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My laptop featured on FastCo.Labs…

Hehe. My laptop is on today’s FastCo.Labs “Sticker Styling: 14 Laptop Covers from Tech Innovators” right up there with Matt Mullenweg. Does this mean I’m an official “tech innovator”? The article says: “Ranging from cluttered, seemingly random piles of logos to minimalist, playful twists on the Apple laptop glow, the photos speak volumes about the…

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Byways site awarded ‘Web Pick of the Week’ by Communication Arts

I got a nice surprise in my inbox a few weeks back—an email from Communication Arts letting me know that they had chosen the Western Massachusetts Scenic Byways site as their “Web pick of the week”. Their interview captured some of my design intent nicely: “I hope visitors almost lose track of time as they…

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Public radio interview about Byways site

I was recently interviewed by Jim Levulis of WAMC Northeast Public Radio about my designs for the Western Massachusetts Scenic Byways site. You can read an excerpt and listen to the broadcast here. Here’s an excerpt talking about the site design and functionality: “A major part of the marketing campaign involves a new website loaded…

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Servers down, lessons learned

My websites and email were down from the afternoon of Thurdsay August 1 to Sunday August 4. If you emailed any turnwall.com or hifinit.com email addresses, we likely did not receive it. I’m extremely sorry for any inconvenience, but we’re back up and running and you can direct all emails to alex@turnwall.com.

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Gold Award for News@Northeastern

The News@Northeastern site that Geoff House and I designed and developed as Hifinit grabbed a Gold 2013 CASE Excellence Award in the category of Online News Sites. CASE may not be a big name in web design awards, but it is big deal in the world of higher education. From the CASE website: CASE District I annually bestows…

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“Northeastern Creates!” Semi-annual Competition winner

My photograph series “Static Movement: Doolin” won the semi-annual Northeastern Creates! competition. The prints are being reformatted and will be featured larger-than-life as 12 foot tall prints on the face of a Northeastern building on Huntington Avenue in Boston! I was interviewed for an article at News@Northeastern, here’s an excerpt: Works of art that show­case…