hundreds of thousands of internet users were exposed to false information! In an effort to make up for the negative effects of my terrible, shoddy research, I created this definitive, factual (probably) edition of The Killer Whale: Biggest Badass in the Animal Kingdom. Enjoy.

March 22, 2011

The Tell-Tale Heart book design

Look what I made...

This is my hand-bound, typographically expressive edition of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. The binding looks absolutely atrocious now, but I managed to take decent photos of the nicer spreads:

February 14, 2011

Singles Awareness

Well, February 14th is here again. Many people will note that today is Valentine's Day— an annual celebration of uninhibited hallmark romance. But for many of us, February 14th marks the occurrence of another, more somber holiday known as Singles Awareness Day.

American Singles are those tasty slices of cheese that your mom used to put in your grilled cheese sandwiches as a kid. Yeah, those same grilled cheese sandwiches you used to gobble down with a cool glass of refreshing milk...you loved that shit!

mmmmm...grilled cheese
Grilled cheese sandwiches— more addictive than crack.

...except American Singles are not really slices of genuine cheese; they are thin, strangely-textured slices of 'cheese product'.

Seriously, read the package:


Always read the package.

While real cheddar is an ingredient used to make American Singles, these little golden counterfeits are not technically cheese. So those grilled cheese sandwiches you ate as a kid...those were actually grilled cheese product sandwiches.

That's right, Santa Claus wasn't the only thing your parents were lying to you about.

grilled cheese product sandwich
Your childhood was a lie. A warm, toasty, cheese-less lie.