Kilroy Lives was about what people write in private. The concept was to collect bathroom graffiti and categorize it. All graffiti is to be categorized and tallied by location/city/state.
This was
OMG, I almost didn’t notice, who are these people on these phones?? They are users, or at least they are pretending to be for their photographer. This photo represents seven people (users) who have
After 2 years of development we are throwing a public bash for Zesty!
Â
Friday, November 30th, 20121045 6th AvenueSan Diego, CA 92101
Â
Expect drink and good times!
For an art history class, i put together a 3D typeface and wrote an essay on it. Unfortuntely that essay is not in my records, but i still have some nice images from the Unfortunately.
Dominique Houriet (oo-d-a) is our fellow building designer and friend. We are soon getting the final piece of our bar installed (oo-d-a calls it Bar Zesty). When Dominique adds beauty to Bar Zesty we
TL;DR: Following the Zesty Incubator program, Professor Justine Rapp PhD lets us host a focus group with Digital Marketing students. We discuss an array of topics from early experience with computers
These gentlemen in Norway time the google maps van perfectly and chase it down wearing goofy scuba gear!
Since it was published google had blanked out the men chasing the van in scuba gear.
Check is o
Bamboo was the most packaged and CMS I've created prior to Zesty. It had it's own analytics platform (which eventually lead to it's demise). The design was nice and clean. It had dynamic graphs using
The new opening title for the once ZombiesFire. Zombie Daze is fun and has two Zs in it's title, which is fitting. Daze is a fun word to play with! Title was drawn and rendered in a ER waiting room, s
Legos were a big part of my childhood. They enabled me to create endless ideas without getting new toys. Software and business are my adult legos.
I've always been an entrepreneur, in the early year
When browsing about the apple store about a month ago, I stumbled across a game that was featured called "Burn Zombies Burn". I felt that the name was too close to Zombies Burn, so i elected to stop w
Here is a sampling of the logo/icon work I created in 2011
Jeremiah Gardner's company and Zesty both had tents at large public event. We each had speaking spots on our respective studies. During Jeremiah's speech on branding, we offered up Zesty as
Today we are ever surrounded by digital interfaces. Digital interfaces are relativity new, and as a society we have yet to create standards to build them, let alone teach others to build them. Creatin
TL;DR: My Great Grandmother, Mildred (George) Brescia lived before cars were common and passed when everyone had a computer in their pocket. She raised a big family out of Seekonk Massachusetts and he
I had moved out to california end of summer in 2008, up until mid 2009 there wasn't much to document. Joey Nees had joined me end of 2009, many of the logos are a combo of our ideas with his final exe
Child-hood friend, Ben Tabor, is opening a co-op diner in new orleans called Common Diner. I threw together a logo for the dinner. Looks like the logo might not fly, but its a good one to post anyhow.
We are trying to gain sign-ups from new visitors
The product we are working with is Zesty. It's a bit more challenging because there are currently two ways into Zesty. One path leads the visitor
Here is a post outside of my standard realm of art and computers. Here are some fun thoughts to challenge current technologies that have been spinning in my head.
PropulsionUsing gasoline to cause con
5%!o(MISSING)f something is better than 100%!o(MISSING)f nothing.
2010 was a long, awesome, and crazy year. In the beginning of the year I had Joseph Nees still working with me in the new Jetscram off
You're reading the second article of from the Lean Brand Methodology series. Read about the session prior here: Branding a product with the Lean Brand Methodology.
Summing up the Competitio
Drawing the screens is a blast! I've continues to do so. This particular screen will come when a level is complete. You can see an area for stats, coins, days, a tweet button etc.
In the center
There is something about cracking a clove of garlic apart, that almost draws me to cook, just for the action of cracking. You snap of single pieces of the clove, press down on the clove with a flat bl
Sometime in July 2010 I had an urge for another attempt to design and develop a game. ZombiesFire! was the name. The concept started on a Plane ride home and came to fruition after 15 or so sketches i
Doug Hecht and Sarah Kotlova, from Digitaria, spoke at a Disruptive Thinkers event. After a presentation the group of viewers split into two, and each group had time to interview Sarah and Doug.
The Cloud is simply a metaphor that represents:Any data or services not stored or processed locally on a personal computer or server.You can see why the terminology is confusing because this literally
Summer in Sicily was a study abroad program run by UMass Dartmouth Professor Tony Miraglia. We lived in Messina off the coast of Reggio Calabria.
The experience was invaluable. Tony was forcing much n
Thinking about screen printing class helps me get through daily operational problem solving. Whether it is using a limited color palette, or writing a method or class, thinking about these items in tw
You want to understand your market as real living, breathing, feeling people. Not as targets, demographics or data. Targets, demographics, and data won't buy your product...people will.—Jeremia
I've seen major fallacies with business information during my career software consulting, which the business operators, even their "IT", is oblivious to. It's common that a business decides to host no
I remember my first web design project back in the early 2000s. We spent weeks going back and forth with clients, sketching wireframes on whiteboards, debating pixel placements, and arguing over butto
Information spread through print and television were the primary marketing channels to grow ventures from business to religion up until the internet became mainstream in the late 1990s. Since the inte
PHP first appeared in 1995. I wrote my first line of PHP in 2003. Today, this blog is delivered to you by layers and layers of PHP doing amazing things between the lines.
PHP is not going anywhereFace
Say hello to the fourth article of from the Lean Brand Methodology series. Read about the session prior here: The Emotional of Personas.
Getting to know your Personas
How do you get yo
This article covers how and why millennials differ from other generations when it comes sales/marketing and business management. It comes to the conclusion that transparency is key, millennials have a
The Call to Arms: Women Enter the Factory Floor
During World War II, an unprecedented shift occurred in American society. As millions of men deployed overseas to fight in the war, the nation faced a c
At the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Laura Franz taught Typography I. Janine Wong taught Typography III. Yoon Soo Lee taught Graphic Design III.
Being a mid-year transfer student fro
The Paper Bombs That Fell From the SkyDuring World War II, the United States military discovered that sometimes the most effective weapons weren't made of steel and explosives—they were made of pape
After writing an article about Millennials (Gen Y), I couldn't help but get my thoughts down about the next generation. This article covers their age range, why they are different, and what we can sta
Spring 2006 Marks the first semester at UMASSD as a visual design/letterform student. Prior to the transfer, I started my College Level education at Northeastern University studying Computer Science (
TL;DR: I'm a computer oriented person, but I've always keep a notebook handy for jotting down ideas or drawings. When I incorporated my first digital consulting business, I started using the notebook
I came home to Brittini sound asleep grasping an updating iphone 4 plugged into the wall. Sound asleep she is with a death grip on her phone. I wake her and say its ok, she says "whats happening to my
Imagine content used to convince the masses to sacrifice their wealth. It happened in U.S.A. in the 1930s, here’s how it went down.
The Setup: A Nation in Crisis
In 1933, America stood at the precip
Welcome to the fifth article of from the Lean Brand Methodology series. Read about the session prior here: Final Personas and Working Hypothesis
Personal Statements & Brand Hunting
Our fifth sess
The World's First Mass Media Platform
Long before Gutenberg's printing press revolutionized information distribution in 1440 CE, the Roman Empire had already mastered mass communication through an in
Marketing technology is growing and improving rapidly. These new technologies are disrupting traditional marketing services by reducing labor once required for IT management, implementa
A lot went wrong before we sat down on those orange stools and delivered our speech and product to the crowd. To start, the demographic of the crowd was not known, particularly because our s
The War of Currents
A dark story in the history of content wars where the live execution of an animal was spun and used to sway people in a mass marketing campaign.
In the late 1880s, two brilliant m
You didn't sign up for this. When you opened your laptop this morning, scrolled through your phone on the commute, or checked notifications during lunch, you probably didn't think: I'm entering a war
7lbs2ounces is a developing project that revolves around stories written by friend and war veteran Ben Tabor. Having been close to Tabor since elementary school, his stories were tough to bare; my goa
A little bit of the mootools arsenal and some css transistion makes for good fun with an animated gif as a background image on random spawning divs!
The Traditional Design Workflow is Becoming ObsoleteFor decades, digital teams have followed a predictable path: wireframe, design, quality assurance, development, more QA, and finally, publish. This
Fall 2007 upon my return from Sicily I felt like a new person. I was fortunate enough to swap out some mandatory design and drawing classes with a screen printing class and painting class with Profess
Transparency in the Age of AI-Assisted WritingIn the interest of full transparency, I want to share how artificial intelligence plays a role in creating the content you read here. This isn't about rep
I'm continuing to hand render the Zombie Daze game, it's a lot of fun. Posted here are a couple level renderings: swamp (which became rocky field), football field, forest, suburbs, and graveyard. Each
Beacons aren't working the way people think they would, or how they are sold to brands. Beacons advertising typically requires custom applications (like reward systems or loyalty programs) installed t
Kilroy Lives was about what people write in private. The concept was to collect bathroom graffiti and categorize it. All graffiti is to be categorized and tallied by location/city/state.
This was
OMG, I almost didn’t notice, who are these people on these phones?? They are users, or at least they are pretending to be for their photographer. This photo represents seven people (users) who have
After 2 years of development we are throwing a public bash for Zesty!
Â
Friday, November 30th, 20121045 6th AvenueSan Diego, CA 92101
Â
Expect drink and good times!
For an art history class, i put together a 3D typeface and wrote an essay on it. Unfortuntely that essay is not in my records, but i still have some nice images from the Unfortunately.
Dominique Houriet (oo-d-a) is our fellow building designer and friend. We are soon getting the final piece of our bar installed (oo-d-a calls it Bar Zesty). When Dominique adds beauty to Bar Zesty we
TL;DR: Following the Zesty Incubator program, Professor Justine Rapp PhD lets us host a focus group with Digital Marketing students. We discuss an array of topics from early experience with computers
These gentlemen in Norway time the google maps van perfectly and chase it down wearing goofy scuba gear!
Since it was published google had blanked out the men chasing the van in scuba gear.
Check is o
Bamboo was the most packaged and CMS I've created prior to Zesty. It had it's own analytics platform (which eventually lead to it's demise). The design was nice and clean. It had dynamic graphs using
The new opening title for the once ZombiesFire. Zombie Daze is fun and has two Zs in it's title, which is fitting. Daze is a fun word to play with! Title was drawn and rendered in a ER waiting room, s
Legos were a big part of my childhood. They enabled me to create endless ideas without getting new toys. Software and business are my adult legos.
I've always been an entrepreneur, in the early year
When browsing about the apple store about a month ago, I stumbled across a game that was featured called "Burn Zombies Burn". I felt that the name was too close to Zombies Burn, so i elected to stop w
Here is a sampling of the logo/icon work I created in 2011
Jeremiah Gardner's company and Zesty both had tents at large public event. We each had speaking spots on our respective studies. During Jeremiah's speech on branding, we offered up Zesty as
Today we are ever surrounded by digital interfaces. Digital interfaces are relativity new, and as a society we have yet to create standards to build them, let alone teach others to build them. Creatin
TL;DR: My Great Grandmother, Mildred (George) Brescia lived before cars were common and passed when everyone had a computer in their pocket. She raised a big family out of Seekonk Massachusetts and he
I had moved out to california end of summer in 2008, up until mid 2009 there wasn't much to document. Joey Nees had joined me end of 2009, many of the logos are a combo of our ideas with his final exe
Child-hood friend, Ben Tabor, is opening a co-op diner in new orleans called Common Diner. I threw together a logo for the dinner. Looks like the logo might not fly, but its a good one to post anyhow.
We are trying to gain sign-ups from new visitors
The product we are working with is Zesty. It's a bit more challenging because there are currently two ways into Zesty. One path leads the visitor
Here is a post outside of my standard realm of art and computers. Here are some fun thoughts to challenge current technologies that have been spinning in my head.
PropulsionUsing gasoline to cause con
5%!o(MISSING)f something is better than 100%!o(MISSING)f nothing.
2010 was a long, awesome, and crazy year. In the beginning of the year I had Joseph Nees still working with me in the new Jetscram off
You're reading the second article of from the Lean Brand Methodology series. Read about the session prior here: Branding a product with the Lean Brand Methodology.
Summing up the Competitio
Drawing the screens is a blast! I've continues to do so. This particular screen will come when a level is complete. You can see an area for stats, coins, days, a tweet button etc.
In the center
There is something about cracking a clove of garlic apart, that almost draws me to cook, just for the action of cracking. You snap of single pieces of the clove, press down on the clove with a flat bl
Sometime in July 2010 I had an urge for another attempt to design and develop a game. ZombiesFire! was the name. The concept started on a Plane ride home and came to fruition after 15 or so sketches i
Doug Hecht and Sarah Kotlova, from Digitaria, spoke at a Disruptive Thinkers event. After a presentation the group of viewers split into two, and each group had time to interview Sarah and Doug.
The Cloud is simply a metaphor that represents:Any data or services not stored or processed locally on a personal computer or server.You can see why the terminology is confusing because this literally
Summer in Sicily was a study abroad program run by UMass Dartmouth Professor Tony Miraglia. We lived in Messina off the coast of Reggio Calabria.
The experience was invaluable. Tony was forcing much n
Thinking about screen printing class helps me get through daily operational problem solving. Whether it is using a limited color palette, or writing a method or class, thinking about these items in tw
You want to understand your market as real living, breathing, feeling people. Not as targets, demographics or data. Targets, demographics, and data won't buy your product...people will.—Jeremia
I've seen major fallacies with business information during my career software consulting, which the business operators, even their "IT", is oblivious to. It's common that a business decides to host no
I remember my first web design project back in the early 2000s. We spent weeks going back and forth with clients, sketching wireframes on whiteboards, debating pixel placements, and arguing over butto
Information spread through print and television were the primary marketing channels to grow ventures from business to religion up until the internet became mainstream in the late 1990s. Since the inte
PHP first appeared in 1995. I wrote my first line of PHP in 2003. Today, this blog is delivered to you by layers and layers of PHP doing amazing things between the lines.
PHP is not going anywhereFace
Say hello to the fourth article of from the Lean Brand Methodology series. Read about the session prior here: The Emotional of Personas.
Getting to know your Personas
How do you get yo
This article covers how and why millennials differ from other generations when it comes sales/marketing and business management. It comes to the conclusion that transparency is key, millennials have a
The Call to Arms: Women Enter the Factory Floor
During World War II, an unprecedented shift occurred in American society. As millions of men deployed overseas to fight in the war, the nation faced a c
At the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Laura Franz taught Typography I. Janine Wong taught Typography III. Yoon Soo Lee taught Graphic Design III.
Being a mid-year transfer student fro
The Paper Bombs That Fell From the SkyDuring World War II, the United States military discovered that sometimes the most effective weapons weren't made of steel and explosives—they were made of pape
After writing an article about Millennials (Gen Y), I couldn't help but get my thoughts down about the next generation. This article covers their age range, why they are different, and what we can sta
Spring 2006 Marks the first semester at UMASSD as a visual design/letterform student. Prior to the transfer, I started my College Level education at Northeastern University studying Computer Science (
TL;DR: I'm a computer oriented person, but I've always keep a notebook handy for jotting down ideas or drawings. When I incorporated my first digital consulting business, I started using the notebook
I came home to Brittini sound asleep grasping an updating iphone 4 plugged into the wall. Sound asleep she is with a death grip on her phone. I wake her and say its ok, she says "whats happening to my
Imagine content used to convince the masses to sacrifice their wealth. It happened in U.S.A. in the 1930s, here’s how it went down.
The Setup: A Nation in Crisis
In 1933, America stood at the precip
Welcome to the fifth article of from the Lean Brand Methodology series. Read about the session prior here: Final Personas and Working Hypothesis
Personal Statements & Brand Hunting
Our fifth sess
The World's First Mass Media Platform
Long before Gutenberg's printing press revolutionized information distribution in 1440 CE, the Roman Empire had already mastered mass communication through an in
Marketing technology is growing and improving rapidly. These new technologies are disrupting traditional marketing services by reducing labor once required for IT management, implementa
A lot went wrong before we sat down on those orange stools and delivered our speech and product to the crowd. To start, the demographic of the crowd was not known, particularly because our s
The War of Currents
A dark story in the history of content wars where the live execution of an animal was spun and used to sway people in a mass marketing campaign.
In the late 1880s, two brilliant m
You didn't sign up for this. When you opened your laptop this morning, scrolled through your phone on the commute, or checked notifications during lunch, you probably didn't think: I'm entering a war
7lbs2ounces is a developing project that revolves around stories written by friend and war veteran Ben Tabor. Having been close to Tabor since elementary school, his stories were tough to bare; my goa
A little bit of the mootools arsenal and some css transistion makes for good fun with an animated gif as a background image on random spawning divs!
The Traditional Design Workflow is Becoming ObsoleteFor decades, digital teams have followed a predictable path: wireframe, design, quality assurance, development, more QA, and finally, publish. This
Fall 2007 upon my return from Sicily I felt like a new person. I was fortunate enough to swap out some mandatory design and drawing classes with a screen printing class and painting class with Profess
Transparency in the Age of AI-Assisted WritingIn the interest of full transparency, I want to share how artificial intelligence plays a role in creating the content you read here. This isn't about rep
I'm continuing to hand render the Zombie Daze game, it's a lot of fun. Posted here are a couple level renderings: swamp (which became rocky field), football field, forest, suburbs, and graveyard. Each
Beacons aren't working the way people think they would, or how they are sold to brands. Beacons advertising typically requires custom applications (like reward systems or loyalty programs) installed t