So, I’m currently engaged in two particular ongoing projects, although, that’s likely underselling them. They’re not so much ongoing as undead. The first one being a redesign and content overhaul of Razterized.com. As you can likely tell, this site is starting to show its age, and it’s a bit thin on the content. That’s really where all the burden comes in.

Content.

Ramping up content for this site has been like surviving a zombie apocalypse. One never-ending run. You see, I got it in my head at some point that it would be a great idea (and it still is) to write up in-depth case studies for just about every project I’ve ever done (or, at least, the ones I want to show). This means pulling sketches, thought processes, colour samples, mistakes, alternate treatments, proposals wireframes, logo specs, client briefs, et al, and attempting to synthesize them all into a concise, pretty little packages for clients to stare at.

This seemed quite the easy task for the first few. Now that we’re on multiples of ten, it seems no longer easy but also like it will never end. I’ve literally been writing case studies since the end of December. Now, granted, this is a back-burner project and that accounts for a good deal of that, but, still. Then there’s the matter of writing it all again in Japanese.

The second is the much ballyhooed Sasquatch project. No, it has nothing to do with the Sasquatch Music Festival, but rather a community for northwest designers and developers past, present and future to just collaborate. I’ve always felt that was one thing that was missing from Seattle’s tech-heavy domain. Sure, you collaborate with your co-workers in an office, but how often do you just sit down with someone from the community-at-large, have some drinks and hash out some really cool ideas? When was the last time we had a web designer jam, or got together to crank out a cool app. My friends and have done that, going on to spawn a start-up game development studio, but, frankly, the impetus was on us. So, Sasquatch would be a forum for things like that to happen. Tweetups, collabo-projects, current going-ons, exhibitions, the like.

The infrastructure of which is just daunting, especially for (and the irony here is not lost on me) a one-man project. It’s about time to branch out and build Sasquatch with spirit it is intended to foster. At least the rough look & feels are done, see?

snippet of the Sasquatch header layout and type treatments

Grid and copy looks & feel

Copy type treatments

Typography heavy designs, of course. Typography still rules the world. Even if it won’t get content written.