Artist Magazines + Ephemera

Saw some great works in this show at 871 Fine Arts in SF – here’s an excerpt from the curatorial statement:

It’s really difficult to successfully show printed works as opposed to strictly visual works of art in a gallery setting. You either have a choice of showing the cover or opening up to an inviting interior page, leaving the rest unseen. It’s the same whether you’re showing artists’ books, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, correspondence or other published ephemera. They are best perused in a comfortable position, at ones leisure, thumb to page. That said, printed matter is an integral part of a comprehensive artistic experience and a highly interesting aspect to boot. So despite the drawbacks of display, the attempt to highlight these materials goes on, and from my viewpoint, it is most welcome…

New StudyBlue Android app

Redesigned and completely rewritten to compliment the most current Android UX patterns this was my first assignment at StudyBlue. I got involved during the last phase of the project and worked to help iron out kinks, update graphics and help the launch promotion.

I got to test out the new app, and I like how easy it is to use.

– Jennifer Roland, Edcetera

Incarnations

While I ponder my next career move I [naturally] find myself looking back at previous roles and ventures… and assessing them — kindly for the most part — for what they taught me about this industry and my place within it.

Very early version of my studio, 03tilt’s website.

Last version of the website.

I feel cathartic but also have a strong sense of my mounting brio as I review my achievements, retool my portfolio, and have mutually persuasive conversations with start-ups about the next big thing.

Meeting new people with ingenious ideas, gaining insights into new businesses, markets, and product spaces has me bristling with excitement.

Helping to bring start-ups out of the design and customer experience wilderness is what I love to do and is what I do best:

SugarSync 2.0 beta takes on Dropbox with modern design and iDisk-like virtual drive… a minimalist and centralized new design… A handsome black, green, gray, and red color palette adorns the new app from head to toe… the new app is breathtakingly modern – The Verge

a fresh new interface… – The Next Web

…dramatically overhauled and simplified user interface – Macworld

I’m looking forward to my next challenge.

Work at MASS MoCA

Mass MoCA poster

I designed this poster for a show that Anne was in at MASS MoCA. She showed her video work Cracked Actor which was part of Moyra Davey‘s One Minute Film Festival which is being celebrated with this exhibition:

The One Minute Film Festival took place annually in a barn outside of a small town in upstate New York, on the first Saturday after the 4th of July, from 2003-2012. On that day, artists, writers, film- and video-makers would arrive in the afternoon with food and drink and a one-minute movie. After sunset, everyone took their seats and the movies began, usually lasting two or three hours, and afterwards people danced. The festival was organized and hosted by artists Jason Simon and Moyra Davey.

iOS design, am I seeing things…?

Working on the final pieces of the entirely redesigned SugarSync iOS app and feeling like things may be getting a little too seasonal. I’m happy with the flatness of the UI here but the colors are making me think… St. Patrick’s Day (and me a fervent Scotsman)!

SugarSync: Android app photo view, lower portion showing navigation

Design for Android

The new SugarSync Android app is a richly functional mobile experience with all the updated branding and user experience that I’ve been working so hard on (see previous posts).

If Android is the future of mobile then this app is the future of mobile cloud services! If you’re Android-enabled take it for a spin and let me know what you think.