Designing for Students
This fall, I decided it was high time to redesign lessons for my Intermediate Web Design class at Art Institute. Some of these same designs can be used with my classes at UC Davis as well. Although I...
View ArticleWordCamp Sacramento 2016
It has been almost two weeks since we wrapped up our second WordCamp Sacramento conference, and I am still thinking about it and basking in warmth of an awesome WordPress community here in Sacramento....
View ArticleGuide To Large Background Images
This is a lesson I have been meaning to put together for a while, and when I completed it last weekend, I was really pleased with it and excited about trying it with students last week. It is clear in...
View ArticleUnder Construction at Axis Gallery
For the month of March, 2017, I am participating in a group show at Axis Gallery. I joined this collective with two other artists, Nick Shepard and Ben Hunt at the beginning of this year. The three of...
View ArticleStudent Work – Gym Website
This project, created by my student, Marco Vasquez, is from a few years ago, but it remains in my list of favorites. In the Intermediate Web Design class at Art Institute, students dig further into...
View ArticleStudent Work – Restaurant Website
One of the projects I have done in the Design for Mobile course I teach is to have students design and build responsive restaurant websites. Responsive design has been around since 2010, and really...
View ArticleStudent Work – Music Streaming Website
This is another great example from one of my Intermediate Web Design sections by Juan Sarmiento. I have been teaching this course for a long time and it has evolved a lot over the years. In the early...
View ArticleStudent Work – Microinteractions
In the summer of 2016 I taught a course on interaction design with an exceptional group of students who were really hungry to dig deeper into JavaScript and the kinds of interactions that can be...
View ArticleStudent Work – Mobile App Prototype
Prototyping tools have really hit their stride in the past few years. InvisionApp along with Sketch have been favorites for designers for a while now, but there is a lot of development in this area...
View ArticleSacramento Addys 2018
On Friday, March 9th 2018 the Sacramento Advertising Club hosted a Galla event to celebrate and award local winning entries to the national American Advertising Federation’s annual Addys competition....
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