Design Questionnaire

I'm not sure why, but over the last few weeks I've gotten several requests from design students to do interviews. Since it seems to be a popular topic I figured I put up some questions I received yesterday along with my answers.

1. What skills/education did you acquire …

The Design Process Step by Step

Potential clients are often taken off guard when I tell them how much a new website design will cost. When they look through a portfolio they just see the finished design and not everything that went into creating it.

Seperating Cartoons from Content

Over the last couple months my writing has gone down quite a bit as I've spent more and more time drawing The Brads, my not so weekly comic strip. I've really enjoyed working on the comic, it's a fun outlet or my illustration. I've enjoyed it so much I've been working …

The Brads - @Twitter

The Brads - At the Conference

The Brads - Nigerian Scammers

Tutorial: How to draw Me, Dielman and a pig

Recently I had the privilege of writing a tutorial for VectorTuts. I walk you through how to ink and color a cartoon in Illustrator. Anyone can check out the full tutorial here, but if you have a subscription to the site you can download the fully editable final vector …

The Brads - Dinosaur

The Brads - In Need of Help

The Brads - On Vacation

The Evolution of the McCain Logo

I was catching up with all my Internet reading after being out this weekend and I had to check out what happened in the world of politics. I went to the McCain website to see if he had Palin's name on his logo and he didn't disappoint. It was pretty much what I …

The Brads - Conference Call

The Brads 4

The Bradz #3

Designers, Just Chill Out

A couple days ago someone looking for a graphic designer went to the local Craigslist page and posted this.

Looking for an in house web designer for an entertainment company. Low pay & Long hours - Some non-music related work as well. Some experience needed especially …

The Bradz #2

The Bradz #1

Pushing Back - Don't Make that Change

I had the chance to spend an afternoon working at Designing Interactive (D-I) this past week. It was a good time. Not the most productive afternoon, but sometimes a little unproductivity one day can bear fruit down the road.

I was chatting with a local developer working …

Don't Forget the Design Fundementals

To this day I still remember the very first project I did in my intro to graphic design class. We had to take a big piece of bristol board and write down the ten principals of design. I think ten is a bit lengthy, so here are the ones I like the best:

• Size …

Survey on the Adoption of Web Standards

Back in February a couple faculty members from Kent State came out to the Cleveland Web Standard's Association meeting. It was a crazy night. The topic was a business case for web standards and we had over 50 people rsvp for the meeting. Unfortunately it was February …