I have an Illustrator file full of vector icons, each on its own layer, that I use to keep all my little drawings in. They get reused a lot, so it's nice to have them all in one place. I figured someone out there might want to use them, so I stuck them up on SourceForge. Then I got yelled at for using SourceForge, so I moved them to GitHub. Click here to go to the files on Github! Now, mind you, the file contains a bunch of icons for companies that I did not draw, but use a lot. Not sure … [Read more...]

Okay, yes, it's true. I talk a lot on twitter about CodeGuard and the work I do for them. Why? Well, mostly because I like them. One of the reasons I like them so much is that I've done a lot of design work for them and I feel tremendously invested in their project as a result. In fact, I have openly promised to do bodily harm to any other creatives should they get near the CodeGuard team. I'm kidding, of course. Mostly. All I'm saying is if they got big enough to hire a creative … [Read more...]

One of my best and most favorite-est clients is local Atlanta startup CodeGuard. They're great people who have been really easy to work with while still challenging me. When they mentioned that they were interested in a new and different tee shirt design, I knew I wanted to do something cool. Now, I am a huge fan of MailChimp's designs and user experience. I took a short tour over there a few weeks ago, given by my friend Ron Lewis, their creative director. During that tour, I snagged some … [Read more...]

I spent some time this morning working on my friend Gregg Rothmeier's passion project, the ATL Beer List. I like the Google policy of spending 20% of an employees time on stuff they're interested in, so I try to work on projects like that myself. I also like beer. I mean I really, really like beer. Of course, I'm also interested in getting as much experience as I can working on designs for Ruby on Rails. I'm getting more and more familiar with how those projects work, I'm happy to say. … [Read more...]

Last week I spent a good amount of time on some logo design work. I'm proud of how they turned out, even though they didn't end up getting used. That's life in design! Click thumbnails to embiggen. I wanted to incorporate the italic "f" glyph like photographers do for F/stop notation, but I didn't want both F's to be that way. Also wanted to include a very simple icon idea, so that's where the idea of the camera body came from. Then just swapped a circle lens shape for something … [Read more...]

This is one of those projects that got all designed but never saw the light of day. Still, I think the design ended up being nice to look at. … [Read more...]