Mike N Garrett

Designer

Hello@KernMe.org

Sketchbook

10k Apart App Submission

My app has been submitted successfully to the 10k Apart contest. I wrote an app called Type is Good. It’s also located on my server.

DODOcase for iPad

Consider this a personal endorsement. DODOcase is an amazing case for your iPad. These guys use traditional bookbinding techniques and materials to produce a high-quality case. Get a DODOcase iPad Case!

Job Searching for Designers

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If you’re looking for a design job on Monster and Career Building you’re definitely in the wrong place. Here are a few of the right places to look: Authentic Jobs, Simply Hired, Mashable Jobs, Smashing Jobs, Freelance Switch, Craigslist (seriously), Indeed, Coroflot, Behance, AIGA (members only), Krop, How Magazine, 37Signals, LinkedIn, Web Designer Wall, Fresh Web Jobs, FWA, Design:Related, All Dev Jobs, JS Ninja, Boxes and Arrows, Your Web Job, CrunchBoard, ReadWriteWeb & Ars Technica. Am I missing any?

US States Resource

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I’ve been working with forms and states a LOT lately. A bunch of resources offer different formats of lists of states, but they’re all in different places around the web. Here’s a single resource with a number of formats, including PHP array, select (option) html, select (option) html with abbreviations, abbreviation + full name separated by “|” for Drupal and single list of all states. All available in a single zipped file of text documents.

Strengths

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I amended my resumé with a Technical Strengths Chart to depict, visually, what skills I believe are my strongest. This is in no way a reflection of absolute knowledge, but of relative knowledge at this position in my life. I hope you enjoy it.

Mplayit

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Don’t have a password to view the Mplayit post (above)? Don’t sweat it. Go to Mplayit.com to see exactly what I was involved in. While you’re there find an app or two for your Android, BlackBerry, iPhone or Mobile phone.

VCU GDES Online

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I just noticed the new VCU Graphic Design site is live. I worked alongside Josh Reese and Roy McKelvey to help code up their design and refine the UI. Update: I forgot a link. VCU GDES Site

My Portfolio 2000-2009

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I’ve come a long way in the last 10 years. My portfolio 2000-2009: 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009

Operation Simple on Youtube

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Very special news. The Da Vinci Day presentation from last semester was finally cut up and put online. You can find it on youtube. It’s our official unveiling of the $500 Surgical Table. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuMopkmNptQ


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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