Creative Brief for Terry Southern

We’re developing a creative brief for one of our clients, Nile Southern (son of the well known writer Terry Southern) and I though it would be helpful to display our process thus far in nailing down something tangible. First off we had a meeting with our client (Nile) to learn about his needs and goals for the project. We then

Ajax Flickr Widget – WordPress

I recently wanted to have my Flickr photostream displayed in the sidebar of this site. I couldn’t find a simple widget that would display my photostream without having to hack a bunch of CSS to make it match my site, I also needed to photos to load in after site load because it’s a bit heavy on the images. I

Amazing Business Cards

SXSW is coming up sooner that I want it to and in preparation, I’m going to need a lot of business cards. In fact, I don’t just need a business card, I need a BUSINESS card. Something that people say to themselves, “haha, I remember that guy…” and also conveys the “I just don’t feel right throwing this business card

Facebook Unfriends

Could you not image a scenario where being able to “dislike” something would actually be helpful? I can. How about PR people? If I have a band and I start wearing fuzzy bunny costumes to all my shows I can immediately get a concrete response on the web. As opposed to getting fewer likes on my site then normal, I might

Death of the Div

So last night (it was late), there were a bunch of us sitting around after class just talking (we were rather loopy since we’d been sitting at the same table all day). At one point the conversation steers towards the <div> tag, Jon sketches up a sad faced <div> tag and proudly displays it to the rest of us. We all

Digital Upcycling

Darden (an instructor for BDW and project manager at mondo) brought up an interesting proposal about a week and a half ago. She wanted to do something with digital junk, but recycle it or modify it in a way that makes it more valuable to us than what it was before. She coined the term “Digital Upcycling”. She also gave

Who Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up?

Today in Joe Corr’s class we were asked to pick 3 examples of people who have our dream jobs. I chose: Chris Coyier – because he’s an expert (or at least considered by many to be an expert) but he’s also an innovator. Over the past 4 years I have been following his site and community as he created it.

Introduction to Boulder Digital Works

Great video about the grad program I’m currently enrolled in. Its a good explanation of what we do here: An Introduction to Boulder Digital Works from Boulder Digital Works.

Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds

I love clouds, I love wordle… When making up my resume…I decided to do a version in wordle just to see how it came out…turned out nicely IMO. I used the following words to describe me.

Flickr Plugin for WordPress

Recently I decided to take an ajax widget I made for a wedding website and turn it into a wordpress plugin. It turned out to be alot easier than I thought it would be! The plugin goes something like this: The user must specify some information in the backend, specifically a username from which to grab photos. When the page