Category Archives: Design

Have at You!

By Ryan | Published: July 28, 2010
The last couple weeks have been a little crazy to say the least. My wife and I’s push to finish the nursery for Asher is in full swing, hopefully with some process pics coming next week once all the furniture is assembled and decorations found. In the meantime I have been making headway in a couple [...]
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Sometimes Functionality is King

By Ryan | Published: July 14, 2010
I am a form-over-function guy. I pride myself on making things look better than they did before. I design things. I do it for a living. I also have recently realized that there are some things designers (me) tend to over do. But, when it comes to the web-form, functionality is king. Forms are ugly. Really, [...]
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A Modern Eden Posters

By Ryan | Published: July 8, 2010
A while ago, I got the awesome opportunity to visit Vahalla Studios in Kansas City. I wanted to get the Modern Eden posters printed by someone awesome, and Dan and the guys didn’t disappoint! Jeremy, Jän, and I took a little roadtrip to press-check everything (more just because we wanted to see the process in [...]
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Mike Carr Business Cards

By Ryan | Published: April 12, 2010
Just wanted to toss up a few photos of the business card I designed for Michael Carr. Mike is a long-time friend and incredibly talented photographer based in Chicago, IL. The cards were letterpressed by Dolce Press in NYC and are absolutely gorgeous. They are also almost cardboard thick (good luck fitting more than 3 [...]
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A Modern Eden

By Ryan | Published: February 18, 2010
Here’s a little sneak peek of my upcoming project, A Modern Eden. I’m currently working with the dudes at FORGE and the mighty Chance Graham to unleash some beautiful animal-inspired products for babies, kids, and adults. Prints, apparel, and even an iPhone/iPad app are forthcoming. Follow me on twitter for more details and sneak peeks [...]
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TeuxDeux

By Ryan | Published: January 13, 2010
I am a to-do list addict. I am the kind of person who makes to-do lists about other to-do lists. I am also a print designer at heart, so like many designers I am constantly filling notebooks with daily/weekly/monthly lists of projects and things to accomplish. It usually looks a little like this: There are 2 [...]
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Coding with Coda

By Ryan | Published: December 16, 2009
This is the first of hopefully many Workflow Wednesday posts. To start off the little series I decided to highlight a program that has radically changed my experience coding websites, including this here blog. That program is Coda. Program Overview The only bad news about Coda is that it is Mac only. Sorry PC guys. It, like [...]
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