This past week I finally finished up and launched a redesign for the Aces Tattoos website. As part of the redesign I reworked the logo (see old logo here), rewrote the entire site, new design, new… well everything’s just new.. that sums it up. The site was done using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, a bit of [...]

I thought Id take a few and talk about what inspiration means to me, and where I find myself being most inspired. I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time, but like most, I have just been so busy that the blog has really suffered. Having some time off over the holidays [...]

Okay so the past few months have been a bit hectic to say the least and the blog has taken a back seat to coaching 6 year olds in soccer; organizing/coaching a basketball league for 9 year olds; finishing up another tattoo; getting the bike ready ride; getting back in shape; getting Travelocity ExperienceFinderTM into [...]

As I wrote in my previous rant, I do hate thieves, but I want to clarify something, the part of this whole thing that irritates me the most. Truth be told if the guy had emailed me and asked how I did ANYTHING on my site I would have gladly helped. I have never once not [...]

One of the most common questions I get from other designers is around pricing. I usually start off by saying “don’t sell yourself short, no client is worth it”. Which is usually followed by “yeah but I need the money/portfolio/fame/experience/etc…”. The fact is that, like anything, if you do it once, if you compromise your [...]

We can all agree that Google has some of the coolest apps out there, hell I use Google several times a day for different reasons. Well one of the coolest features Google has, is the ability to translate complete webpages. I use this feature all the time, especially since I only know one language English, [...]

Herral over at DQS has put together a nice tutorial for painting in Photoshop… check it out… addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cruciallimit.com%2Fblog%2F12%2Fpainting-in-photoshop%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Painting+in+Photoshop’; addthis_pub = ”;

I get asked a lot what font I used on the Crucial Limit site. The font is called UNI_054 from the guys over at Miniml. They make some really attractive fonts. Check out the fonts over at Fonts For Flash as well, I use a number of these fonts. They are very easy to read [...]

Another email I get a lot is from people just getting started doing web design and/or using Flash. I usually tell people the same thing. Theres no secret or magic potion, it all boils down to effort and experimentation. Most of what you see in my work is self taught, as school didn’t really cover [...]