Joshua (hereafter, "Josh") resides in northern north Oregorn (read: southern Washington) in the shadow of Mount Hood with his (hereafter, singular) beautiful wife. The two of us spend sunny days riding bicycles, throwing frisbees, taking photographs, taking drives, crossing bridges, participling verbs, and more. The other half of the days, we spend eating burritos and crying.
We're also part of a wonderful community down in the Woodstock neighborhood in Portland who look to share Jesus by loving one another and loving the city. It's a lot of fun, and if you're reading this, then you're invited to hang out.
My most-played artists in iTunes include Copeland, Death Cab for Cutie, Iron & Wine, Brand New, The Decemberists, and the Drive-By Truckers. Literarily, some favorites are The War of Art, Candide, Celebration of Discipline, The Elements of Typographic Style, and Orthodoxy.
We're working on obtaining a German Shorthaired Pointer.
I'm passionate about creating great user experiences—both in print and on the web.
That looks like understanding users and their desires, then delivering something that's both simple and enjoyable to use. Sometimes it's a manual for someone to thumb through and learn, other times it's a site so users can have a great introduction to your organization.
I love clean, accessible, standards-compliant HTML and CSS. I also enjoy working with the jQuery and CodeIgniter frameworks. If you're looking for fundamentally-sound design that's a pleasure to look at and use, whether it be print or web, go ahead and contact me.
Or if you want to look it over some more, you can click on over to my portfolio and see the types of things I've been making lately.
Before your retina flips things upside down and hands them to your brain, this site is:
Day-to-day, I have a few pieces of software, web applications, sites, or iPhone applicaions I swear by and recommend faithfully:
If you like this sort of thing, check out the housekeeping tag, or the things I love. Oh yeah, and if you press alt + "g," you can see the 12-column grid this site is built on. More goodies to come.