Jordan Smith, the owner of Smith Lawn and Landscape in Mankato, came to me with the idea of a total re-design for his website towards the end of January. He was looking for something clean, simple and professional, and his current website just wasn’t doing it for him. Here’s what we’ve accomplished so far, along with a few things I’ve learned during this project.Continue reading…
11 January 2013 
Highlighting Apple’s Most Serious Problem
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If you know me, you know I enjoy using Apple’s products. Whether it be the iPhone, iMac, iPad, iRefrigerator… I find the simplicity and elegance to be a breath of fresh air after exclusively working on PCs for the first 18 years of my life. I do have one major issue with all of my iDevices however.
7 November 2012 
Common Dimensions for Graphics in Social Media
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I often find myself repeatedly searching for the dimensions to common graphics used on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. I’ve decided to end this pattern by compiling a definitive list on my blog that I will update frequently. I hope you find this useful! Be sure to let me know about any I’m missing so I can add them for future use.
29 October 2012 
The Mistake of Being Meta
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I was recently listening to a Top 40 radio station and realized something. I couldn’t relate to any of the music. Why? Almost all of the songs were about life as a Top 40 artist. They sing about money, partying, clubbing, drinking, sex, and… their songs. Bridgit Mendler says it best, “I like your face, do you like my song?” Top 40 artists are not the only, or first, offenders, however.
16 October 2012 
We Demand a Font Manager
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One of the most unintuitive systems I have to deal with daily is the font section of any program. A list may have been fine for Microsoft Word back when there were about twenty fonts to choose from, but things have changed. New fonts are being created every day. Three hundred fonts, and all I have is this stinking list.
11 October 2012 
Poster: Fall Fun Fair
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I recently volunteered to create a poster for a new event at my church called the Fall Fun Fair. We’re inviting the community to come hang out with us, play a few games, enjoy some food, and more. I’ve developed a funnel method to focus marketing for events like this. Here’s my thought process…
26 September 2012 
You Aren’t That Great (Yet)
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Oh, you’ve read fifty books and follow hundreds of blogs? That’s nice. But here’s the thing. Other people who know more than you wrote those. If you followed a tutorial to create your most recent project… somebody created that tutorial. Wait! Did you just say you have a bachelor’s degree? Somebody built that curriculum. Classes are built on past discoveries. So, how do you become great?
17 September 2012 
How I Get Things Done
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I recently read the book Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky. While I’d highly recommend that you read it, I know that you probably don’t have time. If this is so, then this is the perfect book for you! Catch-22?
14 September 2012 
Design In Politics
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This is a guest post by Matthias Leyrer. He is in charge of marketing at Otto’s Restaurant in New Ulm. You can follow him on Twitter and Google+.
How old are you? What was the first election you could vote in? Who was running? What do you remember about it? My first election was 2008; the election that swept the country by storm. A handsome, charismatic, charming junior senator from Illinois was up against, well, a crusty old dude. That’s how a lot of people viewed it anyway.
12 September 2012 
New Website: AHT Design
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As the Arabian Horse Times (AHT) Secretary of the Interior, it is my duty to streamline and redesign all of our websites. This includes AHT-Design.com, the website for our design department. Here’s what it looked liked before.
