So I design websites. I love to do it and I have for a long time. My most recent obsession (and thus, most of my output) has been WordPress blogs but my fascination is slowly migrating to jQuery. I’ve done all sorts of things for all sorts of people and even ran a few sites myself.

In the interest of time I won’t show everything I’ve made, and because I’ve improved so much with each new project, I’ll stick more or less to the most recent ones. Check them out, visit the ones that are visitable and let me know what you think.
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Would You Kindly?

This is the project I’m currently working on, and the largest benefactor of my recent absence from The Dope. My college roommate and I came up with an idea for a fun little twitter game that we thought would be pretty awesome, if it existed. Not very long after, we decided that if it didn’t have the decency to appear on its own, we’d just have to make it ourselves. Here’s the basic idea: we publish a very brief and purposely ambiguous set of instructions every week; participants recieve those instructions over twitter, and photograph themselves following the instructions to the best of their ability; we rate the participants on how creative and/or hilarious their solutions were, and the winners earn cash prizes. We’re pretty proud of the idea.

Although I am only responsible for half the planning and managament of this project, I did %100 of the web development from comp to completion. Check it out, and if you have a twitter account, play the game!

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Excelano Project.com
For those of you who don’t know me personally, in addition to being a designer, I’m actually a poet. I was Collegiate National Spoken Word Champion in 2009 and Assoc. Director of the famous Excelano Project. The reason you don’t get any of my poetic goodness here is because of the Official Excelano Project Blog. It’s where all my lyrical babies go to retire.

Check out my design and then check out my poetry. Let me know what you think of either.

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Esu Review.org
This is one of the younger lovechildren between me and my design addiction. A few close friends of mine recently started up their own academic journal in collaboration with the Africana Department at UPenn and hired yours truly to do the site, which has medicated my brokeness quite nicely.

A little different from my usual style (had to tone down my regular unchecked flair for a more professional look) but it came out okay. Refresh the page to see the alternating banners.

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Springboard TV
This site is no longer in operation but I think it deserves a mention anyway. A few years ago (before The Dope’s time) I built and ran a website called Springboard TV. Its purpose was very simple: to point you to the absolute best places on the internet to stream free TV and movies. It was essentially a treasure map for fledgling pirates, and it seems there were a lot of new boats at sea. In just its first 50 days we got just under 30,000 hits originating from 117 different countries. It became quite popular, and was fun while it lasted, but for various reasons I had to shut it down about a year later. Fans were uproarious. Here’s a shot of what it used to look like:

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Brain Juice
For your viewing pleasure I have uploaded a carbon copy of my old portfolio website to The Dope’s server. Brain Juice is what I used before my decision to streamline my portfolio into my [awesome?] blog. Most of the links will still work. For working video samples refer to the Film Section of my new portfolio.

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Comprehensive Layouts
In addition to demonstrating design ability, I think it’s useful to show creative flexibility. While working at Didit.com I was asked to draw up and present some comps for a client with a particular color scheme and feature set. Here’s what I came up with:

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Flash Animation
Two summers ago I was hired to design flash ad container prototypes (yes, I was once aligned with the enemy) meant to utilize motion the same way those dancing silhouette mortgage ads do, but without being so sleazy. I played around with a bunch of ideas for a couple weeks, here are a few:

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