This post was written by Jason on September 30, 2010

A few years ago, in my infancy as a designer, I would have never thought I’d be where I am today. I got excited creating logos. I was creating business cards and letterheads. I made some sweet brochure designs, and, yes, some basic HTML websites.

My how things have changed. I haven’t designed a business card in over two years. I haven’t actually worked on any printed designs for that matter. I spend my days working in Photoshop and staring at code for hours, trying to debug that damned pixel misalignment in IE6. In recent years I’ve labeled myself a “web designer”. continue reading…

This post was written by David on September 13, 2010

I have a great memory for faces. Yet, I’ve worked on projects with clients and team members that I couldn’t point out in an empty restaurant. It’s not that I’m going senile; I’ve never seen their faces.  I’m a web designer and, like many web designers, the people I work with are frequently scattered all over the country.  However, this style of working didn’t fully prepare me for working with a development team in Chennai, India. continue reading…

This post was written by Josh on July 6, 2010

Our team has just begun using a neat, but powerful little program called Arq. Arq is a simple backup application developed by Haystack Software, which runs in the background and automatically keeps versions of folders you point it too. It’s similar to Time Machine in that regard, however the biggest differentiator is that it backs your files up to the cloud via Amazon’s S3. Additionally, Arq allows multiple computers to utilize the same S3 instance, which means my team and I can all share work files effortlessly. continue reading…

This post was written by Josh on May 7, 2010

NOTE: I wrote this entry while in the NICU hospital room shortly after my second daughter’s birth. There’s a lot of down time with a baby that sleeps 20 hours a day…

The faucet in our hospital room in the NICU is aesthetically very pleasing. It is sleek and the absence of nobs, buttons or handles definitely adds to it’s minimalist form. It is essentially the simplest form of a faucet. I place my hands under it and water comes out, cold at first and then warm. I remove my hands and the water ceases to flow. Perfect right? Not exactly…
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