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Jon has a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. After completing his Master's Degree from the University of Illinois in Mass Communications, he worked in video production and post-production in conjunction with several advertising agencies in Central Illinois. In 2003, he began producing long-form and 30-second television commercials for Insight Media in Springfield, Illinois. He produced several award-winning campaigns, including a finalist for a national award for creative production from the Cable Advertising Bureau. He also co-produced and edited several short-form music videos and full-length concerts for national, touring musical acts, and two seasons of the aforementioned Alternate Tunings, a television program on the UPN network showcasing live musical performances.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Be Your Own Pet’s New Album Art Good Advertising, Packaging (0)

And the record industry suckers me out of another $10. From the gatefold packaging to the actually hand-drawn typeface (I always compare similar letters to see if it’s just a fancy font or not), this album is one of my favorites this year. The highlight is the fresh-from-a-foodfight photo cards packaged away on the [...]
Saturday, March 22, 2008

Headline of the Year Funny Judge (0)

I opened my e-mail this morning to find this gem. I know making fun of people’s names isn’t all that funny, but come on.
Monday, March 17, 2008

Bad, Bad Clipart Complaint Department, Funny Judge (0)

Trust me: the guy on the left knows how to “enter into negotiations.” And check out how the guy on the right is just…staring right at it, as if there isn’t a big, orange, clipart wang staring him in the face. (Hint: Rollover to see the funny.)
This comes from a real-live computer software company’s [...]
Thursday, March 6, 2008

Internet Explorer 8: Does Not Suck Web Design (0)

So I downloaded the IE8 beta 1 last night. It’s not bad. Seems pretty promising, in fact, although a couple of the new features are less than intuitive at first glance. As a disclaimer, Microsoft is pretty clear that this beta is aimed at “designers and developers,” so I’m sure there will [...]
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Stock Vaults: Old Stereo Equipment Design (0)

There’s probably not much demand for this kind of stock, but it’s cool to look at, and you never know when you can use it for some unorthodox purposes (website navigation, anyone?) Bassboy.com has put together a five-disc library of photos, brochure scans, and schematics for hundreds of old tape recorders, stereos, amplifiers, and [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008

New Business Cards Projects (0)

W
e stuck with our new spaceman (person?) theme and redesigned our cards for the third time in as many hours, it seems like. For those of you who are interested in such things, we had them printed at 48HourPrint.com with rounded corners and the nice-to-the-touch matte dull finish on both sides. Whatcha think? [...]
Friday, February 15, 2008

Opcion: Open Source Font Viewer Open Source Reviews (0)

I‘m kind of a font-whore, and as such, it takes me about a year to go through all of them one by one. There seem to be a lot of crappy font managing programs out there, but here’s one that seems a little better: Opcion Font Viewer, written by Paul Chiu. Opcion’s best quality [...]
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

I Don’t Hate Vista (And So Can You) Computer Machines (0)

I have a secret. I don’t hate Vista. I wanted to, though. A big, glassy turd salad, I thought. When I buy my next computer, I’m gonna get that XP downgrade so I don’t have to put up with Vista’s crap, I thought, like a smug jerk.
Sadly, I was pretty much totally [...]
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Make a client login area with AjaxExplorer Open Source Reviews (5)

Here’s a good way to make an easy client login system: AjaxExplorer. AjaxExplorer is designed to be an FTP/file management system; upload it to your server, run the install script, and you can browse files (screenshot) just like they’re on your computer, as if you were in some sort of windows-based file-exploring-software-program.
The thing that make [...]
Thursday, December 13, 2007

Curse you, Office Depot Typo-Negative (1)

“Fadind”? It’s not a word, so you can’t get off on that homonym you-spelled-it-right-so-the-computer-missed-it excuse. Maybe it’s pronounced ‘FAD-ind,’ as in “I am fadind by eating lots of Crisco.” Stupid.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

2 Pass-it-on wordpress plugins Wordpress (4)

I can’t stand to read a big, long article on a computer screen. This, combined with my printer that devours SIX (6) Fifteen Dollar ($15) Ink Cartridges every couple months or so, is the reason that I have to eat belly lint and Ramen noodles for dinner every night.
On a related note, it’s a [...]
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

November browser breakdown Statistics (0)

Here’s how our visitors divided, browserly speaking, for the month of November (according to Google Analytics):

Internet Explorer users were split 52/48 in favor of IE6 vs. IE7.
Almost all Firefox users were using some version of 2.0, except for a few people using the 3.0 beta.
71% of visitors were on Windows vs. 23% on Macs.
Screen Resolutions [...]
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Good site design:book by its cover Good Advertising, Wordpress (5)

A little while ago, I found a good article highlighting 25 Minimalist Blog Designs. Here’s one that didn’t make the list, but should’ve. Book By Its Cover, run by Julia Rothman, is a beautifully designed blog that reviews books on art and design with occasional author interviews.
Gee, two columns, justified to the left, [...]

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