Yesterday, I launched the new Noble Rot restaurant website after ten months of starts and stops, false re-starts, menu updates, and technical challenges. Throughout the process I worked closely with Kimberly Bernosky, co-owner of Noble Rot, to create a site that communicated her vision of the restaurant. The site is designed to match the rich, [...]

I’m not normally the adventure-seeking type, but when our rafting guide suggested that I “ride the bull” for my birthday this weekend, I couldn’t really find fault with the idea. That’s me on the front of the raft, holding on tightly in case the river consumes me, throwing the f*ck yeah horns high in the [...]

When I was in the first grade, I was a Brownie. I remember two things clearly about that time: Brownie Camp and selling Girl Scout cookies. My grandparents were in town during cookie season that year and purchased an entire suitcase full of cookies! Cut to 25 years later when OakTree Digital asked me to [...]

Since I don’t have kids, I had no idea that there were hair salons just for children, let alone really cool salons that have taxi-cab seats, awesome toys, games, and all kinds of things for kids to do when getting a hair cut. But I sure learned a lot when we at Happy, Inc. were [...]

When I decided I wanted to be a designer, I was going out on a limb. The year was 1997, and I’d just completed my bachelor’s degree in English, had no design experience, and had only created one (very hideous) web site. Back then, Amazon.com was still in its infancy and I wasn’t even sure [...]

I used to be a bus commuter. It was better than trying to drive to work in bumper-to-bumper traffic then have to pay for parking, and at least I could read while I sat (or stood) in a cramped bus. Depending on where I worked at the time, my commute took from 30 – 60 [...]

The smell of freshly mown grass, softball practice in a downpour, growing seedlings, hail on your picnic, budding trees, sunny days, puppies, kittens, and rainbows. Spring is here in Portland! What better reason for a fresh new Muxtape? Get it while it’s hot!
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When was the last time you said that to someone? Remember making mix tapes in high school, maybe even in college? Break up tapes, I have a crush on you tapes, a tape of Alphaville’s “Forever Young” repeated over and over… Then you used the photocopier to make fancy covers for you tapes, gave them [...]

We started working with Hawksview Estate six years ago when the luxury estate on the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands was still being built. The owners wanted to rent the villa for a few week each year, and needed a website to showcase the stunning home they were building. We designed [...]