Last Friday I had the excellent opportunity to talk to interactive industry colleagues about something near and dear to my liver heart – homebrewing. I served five kinds of homebrew to warm up the crowd, then dropped an amazing 17 minutes of blabbing about beer on their unwitting ears. People were kind enough to laugh at my dorky jokes, too! What nice folks we have in Portland. … more
Posted May 28, 2009When 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 there would be a job for me in this “new media” field. What I did know is that visual communication was exciting, I enjoyed tinkering around with HTML, and I was pretty good at learning new technologies. … more
Posted April 20, 2008I always wanted to be a teacher. Ok, not always, since I also wanted to be a ninja or a breakdancer. But starting in high school and going in to college, the plan was to be an English teacher. Since turning into a designer, I’ve either wanted to go to graduate school or teach. I only want to go to grad school when work stops being challenging and fun, but the idea of teaching sticks with me even when work is busy and exciting. … more
Posted June 12, 2007