May 20, 2011

From the Fires of Hell (Infographic)

See the abridged version on CRACKED.com

From the Fires of Hell: The World's Hottest Peppers Christopher Columbus named peppers ‹peppers › Only badasses eat peppers Peppers get their hotness from capsaicinoids Why do animals willingly eat peppers? Spiciness is just a highly efficient way to tell mammals to back the fuck off. Presumably, before the Scoville test, pepper heat was measured through more subjective methods Scoville heat scale: increasing pain. The Cracked.com Pepper Scale: bell pepper, jalapeño The Cracked.com Pepper Scale: habanero, red savina habanero, and naga jolokia The Cracked.com Pepper Scale: naga viper, trinidad scorpion butch t Ring of fire, fiery seed dispersal

See the abridged version on CRACKED.com

UPDATE [FEB 2012]: The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion is now the world's hottest pepper; it has a hotness of 2 million Scoville units.

Just typing this update caused my clothes to spontaneously combust.

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: