I redesigned this site with the sole purpose of finding a relatively simple way of formatting and updating content. I feel like it’s been successful in that I’m able to add to my portfolio, add my resume, make updates fairly quickly and do all of these things from pretty much anywhere.

So, I was successful in that regard.

My second goal in redesigning this site was to overhaul my portfolio, and find a new job. That’s right, I’ll say it because it’s the truth. To find a new job. Once that goal was written out, it was factored in in all the decisions I made AFTER that.

Decisions I made:
• Should I write colloquailly or keep it professional?
• Should I include personal information e.g. pictures of my cat, which you can allready see PLENTY of on my flickr page, for those of you who are into cats.
• Should I include contact information on every page (yes, yes and yes.)
• What should I include from a content perspective.
• How many pages is TOO many. 5 to me seems good, although it’s an uneven number which makes me weary sometimes because of the imbalance of the whole thing.
• Should I blog? Should I have a journal? Do my potential employers REALLY want to know what I think of hot button issues? (Probably not.)

So I really struggled with including a blog, or journal on this site. Mainly because I want the content (portfolio, etc.) to speak for itself, and I don’t want you as a user to agree or disagree with a certain idea or belief I have and make a decision based on that.

All of those things aside, I realized something ELSE that would be a powerful argument for including a blog on this site. And that is because I’m able to write fairly well, why not include my opinions and thoughts related to the field that I’m in, graphic design.

Sure, you don’t want to hear anymore about the U.S. elections, Capital Punishment, the economy, immigration, or a whole slew of things that just drain you on a regular basis when they are broadcast on the news.

But we’re all designers, in one way or another, and that’s something that will never get old or tiring.

And since we all have opinions on pretty much everything under the sun, and last time I checked there wasn’t a cap on the amount of information you could generate, I thought I’d throw me well thought out, deliberate hat into the proverbial ring.

So you will find me only talking about very specific things on this blog. They will fall into 3 categories.

• Technology
• Design
• The Human Element

A breakdown of each:
Technology – This could be able anything, from the new Macbook Pros that are slated to come out to the use of brain wave enabled glasses to help blind people see.

Design – Anything and everything related to Graphic Design and/or Web Design from web standards, to textile design to book design to identities to environmental.

The Human Element – Anything related to humans, sociology, the impact of symbols on people, perceptions of reality based on traumatic experiences, etc.

These three overarching topics will give me enough to work on, without weighing in on things that won’t be able to be solved by me or you.

Still, it’s nice to get dialogue going on ANYTHING really.