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The Idea of Place
Posted on March 8, 2010
My wife, daughter and I recently celebrated our first year living on this magnificent island called Salt Spring. It has been a very interesting year personally as we adjust to life here but it's the professional adjustment that has been the most surprising.
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The Objectiveness of Design, Part 2
Posted on February 8, 2010
In my last post, I left off having to fill the shoes of both designer and client as I worked on a new Coalescent Design identity and website. This raised the dilemma of maintaining a well-balanced approach to the objective and subjective sides of designing my new site...
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The Objectiveness of Design, Part 1
Posted on January 22, 2010
With the recent launch of a new website, this seems like an ideal time to discuss a central tenant of the design process: objectiveness.
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A Coalescent Christmas Gift
Posted on January 8, 2010
What would a designer like myself most want for Christmas? Ok, other than an actual holiday – how about a shiny new website!? Well, we've got one...
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A place for my thoughts...and yours too.
- After almost 15 years of working in the web design industry, there are a lot of thoughts that begin to collect and rattle around. Eventually, some of them need to get out – or I risk losing room for more important things like where I put my car keys or what year I was born. (If anyone knows the latter answer, please email me.)
- With that experience comes some perspective on working online that I’d like to share with my clients, fellow designers and developers – or any curious onlookers.
- You’ll find posts here about industry trends, the inner workings of web design and thoughts about what it means to work as a web designer and developer. I hope you’ll join me here – and if you have any suggestions about what you’d like to see, drop me a quick note below.

