Design Notebook 11/23/2008

I managed to skip last weeks design notebook entry due to the need for sleep and the pressing issue of finding a new home for Papertreedesign.com. (I ended up going with Media Temple if anyone is interested. Anyhow the list of links was beginging to pile up in my handy little text file so I …

November 24, 2008

Sunday Morning Motivation – Design Notebook 11/10/2008

Yesterday morning I awoke after having had a rather productive Saturday, to find myself extremely motivated to piece together the new WordPress project that I have been dreaming about for some time now. After studying a number a Premium Themes as well as sifting through an endless selection of articles, I now feel that I …

November 10, 2008

Some Essential Reading from the Design Notebook

Yesterday I awoke to a rather beautiful but early Sunday morning and I just couldn’t seem to get myself into ‘work’ mode. So instead I decided to pursue alternatives to cranking out code and dedicated the day to “setting work aside to pursue education, thus the topic of this particular post. “Some Essential Reading”, or …

November 4, 2008

What’s in your Feed Reader?

I have gotten in the habit of starting each day off by combing through my feed reader to have a look at what was written the day prior. It helps me to wake up, get the mind running and more often then not provides just enough inspiration to get me excited about my day. I …

October 29, 2008

The ReDesign, The Lifestream

Here it is the much overdue (in my mind) redesign of papertreedesign.com. I feel that this design shows a progression in both my design and development capabilities since breaking out on my own some 5 months ago. I took speacial care to test it  quite a bit before launching but as per usual there will …

October 20, 2008

A Few Quick Screenshots

I have been working non-stop on getting this site redesigned, bottom line is I wanted to try a few new things as well as create a nicer platform for my revived interest in writing (blogging). The new design is drastically different, but you will see that my personally preference for the “grungy” look could not …

October 17, 2008