christian ross

A portfolio

I’ve finally taken the time to put some of my work here on the site. Shame on me for letting it go empty for far too long. Now that the hard part is out of the way, maybe I’ll be inclined to add my work a little more regularly.

Thanks in advance if you take a minute or two to look through it. There’s some previous/next buttons in the lower left of each page. Let me know if you have/see any problems or typos. I haven’t taken the time to test it in anything other than the browser I am working in tonight. Here’s to hoping it works.

The Portfolio. Otherwise known as the pieces I’ll attach my name to.

Infographic, A Dad’s Perspective

I kept a few stats Feltron-style leading up to and during our stay in the hospital with kid #2. Thought I’d share them with anyone else who wanted to see them. It hasn’t been done but could be turned into a poster if there was interest (from family, I am assuming).

View the full size image on Flickr

And if one is good…

More like this, please.

Hoefler Text, Black (via ampersandampersand)

Herb Lubalin – Ampersand

Because I know the rest of you are as completely enamored with beautiful type like I am. From the ampersandampersand blog.

Same place, new face

If you follow this blog through RSS, I’d encourage you to click on through today to see the new digs.

It’s been a little while coming, lots of after-hours time put into it over the last few weeks doing everything from sketching to designing, coding and then re-coding. Working on your own stuff is one of the hardest things to do. You’re never truly satisfied with the result but at some point you just have to go with it. At this point in the game I would normally be tired of the design already, but thanks to the help of some über-talented guys I still like it on launch day. A tip of the hat to Dave Ruiz (website | twitter) and Jesse Bennett-Chamberlin (website | twitter) for sharing their eyes, ears, minds and talent through the whole process. Stellar guys with amazing talent. Don’t hold it against them that they’re Canadian.

Hopefully we’ll start to see a little more consistent flow of content around here again. I know you’ve been waiting with baited breath. And if you care…

Specs

The layout
First off, you will notice that I’ve gone back to a centered layout. I wasn’t so much that I disliked the left-alignment of the last one (or the fixed column) it was more of the fact of the previous implementation. In my attempts to design the gray one I wasn’t ever able to come up with a way to distinguish from one post to the next. Thus the boxes. And man did I dislike the boxes. While offering less space in the content area, I have been able to feel a little more free with the content itself. (more…)