A team of 3 designers (including myself) came up with the logo/word mark.

We also developed other collateral material (menus/website) be sure to check out the restaurant AND the website!

http://www.pinotpdx.com

If I get around to it, eventually I’ll put up the case study of making this logo, it actually went through quite a few iterations and originally we submitted two entirely different marks to the partners.

I can see a lot of clients wanting this functionality and I’m happy that I now have the code in my repository.

See it in action over at http://pearhead.com

Can’t wait to use it on another project and really expand on the already extremely useful functionality.

*Side note @ Twitter: They deserve a kick to the groin for sending their json objects with improper contentType headers. I don’t like seeing warnings in my debug console!

Also, I haven’t updated my portfolio in a long time since it’s such a hassle. So after much deliberation, I’ve decided to upgrade - everything.

Starting on a new design, going to build an application that makes it easier to update my portfolio. My only reservation is whether or not I should do it with my current hosting, or get a cloud server and develop it on the new environment.

On that topic, I’ve accumulated sites over my development experience and after penciling it out I have enough that it would benefit me financially to host my own on a slice/cloud server.  Hesitant to make that leap, but it’s something that is definitely needed.

Trying to divide my time between work, social activities, brewing and bandofbrewers (which I’m trying to finish before the summer is over) wish me luck.

I might end up looking for pre-built bridges into wordpress; as I love the UI they provide.

The real focus though, needs to be an update/consolidation of all of my portfolio work. The key though will be to make it easily update-able. I always have trouble finding the inspiration to work on something solely for myself because I’d rather help someone with their project or work. Lately I’ve been starting more projects than finishing them; however it’s not due to the fact that I’m dropping them… it’s much worse than that, I keep thinking of ways to make them better, and they grow exponentially.

For example: I’m currently working on a homebrewers resource/community site as a side project and I’ve got a lot of the framework in place, I just can’t seem to get to a good point to skin it.

Between side projects and work I’m at a loss for time; sad to say I feel like my laptop is becoming an appendage rather than an accessory.

Anybody looking for a framework/cms that easily allows you to enter/update portfolio pieces and wanna have a brainstorming session on the tools that are out there and what they’re missing?? I’m not going to reinvent the wheel *as much as I enjoy it* but I do want something geared towards designers with a relatively easy templating system; more than that though -> tons of functionality and customization.

Anybody need a site/business management tool/etc?? I’m always looking for new projects.

Current side projects:
Time Tracking Software (yes, I know about toggl and it’s great but I don’t wanna pay for invoicing - also I want something that auto rounds my hours; allows for maintenance work etc)
Homebrewing community site
Personal Site overhaul
Business Site overhaul
Eggshell mosaic (yes, I do still enjoy physical mediums)

Nothing worked, I attempted to contact the company and find out what the heck. No response, in the meantime I was fretting about my website coming down and potentially missing important conversations/information not to mention the fact that my blog would cease to exist until the conundrum was solved.

Being a web savvy person (self proclaimed) I took it upon myself to dig out of the hole that DomainDirectHosting was putting me in by not assisting me. I checked out GoDaddy because it is a staple in the hosting world and I knew that I would never have billing issues and although the service may not be top notch, I can work around it.

Moving my services to goDaddy for a year cost me significantly less than I would have paid staying at DomainDirectHosting; I paid $60 for the transfer and renewal of my domain, sufficient hosting space, limited email capabilities and a few SQL databases.

All in all I can say that I’m not blown away by what I’m receiving, but I’m satisfied and that’s enough for now. Here is where the nightmare begins, during the transfer domaindirecthosting suddenly decided that my CC information was submitted and they put charges on both of my accounts AFTER everything was transferred away. (Still dealing with this one)

My site was down for a day or so once they transfer finally went through because I had to go in and transfer all the files, re-setup my databases and so on. The whole thing was much more cumbersome than I had hoped, but I believe I’m back and running at full steam, or more!

Just as a final thought, don’t ever use domaindirecthosting… ever.

Now for something highly inappropriate; enjoy. (Consider yourself warned beforehand)

Amazing piece of work and a rather catchy easy going song. Enjoy.

Oh and if that’s not enough for you; check this one out also.

Maybe it’s because my tooth was chipped at the concert (had it fixed already) or the fact that it was at an intimate venue like Dante’s, but I haven’t been able to get sick of this band. Same can be said about their headliner Late of the pier.. Check ‘em out.

Oh, and if you can imagine, after chipping my tooth; I rocked the world with a karaoke Ace of Spades to which I lost my voice. A night to remember for sure, I even have the piece of tooth as a reminder.

I’m thoroughly creeped out by this picture, and thought I’d share

More can be found at soothbrush.com