What the...where’d my website go?

In a spontaneous Sunday afternoon decision I opted to take down my former site while I work on finishing the new design over the course of the next month (or so). If you’re really that interested in seeing that old one-horse town of a layout you can view it here.

Why not just leave the old site up for now?

While this had been my own reasoning for some time, I’ve realized it becomes to easy to procrastinate redoing my own website with so many other responsibilities on the table (client work, thesis project, etc). During university this wasn’t really an issue but as I plan forward for the future after graduating in June having an accurate representation of my work becomes less of a nicety and instead a priority. That said, the old layout was not only outdated but downright misrepresented the style and quality of work I strive to design & develop for both myself and clients today.

Okay, so what’s this “Inglorious House” nonsense about?

Organization my friend, it’s all about organization. Since I first built this site I’ve had an issue with how it lacked a clear hierarchical organization. Professional web design alongside experimental/academic architectural design alongside a blog. We all love a folk punk-rock speed metal bands, but something about mixing too many genres into a personal portfolio made it feel diluted. In an effort to fix that issue and plan for future professional design efforts across multiple disciplines, I’m filtering out all professional work to the my future new design firm’s website: House of Atomi. This site will exist as a platform from which to publish personal writings in a designed format alongside an ever whimsical and rambling blog.

That’s nice & all, but what if I want to see your work now?

I’ll be setting up an online contact form soon, but in the meantime if you’re interested in hiring me please feel free to email me at with any inquiries. I’ll be happy to respond with some of my most recent work samples. In the meantime, some of my more recent clients have been:

  • Elisir Restaurant

    Nominated as one of the best new restaurants of 2011, Chef Enzo Fargione’s newest high end Italian creation is a force with which to be reckoned. Located in downtown Washington D.C. less than two blocks from the White House, everything about it speaks of its attention to quality.

  • California Polytechnic State University (Summer 2012)

    Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has been a university near the top of engineering lists for years but unfortunately has until now heavily overlooked design with its technical agenda and sensibilities. In an effort to rebrand and bring the university’s image it’s undergoing a full redesign of everything from the font in its logo to the ubiquitous Cal Poly web template. I’ve been hired by Internet Technology Services (ITS) on campus to redesign and rethink the Cal Poly Portal, a single point login system and dashboard used by over 23,000 students, staff, & faculty for purposes of accessing homework, email, registering for classes, and more.

  • Panacea Flowery (Coming Early May)

    Panacea is a boutique wedding florist well-known throughout the San Luis Obispo (and much of California) area for their beautifully unique and intricate floral designs, custom tailored to the taste and setting of each client. With bundles of awards from various design blogs behind them, Panacea somehow manages to defeat the odds and continually please future brides year after year.

  • No Worries Now (Coming Late May)

    No Worries Now is a non-profit charity with an unusual but heartfelt agenda: improving the wellbeing of teens with life-threatening illnesses now. They began as a charity that organized proms for ill high school students, but are rapidly expanding their initiatives to include directing teens on how to organize their own proms, promoting banking and use of umbilical cord blood, and pairing typically isolated teens in hospitals.