Barry Numero Uno

I recently designed a simple resume website for…

Barry — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:44:56 +0000

I recently designed a simple resume website for a friend, and since he is very into social media as a communications professional, using flavors.me site made sense. We could store all aspects of his career info in sites that were best to do it in with: LinkedIn for a resume, Behance for a portfolio and even Instagram for his personal photography obsession. Plus it meant he could update it all himself. As far as the designs from flavor.me we loved the simple, egocentric aesthetic quality and pared down UI – as a self-promotional vehicle it gets right down to business with none of the cruft that comes along with using a blog.

While being limited to the flavor.me layout templates and an automatically resizing background, it became a nice exercise in playing with flat color & type with a bold image. Although he determined that this direction below might have been just too wild for his field (He’s a corporate communications manager), I had alot of fun with these designs along the way:

I got PWNED I my webserver hacked and…

Barry — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:56:01 +0000

I got PWNED – I my webserver hacked, and copies of WordPress crusted up with base64 encrypted calls for sweeptakes and free ringtones. AAck. This brilliant little bit of PHP made cleaning the wordpress installs a breeze.. http://maciej.taranienko.pl/projects/clrvir.html

1Password for the mac is on sale for $19…

Barry — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:21:36 +0000

1Password for the mac is on sale for $19.99 in the Mac App Store, so I finally got it. If you are overwhelmed with managing passwords for every website you need to login to, this can save your sanity and do it securely.

New Site – Play Again

Barry — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:58:11 +0000

I just finished working with the folks at Ground Productions on their new website for Play Again, a documentary film which asks “What are the consequences of a childhood removed from nature?”

Thay wanted a new site quickly so I got their volunteers started with WordPress, the Big Feature premium theme, and the WP events manager plugin for the screenings page. Later I came in and did a bit of the front page coding and implementation of the events, and the video—the trailer use the JW Player Plugin to present a nice skin and thumbnail image even though it’s streaming from an HD YouTube video

http://www.playagainfilm.com

I saw this today—jumpchart.com it looks …

Barry — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:41:31 +0000

I saw this today—jumpchart.com it looks really useful for easy website planning. The free version gives you collaborative planning on a website with one other person, then exports to wordpress. I’m sure there are other online tools like this out there to develop a website wireframe (including just going ahead and just planning the site using a wordpress menu/layout to begin with), but this looks soooo simple.

This last year I worked on a packaging p…

Barry — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:52:32 +0000

This last year I worked on a packaging piece for a Cisco branded router sold at COX cable stores. Check it out.

Spent a ridiculously short amo…

Barry — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:12:26 +0000

Spent a ridiculously short amount of time upgrading a sad neglected drupal site this morning thanks to this ssh guide http://bit.ly/gfW4Ji

Good stuff on type basics for …

Barry — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:03:39 +0000

Good stuff on type basics for the web –> Achieving Good Legibility and Readability on the Web » Design Festival http://bit.ly/dVm5Yz

My clients Taggart and Jon at Collective…

Barry — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:44:34 +0000

My clients Taggart and Jon at Collective Eye just finished the trailer for their documentary film on the state of the honeybees (usually qualified in the none too cheerful term of ‘honeybee collapse disorder’), titled Queen of the Sun. It’s really stunningly beautiful, and will hopefully educate people as far as the solution to this problem. Look for it this spring and summer playing in theaters! More on their website at queenofthesun.com.

Finn loves to play at #OMSI in…

Barry — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:22:21 +0000

Finn loves to play at #OMSI in the Science Playground! http://yfrog.com/h2uc0frj