New website coming

It’s been a while. I’ve since graduated and began my life as a freelancer.

You’ll see the fruits of the past 4 months pretty soon. I’ve had about a project per month and I’m just finishing up two of them. Once they’re done, I’ll be sure to post them.

Two of my projects have been some web work. I’ve learned a lot of new web skills in the past 6 months and have decided to my own host and start a new blog. I’ll be either making a whole new theme from scratch or
basing it on another theme and heavily modifying it. The site will be grid-based and reflect my personality a little better. It will also be a better format for my portfolio (which has always been the focus). I hope to blog a little more, but it probably won’t be more than once a week. I may need to expand the focus in order to achieve this. We’ll see.

Anyway, here’s a preview of the new design:

Filed under: General, Graphic, Misc., My Work, Web

Adopt-a-multimedia journalist part 2

This weblog’s existence can be credited to Bryan Murley, my Multimedia Journalism professor at Eastern Illinois University. I say this because a weblog is a requirement of that class. As such, we (the students of the class) have a few requirements for our blogs. One of which is a final project entitled “Adopt-a-multimedia Journalism” where we choose a journalist in the field that is currently creating new media work (videos, Flash, Soundslides, etc.) and then we have to write a critique of their work. That said, I have chosen Amanda Cox of the New York Times and her work is amazing, so there will be inspirational value within. Avoid or flock to these posts as you see fit.

Filed under: Adopt-a-multimedia Journalist, General, Inspiration, Misc., Newspapers, School, Web

Fame and Fortune

Earlier this morning I was mentioned on the Charles Apple blog. Charles must be an early riser because I was unaware of this until 9:30 a.m. when my Communications Law professor, Dr. James Tidwell, congratulated me. So caught off guard, I had no idea what he was talking about until I did my daily visit to Mr. Apple’s blog. Since then I’ve received a number of congratulatory words from both students and professors.
To clear things up: Charles Apple asked for submissions for this post. He did not choose me, nor did I get nominated for something. He essentially offered free advertising and myself and 30 others took him up on the offer. Not to diminish the awesomeness of Charles’ mention, though, because the publicity for a Midwestern college student such as myself is extremely helpful.

The second reason for this post (the fortune part) is that I was offered and officially accepted the job of Managing Editor of The Daily Eastern News (Eastern Illinois’ student newspaper). I will take the position in the Fall under editor in chief Tyler Angelo.

Note: The Charles Apple post (probably) didn’t influence Tyler’s choice and yes, my ego is as the picture shows.

Filed under: Misc., My Work, School, Web

Scott Hansen gives his impressions of “Objectified”

I loved Gary Hustwit’s “Helvetica.”  The way Hustwit interweaved the history of modernism and graphic design into a discussion about a single typeface was purely brilliant. His new film,  “Objectified” sounds like it is all I hoped it would be. Plus, who doesn’t want another film where people just talk about straight design?

As with Helvetica, what is said about the chosen arena of (industrial) design can really apply to all design fields. Discussions of utility, objectivity, and efficiency come up regardless of whether or not you work on paper or in steel. The film is really about design thinking and the creativity designers bring to whatever problem they are solving.

via ISO50 Blog – The Blog of Scott Hansen » Blog Archive » Objectified – San Francisco Premier.

Filed under: General, Graphic, Misc., Movie, Objectified