Twilight

Twilight has now been added to the Sketchpad. I think I like this piece better as a still, but it is what it is.

Phoenix

This was a going to be a bit different than it turn out, but it has made it's way into the Sketchpad.

Two new updates to the Sketchpad

I just posted one new piece Stellar Cast, a Flash and Motion Design, and added to Halo, my solid shapes project.

Phoenix from Aviary

I've given up hoping for an Early bird invitation from Aviary but their software does look promising. The Aviary blog has a sneak peak video up.

ally is now up

Just added ally to the Sketchpad, yes, yes, yet another graphic build, but that's what's I like.

"December" Update

Just posted a blog template I did a little while back titled December to the Sketchpad. It's a very simple design, dark but clean.

sorry

Originally titled Golden Boy, but I thought that was a little pretentious, and
Golden Girl just brought up memories of white haired women on day time television, this piece is sorry.

Be Bright

I just published my latest work shine to the Sketchpad. Another graphical build using hight contrasts, done in Photoshop, Motion and Flash.

October

I decided to do a seasonal piece, an autumn piece. In the spirit of Halloween, leaves, and the third season done in Photoshop and Motion.

Everything

I just added to the Sketchpad, a graphic build named Everything, I'm pretty happy with it, it's a lot smoother than some others. Halo has also been updated with a new circular colors.

Halo added to Sketchpad

Just posted a project I've recently been working on. It's a study of circular shapes and colorful backgrounds. There is five pieces in the series, I will be adding to this as time goes on, it should be a fun exercise.

Halo

Time to rethink the Sketches

I've been adding more and more into the Sketchpad portion of my site lately and It's about at the point where some sense can be made of how it's shaping up. So far I can see the growing list breaking into three categories:

1. Graphic builds, I really enjoy doing these
2. Websites
3. And Miscellaneous section where I can throw whatever I want into this section such as a component of a larger piece that I was only a part of or the 3D Chair example that is currently in the list.

This is something I need to put a little more thought into but I believe this is the direction the scribbling of the Sketchpad are headed.

Oh, and more updates, Flower, a graphic build, and a mock-up site for the Johnstown Chiefs.

Sketchpad Update

I just added outside of me to the Sketchpad. It's another small video build.



I have posting a lot more frequently lately and I have much more in the pipeline, another Flash piece and a couple website designs, so this is making me very happy, stay tuned.

METRO Design

I just some unsolicited mail from METROPOLIS magazine, a design mag, and was wondering if anyone read this publication? Email me if you think this is a good read.

Carnegie Mellon, Emergence Design Conference

I was asked by Eric Sloss over at CMU to mention that they are now hosting their second Emergence Design Conference. The ticket price is absurd, especially when you consider the money their sponsors are putting up, but I guess you need to fund raise anyway you can and the actual event and topics sound very interesting. Here's the press release.

Carnegie Mellon School of Design Hosts Second Annual Conference on Service Design, Sept. 7-9

Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design will host its second annual Emergence Design Conference, Sept. 7-9 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. The conference focuses on emerging themes and practices in design.

"By the end of 2007, services will make up more than 75 percent of the United States economy, and European countries are experiencing similar growth," said Shelley Evenson, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the School of Design. "There is little doubt that in the past few years, there has been an increasing shift from a focus on goods to a focus on services. From person-to-person, person-to-machine and machine-to-machine interactions, Emergence 2007 will explore the boundaries of service design and bring together visionaries ‹ the educators and professionals that will shape our experiences in the future."

All facets of the economy have a service component, and Emergence 2007 will explore how the different design disciplines ‹graphic, product, interaction and organizational ‹ work together to create the tangible and intangible artifacts of services. The conference will address methods of designing services; how businesses can benefit from the increased value of a well-designed service; the impact that economies, technology, people's needs and social trends have on service design; and how to further define this emerging field. Emergence 2007 will also provide insights on current service design practices, business opportunities in service design, the technology behind service design and service design's future outlook.

Emergence 2007 will include original presentations of academic projects as well as commercial and social case studies from around the world. Keynote speakers include Chris Downs, managing partner at live|work, Bettina von Kupsch, head of customer experience management at Swisscom Mobile, and Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas from the IBM Research Visual Communication Lab.

Downs' initiatives have been critical in defining, building and expanding the field of service design. He will discuss how his work leverages services that provide social and ecological sustainability. Von Kupsch will address Swisscom's comprehensive program to create a superior and consistent customer service experience, covering factual service and the human service experience as well as the emotional and social customer experience. Wattenberg and Viegas will give a joint lecture on their Many Eyes project, a public service of visual literacy, which aims to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis.

For more information, and to register for this year's conference, please visit: http://www.design.cmu.edu/emergence.

Sketchpad

Just a quick note that I update Sketchpad today. Searing Grove is a photo and graphic video build down in Motion and Photoshop. Id Gang is a website design.

EDIT: I ended up put a couple other in there too.

Cinematic
Model Chair