Andrew Gormley

Muscle Car Wallpapers

When editing the East Passyunk Car Show I took a couple screenshots from the beginning sequence where I isolated certain colors from each shot and made them into wallpapers that I have on rotation currently. I'm offering them up for free download for any other muscle car fans. Five to choose from at 1920x1200 resolution.

ooShirts Custom Shirts Review

For the past few months I've been toying around with the idea of getting some original designs on a t-shirt and selling them to you wonderful folks. I realized that this would be a more expensive undertaking than I initially planned as I browsed around both local screenprinting shops and online stores alike. Then I came across a site that changed my mind on the prospect.

The How and The Why

I can't remember where, but I recall reading a quote that said good designers can explain how they solved a problem but great designers will explain why. I'm not so egotistical as to call myself a great designer, but I'd like to give a little insight into how and why I designed this site.

Maildrop: A Free Email Template

The other day I was Photoshopping a few designs for email campaigns that I’ve been working on and after about the fourth comp I decided as a public service to start offering the designs I didn’t use as free downloads—both the code AND the PSD. It is with that in mind that I offer you Maildrop.

Realign Step 2: Finding a Voice

Now that I know my visitors and their capabilities, it’s time to dive into what they come to my site to see and then begin to build my messaging and branding around that.

Realign Step 1: Finding the Audience

As promised, here is the first of a multi-part series that goes through the process of realigning my site not only to better address my target audience, but to also tackle issues that I’ve noticed or had to work around since the initial launch (over a year and a half ago). These principals could be applied to any type of site you work on, albeit corporate, personal, or otherwise. I hope the method and information you find here proves useful.

I’m Sorry, Dear Readers

I’ve been caught up in a bunch of projects and just haven’t had the time I’d like to dedicate to blogging for any length of time. Fear not, though, as I have some big design-related writing plans coming up.

Get Out of Your Element

As a web expert, it’s important to continually get out of your comfort zone for constant improvement.

Alien User Interfaces and You

In my never-ending quest to find the perfect streaming server for my home theater, I’ve come across many programs. I’m currently more than satisfied using the clean, lightweight Medialink for all of my audio and video, but have been investigating a few other solutions that transcode video on the fly (namely for HD MKV files) and that search led me to PS3 Media Server for Mac, an alien among my applications.

Recreating the Max Payne Effect

Here's a screencast describing one possible way to recreate some of the effects from the cinema interludes featured in the Max Payne series of games.