Back in college I felt like an oddball. Not only did I transfer from computer engineering, to electrical engineering technology, to general engineering, to graphic design… and finished with an art degree. Yep, just an art degree. BA-art. No focus. No speciality, just a whole crazy random spectrum of education. I wasn’t like any of … [Read more…]
Key word here is community. “A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” I was thrown back into reminiscing about “the good ole days” of the internet by my friend Chris Brogan‘s recent post about how blogging has changed in the past 17 years. I started blogging … [Read more…]
I’m just gonna come right out and say it. Remember back in the day when the only phones we had were plugged into the wall and were only as mobile as the length of that damn. curly. cord. that always would tangle up within itself. Gone are those days. As with our ability to assume … [Read more…]
Before starting my own business, I used to work in an agency setting. That agency had lots of big, corporate clients. There were several guidelines and rules that we followed, because they were the “industry standard” rules. Logo, top left. Search, top right. Search button says “go.” Two column layout. Two–or at most–three colors used … [Read more…]
Yeah, it sounds strange. But makes perfect sense if you think about it. Successfully fail will be a blog about creating stuff. Some stuff that works. Other stuff that doesn’t. Either outcome is irrelevant, because it’s not the end goal, just a step in the process. Lets work at embracing all the steps in the … [Read more…]