Free for your mobile enjoyment I’ve put together four iPad and iPhone 4 wallpapers. I’ve been busy experimenting, learning new tricks and getting to know photoshop and illustrator a tad more intimately and in the process created these.

I am happy to announce that Chapolito has won a 2011 Webby Award! Collaborating with Highly Evolved‘s incredible Cosmo Jones and the ever talented Kimi Lewis, we envisioned and designed A Thin Line for MTV. The site won a Webby Award for the Best Youth Website.

The focus of A Thin Line (ATL) was to engage with teenagers…

Free vector drawings of a banana, orange and apple.

Naming your image files clearly and consistently can make a developer’s life a lot easier, the following are some of the guidelines I follow.

If you do a lot of designing like me occasionally you need to spice up your borders, dividers and line breaks. zig zags and humps are often used, but I decided to create a little library of ones so next time I need one I can just pull it in from this vector file.

Often when you finish a web design and launch it then you want to tell the world about the work you’re proud of. This urge is common, but how do you tell everyone and reap the benefits of the self promotion? Obviously you can add the work to your website or online portfolio, tweet/post about it, write a press release…

In the new issue of The La Jolla Light was an article highlighting a recent proposition made both at the La Jolla Town Council’s Park and Beaches Committee and La Jolla Parks & Recreation Inc. meetings for a skate park in La Jolla. My roommates and I were very excited, as we have been talking [...]

I read a really interesting article in the latest Wired magazine today about the availability of high-end manufacturing solutions and how the are fostering innovation and rapid development with small startups. from things like Chinese factories accepting smaller custom quantities to increase margins, affordable 3D printers and co-op equipment workshops, It really got me excited. [...]

In this free PSD file of websites buttons you will find a rainbow of free buttons. In the Photoshop file they are all submit buttons; however, this PSD file is also a general websites buttons template file! All layers are non-destructive and all text is editable! All you need to do is find the button you want to use, enter in your text, and resize the background and BAM! You have your own custom button in seconds.

These free buttons were created with a range of color palettes and background colors in mind. No matter what the theme of the site is one of these buttons will work seamlessly. Below you can find a full size preview of the web design buttons.

I’ve been thinking lately about the effects of being constantly connected through the mobile web on intimate relationships shared experiences.