We see because of light reacting with our crazy eyes and ocular nerves and brains. But there’s a lot to learn about where that light’s coming from. It’s either being emitted or reflected. The primary point of emitted light, for most of our existence on this planet, has been very hard, even dangerous, to look […]
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Multiple master icons
Just like fonts, icons can be designed in different weights. Here’s how it works in my current design, chubbicons: These are all rendered at 32×32. The bold weight was designed with 1 pixel wide stroke on a 9×9 grid, while the light weight was 1 pixel on an 18×18 grid. The solid is just […]
Modes of Transportation series
Sep 18, '17I’m having fun with this theme. It makes it easy to think of things to make.
A standard for user interface icon design
Sep 09, '17Editing this article to discuss general icon design standards, which I believe are needed. Icons should down-rez gracefully to small sizes, with vertical and horizontal edges aligning to the pixel grid at sizes as small as 9 pixels. A 3×3 sub grid should be adhered to when designing icons. [codepen_embed height=”265″ theme_id=”1″ slug_hash=”EvqZQZ” default_tab=”html,result” user=”empireoflight”]See […]
Some older work
Sep 06, '17These were from Jeanne and my show at the Albright Knox back in ~2001.
Big Guys ‘n ‘Lil Guys : The Tale of Reggie and Mike
Aug 29, '17First draft of a children’s book I’ll maybe Illustrate someday Reggie was a Big Guy. He could lift anything, even big buildings and cars. He was strong. Mike was a ‘Lil Guy. He was really fast and could fit into small places when he needed to hide. Reggie and Mike were really good at building […]
Cooper Union
Aug 22, '17As soon as I was considering life after high school, I had my heart set on Cooper Union. I wanted to make “cool looking shit”, I was good at it and CU was where the best in the world did it. Plus it was in Manhattan, my favorite place in the world and a 45 […]
A couple more gouaches
Aug 08, '17Some new acrylics on linen
First “daily recap” post
Jul 25, '17Jeanne and I were talking about how we have no idea what we did a year ago on any given day, and it’s time to start writing stuff down. So here we go. Today I: Met some cool people in Lockport Worked on a few projects Ate a chicken wing Drove to Canada on a […]
Some gouache doodles
Jul 20, '17Testing out the new scanner…
Small gouaches
Jun 27, '17Had to be the most beautiful day
Jun 25, '17Went up to Canada with Nancy and her friend. Stopped at the grocery, got the guac stuff and some burger meat.Chased a few house wrens away. Cleaned the cottage up while the girls made guac. Went surfing at Pleasant, watched Nan and her bud get sweet rides. Got a ticket there and almost towed but […]
Me and Griff back in the old days
Jun 24, '17In defense of “Code is Poetry”
Jun 17, '17Just watched Boone Gorges break down the ubiquitous motto. If not poetry, what is code? Gorges suggested craftsmanship, architecture, bridge-building, collaboration, engineering. None of those is text. Each of those has associative materials that could connect a perceivably banal thing with beauty: wood is craft, steel is architecture, mathematics is bridge-building, software development is collaboration […]
Sketch
May 25, '17I have the app, I’ve played with it, made some icons, and I still don’t get it. I think folks who use it a lot aren’t fluent html/css coders. For me, it’s a lot easier to do the things people say Sketch shines at directly in code. Do you use Sketch? Do you consider yourself a […]
The most beautiful soft rain
is falling outside my Lyons office window.
WP font
May 22, '17Who’s down to make a font for WordPress? I am! I’ve brought this up before. It makes sense to have a custom font for your brand; Youtube just did it. WP has such a strong brand that its own font just makes sense.
Mystery Meat Icons
Apr 23, '17Icons are everywhere. As the contexts within which we interpret content become more unpredictable, so does our reliance on iconography to communicate ideas and messages. The use of iconography has exploded as dissemination of information must reach a multitude of user contexts. Icons can summarize universal ideas and complex actions with a few shapes. Icons […]