Harald Szeemann and Daniel Buren in Documenta 5
Following my notes on Museums By Artists, I was interested to hear more from Daniel Buren on Harald Szeemann and Documenta 5. Luckily, filmmaker Jef Cornelis recently issued an archive of footage from that exhibition, including interviews with the two men. Read more
Logo Design for Tightrope Books
Established in 2005, Tightrope Books publishes fiction, poetry, books on art, and creative non-fiction. I was contacted by friend and frequent collaborator Nathaniel G. Moore, who requested a symbol based on an image of a flapper girl with a parasol. The full version has her walking a line, which is omitted in the compact and spine version. Read more
Museum Row Guest House
Speaking of LA, while in town to attend the Origins opening I stayed at the Museum Row Guest House, operated by Carla Roth and Merritt Price. The house is located just a short stroll through the charming neighborhood to LACMA, the La Brea Tar Pits and the farmers market and shops at The Grove. Read more
Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles
Web design and development, 2012
I was brought into this project by the exhibit developers, THINK Jacobson & Roth. I created a web-based media component for the exhibition Origins: The Birth and Rise of Chinese American Communities in Los Angeles that allows visitors to create a living document of the Chinese community in the San Gabriel Valley. Read more
WordPress 3.5 media_order Issue Affects Custom Galleries
The revamped Add Media interface in WordPress 3.5 improves a great many things about media management. It’s fantastic and thanks go out to the team for all the hard work!
Unfortunately, the removal of a visible menu order field and the associated “Sort by Ascending / Descending” links has created an issue that affects some plugins and themes. Read more
The Man Who Figured out How to Do Many Things At Once
Personal project, 2011
What’s your favorite super power? Flight? Strength? Invisibility? For as far back as I can remember, mine has had to do with time: I wish I could do two things at once. So I made this web comic/art piece about what that might be like. Read more
Website for Photographer Samuel James
I’m happy to launch a new website for documentary photographer Samuel A. James, an American working in Nigeria. The site runs the WordPress theme/plugin package I’ve dubbed “Carolyn”, after its initial commissioner, Carolyn Drake. The idea behind this package is to create a system that can be used to quickly deploy portfolio sites of a certain kind. Read more
Template Part Shortcode and Carolyn Google Analytics WordPress Plugins
I’ve released a couple more plugins to the WordPress plugin directory. They are the result of day-to-day maintenance on a variety of WordPress sites.
Template Part Shortcode
Template parts are reusable snippets of code stored in your theme directory. Normally, they are called by other template files using the get_template_part() function. Read more
Convenience Gallery
Web design and development, 2011—2
Convenience is a window gallery in Toronto. It’s a simple, modern space so, working with owners Scott Sorli and Flavio Trevisan, I created a website to match. Read more
AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize
Web development, 2009—10
The AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize is one of Canada’s largest purses for contemporary photography. Previous to 2013 it was known as The Grange Prize.
While the short list is chosen by a panel of curators, the winner is decided by online public ballot. Read more
Art Gallery of Ontario
Web design and development, 2008—10
In 2008, designer Andrea Kreuger and I joined the AGO staff as the in-house web team. Active in strategy, process, workflow and project management, we drove improvement and change. We undertook a comprehensive redesign and redevelopment effort, interacting with all aspects of the institution to entirely re-think existing functionality, create new features and help to establish the Gallery’s social media presence. Read more
