Mike N Garrett

Designer

Hello@KernMe.org

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Job Searching for Designers

If you’re looking for a design job on Monster and Career Building you’re definitely in the wrong place. The design community isn’t looking for a cookie cutter of their perfect candidate. They’re looking for someone off the wall, so they look in off the wall places specific to design. More after the jump.

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Finding the right answer

“To be smart is to admit you don’t know the answer. To be wise is to realize when you find that answer it’s only one possible truth.”

I was reading an article in The New York Times Magazine about the opposition to truth in science as an opinion allegedly held by the Tea Party when I came up with this quote. It’s easy to be swayed by a convincing argument. I find when I don’t have the time to think though an opinion I tend to agree with the opinion being argued for, making assumptions along the way that support said opinion. The important realization is that you’re in a cave, bound and shackled, looking at the shadow play on the walls. The truth won’t set you free, but the realization that you don’t know the truth will.

Anyway, I’m doing my best to be wise while considering there are at least 2 truths to every situation.


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Lunar Eclipse

I took some pictures of the lunar eclipse that occurred last night. The unique trait was this eclipse coincided with the winter solstice. @jzy had a great idea of taking his shots of the eclipse and putting them all together. I was so impressed with his shots I decided to do the same with mine. Follow the more link to see the full compilation.
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Featured on Web Design Served

Web Design Served featured my work with VCU’s Art History Department on the home page of their site. Web Design Served is a web design aggregating gallery curated by the fine people at Behance.net. Thanks, guys!



Lifestream

January 29th
RT @ratherfancy: TechCrunch | To Pivot or Not to Pivot http://t.co/bZdLPYTp

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Listened to 84 songs.
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RT @bryanveloso: (╯°□°)╯︵ doɥsoʇoɥd

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Twisters in RVA? RT @WFMU: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart Moshing at a 1982 Dead Kennedys Show. http://t.co/4e4lJLaB via @LaughingSquid

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RT @drbparsons: Damn @kilmc for linking to this yesterday—been stuck in my head ever since! :) http://t.co/c2erR57t

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RT @vpieters: From *Mobile Friendly* to *Mobile First* by @AaronGustafson. A process description of how his site adapts now. http://t.co ...

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RT @hellomuller: I just published a new project to my @behance portfolio: http://t.co/v6UA20H4

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My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Lamb of God (24), Jimi Hendrix (12) & Graveyard (12) #tweeklyfm http://t.co/lfHwfNH3

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RT @Musicin820pt: I just realized it's been 10 years since I saw @_FloggingMolly and @AndrewWK play the Boathouse in Norfolk, VA. That c ...

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Last.fm released their zeitgeist for 2011. They have Rebecca Black at #2 under new discoveries. http://t.co/95yAKpwX Hype Machine wins again

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Shosholoza might be my favorite song from last week's releases. Spectacular. http://t.co/QIQkrKhZ

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I love making clients happy. I hate making them wait, but I'm happy when they understand why. I need to get better at communication.

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RT @core77: Chinese Manufacturing, Part 1: Getting It Wrong: http://t.co/XOt7tgIu

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Site designed and built by Mike N Garrett. Soon to be Valid xHTML & CSS

Designer

Hello@KernMe.org

757.377.7859

Objective

I am a designer looking for a firm interested in lifetime learners, question seekers and innovative problem solvers.



Experience

Lead Graphic & Web Designer, Mplayit, Ashburn, Virginia

Provided and all-around mortar for the bricks. Responsible for web & UI design, print design, front-end development, promoting Mplayit though social media, app statistics, app developer relations with Mplayit, corporate site and blog upkeep and delivery driving.

2009–2010

Web Consultant, VCU Dean of the Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Responsible for maintaining and building the Art History Department Web presence. Researched and built Web applications for the promotion of VCU Arts.

2008–2009

Apple Campus Rep, Volt Services Group, Richmond, Virginia

Promoted Apple products to VCU. Acted as a resource for support to students and faculty.

2006–2008

Music Director and Manager, WVCW, Richmond, Virginia

Managed operations on a day-to-day basis. Accomplished more in two years than what was completed in the last ten.

2006–2009

Additional Experience

Objects+Methods

Lecture series at VCU with guests including Massimo Vignelli, Ivan Chermayeff and Chaz Maviyane-Davies.

2006–2009

Tasmeem Design Conference

International design conference, Tasmeem, in Doha, Qatar where I participated and presented a charette-style project on the problems with transportation in a growing city.

2008

Education

Norfolk Academy, High School
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Studied Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA in Graphic Design

2004
2005
2009

Range of Design Skills

Adobe CS4, Web design concepts and coding, identity design, typography, Web standards, usability, accessibility, team building, the grid and commercial printing.


Technical Expertise

XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01, CSS 2 & 3, HTML 5/XHTML 5, Processing, Actionscript 2, Blueprint and similar CSS frameworks, jQuery


References available upon request