From here on in, I’ll be building in functionality first and then tailor a theme around it.

I’ve just joined up with Etsy to sell a few of my prints! I’ll be adding more as time passes, but right now I’m having a “Hi, I’m New Here!” sale and everything’s discounted.

Have a look around my Etsy shop and give the economy a little stimulation, would you?

But in the meantime, I keep on the lookout for ways to grow in our current economy, and I’ve seen a few posts with good ideas on how to do it. I’ve read about keeping your current clients very happy, improving your game while you’re not doing client work and lots more. The ones that have hit me most are the ones though were ones about sharing and passing on work to other designers.

Airbag’s “Goldfish” article really sums it up:

To those who own their own business: I challenge you to push harder. If you need $50k to keep your family under house and home then do everything you can to bring in $150k. Chances are you won’t make the larger goal, but you’ll do far better than selling yourself short and it’s likely that you’ll need extra resources to finish all the work, help from people who are looking to supplement lost income. I’m not talking about going through the process and stress of actually hiring more people (there is a good reason why the IRS created the 1099 form). Don’t turn away any work that comes through your door. Get it. Grab it. Take it—as much as you can— and network with the people who are ready and willing and have the skills you need. Team up, and conquer.

Another good read is A List Apart’s “Filling Your Dance Card in Hard Economic Times.” Have a look at this excerpt:

If your agency or company is doing well, do your best to help unemployed colleagues get new jobs or freelance work. Make introductions within your network. Help job seekers with their curriculum vitaes (CVs) and above all, show a little love. (Just dropping someone a line to say “hi” can make all the difference.)

With that said, if you’re looking for work, please send a link (either in the comments or by email) to your portfolio. I’m going to try and pull in as much work as I can and I’d be happy to pass along work to other designers. And yes, I’ll still throw in a reward if you send someone my way.

• an iTunes gift card
• an Amazon gift card
• a credit for design work with me

The amount you get on the card or the design will vary based on the project, so I can’t tell you how much you’ll get in advance. But I’ll make sure it’s worth it for you.

I love information graphics, that’s no secret. After Obama was inaugurated, I found the full text of his speech and made a Wordle with it and put it into a desktop for you.

You can download the background here.

What’s Wordle? It’s a really sweet service that makes word clouds and gives prominence to the words that appear most often. With this, you can see the words that appear most in his speech and get a feel for the overall tone and message of it. Go have a look at their site!

Enjoy it and share it with your friends!

I’ve added support for Cooliris on my site. It’s a fantastic way of browsing images, and I thought it would be perfect for browsing through my portfolio.

Cooliris is free and works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and iPhone!

So go get it!

It’ll be great to share more fun things with everyone again.

My time in the Emerald City is drawing to a close. I feel like I should say something about my time here, but it feels kind of like I’m writing a breakup letter to Seattle. Except it’s one of those breakup letters I ask to be friends with the occasional visit benefit.

It’s been quite a ride, and I wouldn’t take anything for my time here. I’ve been honored to meet some of the best people on Earth in Seattle, worked on some exciting projects. The food and coffee here are some of the best I’ve ever had. And the music isn’t too shabby either.

Now it’s onto Los Angeles to see what Hollywoodland has to offer. I hope for lots more freelance work, sunshine and new friends!

And to The Emerald City, thanks for the fun. I’ll see you again sometime.

After much planning, thinking and a little swearing I’m thrilled to share my new portfolio site with you. It features design work, photography and some other goodies!

In the coming weeks, I’m going to be adding more work as well as other fun enhancements. I believe you’ll be pretty pleased with it all.

Have a look at the new site!

Also in the coming weeks I’ll:

• be relaunching a portfolio stuffed with new work and goodies.
• moving to Los Angeles
• promise to blog more. Really!

If I can help out on a project, or you know someone who needs a good designer or photographer, send them my way won’t you? hello [at] joshuamauldin [dot] com

(You can also get this shirt at the Chop Shop)

• Design
• Photography
• Heh
• Movies & Music

I find that I’m posting in lots of places, and will also be making a concerted effort to consolidate all of that information here.  Give me a little time.

Not sure what net neutrality is?  It basically means that cable companies will control what you see on the internet.  Sites with larger budgets—think MSN.Com or NBC.Com—will run faster because they pay ISPs more money, and the rest will be throttled or filtered out of the equation.  You can read about it on Wikipedia if you’d like.

All for unfiltered internets, raise your hands!  

Saw the new Indiana Jones today, it was pretty fun!  Corny, but it was really an enjoyable time.

Unrelated:  you should check out Boeing’s 2008 Environment Report.  No reason. ;)

Hope everyone has a good Memorial Day weekend!  See you next week!

So if you stop in and things look strange, don’t be too alarmed.  It’ll be back to normal in a couple of days.

Love,

Josh

After lots of news that last night’s episode of Scrubs would be its last—from both Zach Braff’s blog and NBC saying they were done—I caught a nice little glimpse of a shiny new graphic at the end of the show.  It was an ABC Studios graphic, which instantly made me think they weren’t done yet.

When the show was over, I checked out Zach’s site, and sure enough he had just recently posted that they were shooting another 18 episodes but couldn’t say where they’d air.  Well I’d hedge my bets on ABC.

I’m glad they’re not finished yet. It’ll be nice to get another high five from The Todd! 

Season 8 high five!

I’m proud to announce that last week I inked a deal with a great agency here in Seattle, Methodologie. They’ve done some amazing branding/design/interactive work for Coca Cola, Boeing, Dale Chihuly, and tons tons more. Their work is inspiring, and they’re some of the smartest people I’ve met yet in design. I’ll be working with them until I leave to go to LA in August. While I won’t be able to say or show publicly what I’m doing for them (silly NDAs!), I can say it’s awesome and bigger than anything I’ve ever done before.

That doesn’t mean I will be unavailable for work, because who needs sleep! Get in touch and we’ll talk!

I’ve wrapped up the post on the movie photos, and will be linking those shortly. I was really proud of them, and can’t wait to share! The rough cut we saw looks amazing, and I can’t wait to shoot the feature in the coming months. We’re going to shoot it in Bulgaria!! Taking those gorgeous Red cameras over there will be sure to give us the most amazing picture ever. The Red cameras we’re using right now shoot at 4520×2540 pixels. They have to downsample it to 1080p HD. That sexy high resolution makes my head asplode!

More soon friends. Take care.

A couple links for you:  given the busy political season, all the foreign affairs the US is involved in, which seems more unlikely to happen?  That The President appear on Deal or No Deal?  Or that the Presidential hopefuls would appear on Monday Night Raw? 

If you guessed one over the other, you’re wrong.  Because they both happened: 

• Dubya on Deal or No Deal
• Obama, Clinton, and McCain on Raw

I’ve been really busy lately on the set of a film called “Image Mind Light.”. I designed a lot of the graphic elements in the film, from logos to currency, as well as provided some promotional photography. It’s an amazing film with a great cast and a top-notch crew! They’re even using those hot Red cameras, so everything looks amazing. Plus, my hot wife is in it!

Image Mind Light is a film about a civilization on the decline. Everything is run-down from wars and changes of power, and it’s a poor society. People have been medicated into sedation and complacency to work and not think about life, but there are those the struggle against what’s going on. And it’s a great story, the script is fantastic.

Here are a few photos from the set, more will be coming as we wrap tonight!

Be sure to view the rest of this entry to see all of them.

You can leave them in the comments or send them to hello@joshuamauldin.com.

Thanks guys!

Here’s what happened: � last May, a guy in Alabama named Joshua Mauldin punched his baby and put her in the microwave for 20 seconds leaving her horribly scarred and burned. � After you recover from that, � sentencing was handed down today for him: � 25 years in prison. � The prosecution is still pushing for life. �

It’s tough to believe people can be so sick and twisted. � Way to bring shame to the name there Josh. � � Not so unbelievably, lots of people I know have asked me if it was me who did it! � Just to be clear: � different Joshua Mauldin. � I love babies and don’t use microwaves for anything.

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