Author Archives: vanshea

  Nodine’s Smokehouse. The above smokehouse has amazing food. I tried some the other day and it blew my mind. What makes me even more enthralled is that they have a ultra simple ..HTML table based..GASP website. Why do they need more? Sure they could have something “slick”, something responsive, something with even a better [...]

I love drawing on whiteboards, but sometimes that medium is too modern. Sometimes the feel of graphite or charcoal reminds me that what I do requires a lot of my art school basics. With the invention of tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator I was very threatened as an art school student, I felt as [...]

I've been working on a concept that I haven't seen in many websites..it's a bit of a mini experience. Maybe it's a bad idea, but if it is-it's an original bad idea. I'm pretty sure of it.  If the stakeholders and other key people don't like it, don't love it. I know for certain that [...]

I've been thinking about a certain design today a lot more than actually moving pixels or creating prototypes. I've been working intently, making calculated Changes instead of just changes. When I consider all the requirements, understand and believe in the business goals, get great content, I get to take the time to create something that makes sense, something that I believe in [...]

I don't always like to listen, I like to be listened to and I like to be right.  This is a problem for any chance at real personal or professional growth, not to mention team collaboration in either realm. To act against this shortcoming, I organize dinners where "creatives" get together and talk over what we [...]

Art and design and drawing are all the same thing to me: Playtime I need to have more playtime, less think time, less strategy, more experimentation. Everytime I explore that side of myself with sketches, venturing into a museum or hiking up a hill, it's like opening a release valve.  Like exercising some kind of corporate demon.  I love [...]