Well I am a pretty simple guy, who loves creativity, baseball, Star Wars, Heavy Metal, and Zombies. I have been designing in one for or another for about 8 years, more so in the web realm the last 3-4 years.

I was in metal bands for a while and got into designing by needing to make flyers, stickers, merch, and our site. I had a creative outlet in the music… but once I started doing some design I fell in love and never looked back. I loved, and still do love the idea of creating something that can express and achieve someone, or group of people achieve their vision.

Once I started designing I realized that I could do it for a living and just started trying to do as much work on the side as I could while holding a job, and touring. Since then I now work for a search marketing company full time, and do some part time freelance stuff from home.

The majority of my inspiration comes from personal experience, stuff I learn day to day. I also learn a lot from what I read… I try to read as much as I can, from as many different authors as I can. There is a wealth of knowledge in the design community. I would also say that I get inspired from conversations I have, and bouncing concepts and ideas off of other designers.

I just got my new TIAL design back from the guys at PSD to WP, I am going to be doing some testing, and hopefully release it this week. I am continuing to work on some new designs for OneCSS, and One-Up hopefully over the summer we will see those role out. I am always open to collaboration so you never know what else can come up…. Any Ideas?

Thanks, I try to keep them simple so that the content is showcased, for the blog, onecss gallery, and one-up, the content is the main focus (as it is on most sites) but I really wanted to keep it simple to get things started, so that people could see the value of the content being showcased.

In the future that may change, I am not sure… but I will cross that bridge when I get to it.

I think web apps and mobile technology are going to be a big part of the future for the web. I’m sure we will continue to talk about CSS3 and HTML 5, and I think that we will see more efforts put towards getting more fonts to the web on a more common basis through advancements of sifr, cufon, not to mention the introduction of typekit.

Never take yourself too seriously. Never stop learning. Passion is Undefeated (via gary v)

• Fuel Your Creativity – Always a great source for inspiration, and creative thought.
• A List Apart – I learn immensely from this site
• UX Booth – I love UX, and this site always has great content
• UIE – The Gods of UX
• Northtemple – I don’t subscribe to that choice of faith, but they are good guys, and great designers… it shouldn’t matter anyway right?

I have worked on both, and now work solely on a mac… they are stabler machines, sexier machines… but to be honest I really don’t care that much… even though Microsoft is responsible for IE… that right there should be enough for everyone to use a mac.

People, I love hanging out with my friends and family. I am blessed to be surrounded by great people and to have an amazing wife and two daughters… they hold me down. I love playing xbox especially Call of Duty (with @davidlink and @chaseswindler), any zombie games, and Guitar Hero.

Hustle. Work hard put in the extra effort, and more importantly… Listen, Listen to other designers, Listen to clients, listening is the long overlooked key component in communication, and design is communication right?