I started at Organic a little over a year ago. On my first day, I was met with a stack - and I mean stack - of wireframes that I didn’t fully comprehend. There were diagrams of flipping the pages of a book and moving a filmstrip up and down… I’d never seen diagrams in wireframes before. They were really trying to tell a story, not just present a site.

I’ve spent every day since then making those wireframes come to life.

Last night, around 2 AM EST, we finally launched the new Waldorf-Astoria and Conrad sites for Hilton.  They’re not perfect - yet - but they are a wonderful start.

It wasn’t always easy - fixed positioning is not something you want to play with, hash loaded pages can be something of a monster, etc. - but we made it work. All the while, I learned a heck of a lot - so much I can’t list everything and everybody - about so much on these projects. This was, by far, the largest and most complex site launch of my career to date (sorry, Navy.com) and the most rewarding.

So check ‘em out. If you notice something wrong, let me know. We’re still trying to squash a few bugs so feedback is welcome.

Fast Co Design ideates on what Detroit could do with the all this abandoned space.

Greenways could be built in their place, along with repaired connections to the urban grid (imagine something like Boston’s Emerald Necklace linking the Detroit River directly to Wayne State University). And the grand nine-lane avenues that radiate from the city center, such as Woodward, Michigan, and Gratiot, which once accommodated a variety of transportation modes but over time devolved to serve just one (the car), would become the primary structure for the new sustainable Detroit, taking lanes away from cars and giving them back to people.

Laura Bifano makes wonderful paintings but this series makes me the happiest.

“Menagerie” is a series of 10 polygonal animal paintings inspired by my love of nature and classic video games.

You can purchase prints in her Etsy store.

As you may have noticed, the posting around these parts has been - shall we say - light for the past year or so. A look at the archives tells you that.

Last Thursday, Alexis and I finally got to meet the coolest person in the world… ever. This is our daughter, Morgan Arbor (middle name after the city of Ann Arbor, where Alexis and I met). She’s is a bundle of love and might be the most wonderful baby you’ll have the chance to meet.

I’m a proud dad but more than that, I’m a proud husband. Alexis was a champ through everything and is, without a doubt, my (super)hero. I admire her so much for what she’s given me and I’m a bit intimidated trying to give even 1/10000th of that back to her.

So yeah, life got in the way of this blog. I hope you understand. I plan on spending a lot of time with my daughter for a long while so things will probably stay light in the foreseeable future.

Dear Goodby, SIlverstein and Partners,

Your new logo looks sort of familiar. Stop stealing people’s shit! This is getting ridiculous!

Thanks,
The Design Community 

UPDATE: I guess you can win a Cannes Lion Award for stealing other peoples work. [via]