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The Design Distortion

 March.30th.2008 • 6:26PM 21 Comments

This is the story about a guy, a guy who could be seen as not wanting to write a post about how his recent redesign. It could also be seen as a way to vary the type of posts said guy does write. Either way, this is a behind-the-scenes walkthrough of Distortion.

For once in my career, I’m actually going to talk about the a design I did. I don’t think I’ve ever done that. I usually just say I will and then forget after realizing how much work it would take to gather all the screenshots. But no more! With the power of ScreenFlow I shall finally bring to you a very casual walkthrough of the design behind Distortion.

It’s 30 minutes of me talking, Jen typing and the kitties even hiss! I think you can hear sirens as well, but just ignore that, my headset ...

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The Message is Distorted

 March.26th.2008 • 12:00AM 65 Comments

This is the story of a guy, a design and a domain. After almost a year of nothing substantial, the domain decided to take matters into its own hands and promptly beat the guy into submission; telling him to put the damn sniper rifle down and finish the design he started.

It’s been 7 years, 5 months and 23 days. Never have I felt so drained after preparing a website for this domain before, but this really brings light to the phrase, “you get what you put in.” I’ve had long hiatuses before. However, none have seemed as long or drawn out as this one, and with this post and this new design I am proud to put an end to it. So, let’s start at the top shall we? I’m sure you’d like to know a little more about the 25th version of Avalonstar ...

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A Bit Oversimplistic?

 August.9th.2006 • 12:34PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and his namesake. The result of said namesake’s design turns out to be really simple, but quite effective.

(or _The Making of bryanveloso.com_)

“Boxes. Yeah, I’ll do boxes,” I said to myself yesterday. About fifteen minutes later, I had finished. Well, let me give you some background first. A lot of you know that I finally acquired my name after almost having it slip away from me at the hands of domain squatters. Needless to say, I was freakishly excited when I got it. However, all of that freakish excitement faded away after I sat down to think about what I’d do with it. So I thought, well, what do other people do ...

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Logos of Times Gone By

 June.17th.2006 • 10:41AM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and some logos. Specifically, logos that he made a long time ago. The Wayback Machine did something right and saved said logos and the time has come to show them off.

Archive.org did something right for once. It kept images of logos I did from Version 12 (ChaoticSoul) of Avalonstar, so I decided the world see something that I used to be able to do. Back in 2002, I was really big on making logos, so much so that I made 5 of those that you’ll see below in one day. (Man, I miss those days when inspiration really ran free.) I believed the streak came to an end when I finally decided on using the Phoenix logo for Avalonstar. Ever since then, I haven’t designed any ...

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Flock Gets a Makeover

 June.13th.2006 • 7:00PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and a social browser company. In about two weeks, said guy with a lot of help was able to make over said company’s identity.

Since Friday, June 2nd, I’ve been working on an awesome project with the great team at Flock. What started as a trip to go visit my good friend Will Pate turned into the opportunity of a lifetime. I had the chance to take a creative role in how Flock, who are trying to revolutionize the way youth browse the web, presented themselves. Needless to say, I jumped at the opportunity. However, it wasn’t all sweet. By taking the project of providing them with an effective redesign to accompany their new beta product, I threw a gigantic rock ...

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