I made a spoof of the double rainbows video last night. Check it out:
Web Address: www.oppmi.com
Company: OPPM International
Summary: Clark Campbell’s series, The One-Page Project Manager is a best selling set of books that details how to manage and report on projects of any size using a single spreadsheet. His method is used by large companies and education institutions worldwide. Clark decided it was time to take his concept [...]
Web Address:www.evoconference.com
Companies: Today’s Mama and Mom It Forward
Summary: Evo is a new conference created by the founders of Today’s Mama and Mom It Forward. It’s a social media conference geared towards women and focusing specifically on bloggers and mompreneurs. I got to design the bulk of their event signage including agendas, directional signs, sponsor banners, [...]
Big thanks to Clark over at Mustache Power for shooting video of the LaunchUp 7 talks and getting me the file of my presentation. I synced it up with my slides using Zentation which has a pretty slick interface for side-by-side video and Powerpoint. Enjoy:
Tonight I will be presenting at the Salt Lake City Adobe User Group on using a graphics tablet to create illustrations and paintings in Photoshop. This is something I’ve just started to experiment with but I’m having a lot of fun with it and will be sharing some of the tips I’ve picked up.
There are [...]
Last night I spoke about branding at LaunchUp #7. Jeremy Hanks and crew put on an awesome event as always. The three companies that spoke, FanFare, Bazari, and Inzolo, were very cool. I particularly loved the talk given by Brian Henderson of FanFare. I’m an avid music and live music fan and FanFare, which is [...]
This is a little off-topic from my normal posts but since it basically ruined what was supposed to be a Saturday of freelance work I thought I’d share.
I never get fooled online. EVER. Whether it’s a Facebook scam, Instant Messaging virus or those phony popup virus threats, I’ve always prided myself in being smart enough [...]
Web Address: www.LuganoRestaurant.com
Company: Lugano Restaurant
Summary: Lugano is a nationally-acclaimed Italian restaurant in Salt Lake City that wins award after award for their awesome food and cool atmosphere. Their website needed an updated look and feel to better match the restaurant.
I used Adobe Photoshop to create the new layout. Lugano wanted to incorporate some amazing tile [...]
Web Address: www.NorthFace1967.com
Company: We Aspired Productions
Summary: North Face, 1967 is an amazing documentary in post-production about what has been called “the impossible rescue” which took place on the north face of the Grand Teton. You can read more about this amazing story here and here. The production team needed a simple site that captured the [...]
Last year, rather than make a bunch of specific resolutions that I wasn’t going to keep I decided to make one larger global resolution that would affect lots of different aspects of my life. My resolution was simple:
Try new things
I had a great year full of lots of new things. Some of those included:
Lots of [...]
For the past 6 or 7 years I’ve been burning a CD with some of my favorite artists/songs that came out that year. Rather than shoot for a certain number, my rule is that all the songs must fit on a single CD. Now that CDs are pretty much obsolete, that rule is a little [...]
Here’s our Christmas video for this year. Have a great holiday!
Merry Christmas 2009 from jdawg on Vimeo.
In case you want to see some of the older videos: 2008, 2004 (an all time fav)
Being a designer takes thick skin. You can’t grow so close to your work that you get offended or upset when a design or idea is turned down. I’ve had numerous experiences throughout my career where I thought I had come up with the perfect design, only to be told by the client that for [...]
Recently I needed to compare two very large code files (1200+ lines) in order to make a few small revisions. At work we use the Tortoise SVN Subversion app for revision control and it makes side-by-side file comparison very easy. However, since I was at home, I had to find another way to do it. [...]
I decided at the last minute to enter Veer’s “Carved” pumpkin carving contest. They were giving extra points for using a typeface so I figured I’d use the font that haunts designers in their nightmares: Comic Sans.
This was my first attempt at typography in pumpkin carving and I’ve got to say, it is a lot [...]
I’ll be speaking at the Salt Lake City Adobe User Group on Wednesday, September 16th. The meeting starts at 6:30 pm. Here is a map to the location.
My presentation is titled Photoshop Wizardry: Tips & tricks for efficient photo editing. I’ll be going over:
masks
batch editing
auto-blend
and some other cool Photoshop tricks
This is the same presentation [...]
I created this quick tutorial that shows you how to use Photoshop to change a daytime photo into a nighttime photo.
View the tutorial
Web Address: www.RussosontheBay.com
Company: Russo’s on the Bay
Summary: It was time for Russo’s to update their wedding reception/event center website and they wanted something that better captured the look and ambiance of their location. Telestory Pictures was contracted by Russo’s on the Bay to develop and build their website and media materials. TeleStory Pictures hired me as [...]
My kids got some of that old modeling clay they used to have in art class. I made a skull and then got carried away. Here is the finished product with some Photoshop lovin’ for extra spookiness.
I first heard about Madsen Cycles through Facebook. Someone suggested I follow them and when I saw they were a local Utah company I decided I would check them out.
Next a popular design blog that I read called Swiss Miss wrote of her love for the Madsen bike. The fact that Swiss Miss wrote about [...]
For months now I’ve been hard at work on an illustrated version of The Lord of the Rings. It’s put my pen and ink skills to the test and has proven very challenging. The watercolor work alone has taken hours upon hours. I’m also doing audio-book style voice overs for the narration. Here is a [...]
Web Address: www.crestviewpta.com
Company: Crestview Elementary PTA
Summary: The Crestview Elementary PTA needed a website where parents could come to find out about upcoming events, volunteer opportunities and also register for classes offered by the PTA. I used Adobe Photoshop to design the site. The site is programmed in ColdFusion using an open source CMS (Content Management [...]
I recently designed my first ever fiction book cover. It’s for a religious apocalyptic fictional thriller called “Ere His Floods of Anger Flow”. I didn’t realize there was such a big market for religious fictions but apparently it’s a very popular category of books. Here is an excerpt from the book’s sumary:
Without warning and [...]
Web Address: www.DiscoveryXA.com
Company: Discovery Expeditions & Adventures
Summary: Discovery Expeditions & Adventures is a travel company that specializes in adventure trips to Israel, Petra, Africa and Peru. They also do custom tours to just about anywhere you want to go. They needed a logo and web design that matched the adventurous feeling of their trips.
The client [...]
Web Address: www.LongIslandBrideandGroom.com
Company: Long Island Bride and Groom
Summary: Telestory Pictures was contracted by Long Island Bride and Groom to develop and build their website and media materials. TeleStory Pictures hired me as a freelance web designer for the project.
This was a very challenging project that involved redesigning an existing wedding website with hundreds of pages, [...]
I’ve (finally) uploaded the PPT deck (in pps format) from my HOW Conference session on “Working with Indecisive Clients”. The slides are pretty simple without much text. I apologize that there aren’t supporting notes for the actual presentation. It was largely improvised based on mental notes from each slide.
These slides use the Powerpoint Push transition [...]
I’m currently in Austin, Texas at the HOW Design Conference. It’s been a great time so far and I’m totally looking forward to some more inspirational presentations tomorrow.
I presented on “Working with Indecisive Clients” today and passed out this handout/paper toy. The F’N Lemon thing has to do with a story I told about a [...]
So a few weeks ago our buddy Jason was in town. This meant it was time to get the old “band” together and jam on some tunes. I use the term band lightly… and jam… and tunes I guess too. Oh and also song. We have fun on instruments. That’s about right.
Luckily Luke Stoddard rocks [...]
Recently I ran into a pretty frustrating IE7 bug that had to do with empty div tags. In the web app that I am working on there is some content that is hidden when the module loads, and then is displayed on a button click. An empty div where the content will be displayed is [...]
In the web standards world it’s a general rule that HTML tables should only be used for tabular data.
In this post I am assuming you are already using css (as opposed to tables) for layout. If you are interested in learning how to create table-less layouts, check out this article from A List Apart or [...]
Hi, I'm Jesse Harding. I'm a designer from
Salt Lake City, UT. I love Photoshop and everything about designing for web, print and anywhere else you can put color. I'm one of the organizers
of a cool event called Ignite Salt Lake. I like to speak at local and national events. I'm a husband, father and have a huge list of hobbies including
music, triathlons and playing with Legos.