Well, I’ve finally done it. I doodled a panda, and I placed it on my site. It was bound to happen; I already have panda avatars on most sites, pandas on my printer, a panda on my keyring, I even turned my calendar to the one month that has a panda. And don’t even get me started on the pandas that populate the desktops of my iMac and my Macbook. If anything, however, at least I was able to just sit and have some fun with gradients and the other goodies in Illustrator.

And now I have this. A small experiment I did while procrastinating further updates to my site’s scheme and layout, and while searching for ideas for what to do with the site footer, which I wanted to redo. On an unrelated note, however, I do have something I’ve been pondering. Read more »

One of the biggest sins our society has made is its creation of lies. Lies and slander, even, concerning the educational system in particular. We tell our students that they are preparing themselves for life by getting their college degree, and that by getting this slip of paper after four years of work they will be able to step out immediately into the real world. Just check out the University of California sites – their way of enticing students to pay a higher price for their education is to show very exceptional students who are being hired right out of school.

The problem I have with this is my own experience. I have already learned for myself that the world does not work this way. Part of why I have chosen to attend college in a field other than design is that I know that yes the degree helps, but I also know that design is a very difficult field to enter into, especially without a very strong resume. Read more »

The past few months have been absolutely amazing. I can’t really describe it any better than that; I realize I haven’t updated in quite a time, but part of this is because the passage of time has absolutely flown by.

I realized today that I was never able to update my portfolio. Well, that’s okay; I did get caught up in one or two other projects I was working on, admittedly.

The last few days, the weather has been almost perfect. We’ve had some rain storms, and a few times the power lines have come down. I read some statistic that Sacramento has more trees per square inch than people, so I find this all right; the longest we had was one that lasted for a few hours. It definitely beat out Louisiana, which had weeks and weeks of power outages at a time. Read more »

Apparently, many of the items from my portfolio appear to have disappeared from the Internet.

No matters. I will be working overtime this week and weekend to upload the screenshots which I kept of the designs in order to keep the completeness of the portfolio.

This is why it is always important to keep samples of work, even if one thinks that the domain will last forever

It feels strange changing the header on my emails, but that’s what this week has turned into: change.

This week, I am moving six hundred miles away from Las Vegas, Nevada, into the city of Sacramento, California, in part to further my education in software engineering (I am learning this to further my programming skills; I will still be designing) as well as to look into more design-type jobs.

While Las Vegas has plenty of jobs in my area of expertise, I am looking forward to the change. It is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and now that I finally have the opportunity, I’ve definitely become terribly excited over it. I will be leaving Las Vegas Thursday morning and stopping in Fresno for the night, and then continuing onward and upwards to Sacramento the following Friday morning. Read more »