Cliff Nowicki | Web Designer | Graphic Designer
Design Thunderdome!
I had an idea the other week while talking with some co-workers and I thought it was a pretty badass idea. The main idea was to ...
New Year. New List.
A late Happy New Years to everybody. I've gone over last years list and I think I accomplished about...1 thing on that list, and ...
They now call me a Web Designer on paper
I officially start my new job tomorrow as a Web Designer at a local interactive marketing firm. I've been a production artist at ...
Design Thunderdome!
I had an idea the other week while talking with some co-workers and I thought it was a pretty badass idea. The main idea was to have a screensharing sessions where all designers would get ...
New Year. New List.
A late Happy New Years to everybody. I've gone over last years list and I think I accomplished about...1 thing on that list, and that's being generous. I've been thinking the past 12 days ...
They now call me a Web Designer on paper
I officially start my new job tomorrow as a Web Designer at a local interactive marketing firm. I've been a production artist at newspapers, a contract worker gracing my presence at ...
Capstone Mentorship Ending
I haven't posted in a long time, but I'm getting back up and at it with this post. I've been up to a lot lately, but I'd like to talk about a capstone I've been apart of recently. I've been ...
CSS Sprites!
I've heard of sprites, you've heard of sprites. Until about a few months ago I didn't even know it was possible to control them through CSS. After doing some research on the subject, I find ...
Check out what I learned the other Day – March 2nd
I was going through my latest book , Dreamweaver CS5.5 Studio techniques: Designing and Developing for Mobile with jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3. That's a mouthful, but its worth checking out. ...
Lookie What I Learned Today! – Feb 27th
I realize that it's not the 27th, but its what I learned on the 27th! Sometimes I feel out of the loop when I learn something cool about web development. Its like learning something useful ...
A Designers Library
I’m sure every designer has one and it’s called a design library. A design library is an organized folder with a collection of files that are used over and over. It’s a go to ...
Goals for 2012
It's good to have goals in life. It's even better to have goals for your career field as a designer, otherwise nothing will get done, right? I've thought hard and careful on some goals for ...
Seth Godin Book Love
I have to admit, I sat by and listened to how great Seth Godin's books were for getting motivated and feeling like you can be more than you think you can be. I kept telling myself, ya, I'll ...
Week of Mobile – Tuesday
Today's mobile design is something that I think would do good for my own site. It's just a quick portfolio layout that is a one page folio style kind of design. The top is quick links to ...
Week of Mobile – Day 1
I've been excited the past week ever since I came up with the idea of doing a mobile design every day for an entire week. I was so excited, I totally blanked out at dinner and realized... o ...
Next Project idea
Next week will be a start if a new project idea. Everyday I will design a quick 1-3 page mobile site/app based on something im interested in. I'm doing this because for the past 2 years ...
End of Term Summary
End of the school term! This will be my official last two classes with other classmates in the room. The two classes I had were "Media Production 2" and "Advanced Creativity and Design". ...
A QR Halloween
At my job, I currently have a QR code taped to my filing cabinet that proudly displays a rick roll if scanned. I was having a discussion with a coworker about QR codes and something came up ...
Android Stencil
Last week I was in the middle of a school project trying to come up with an idea. I remember wanting to make a vinyl decal for my car of the Android logo to show off some Android love. I ...
Final Projects for this Term
WARNING: LONG POST If you have time to read, then have a read, if not then you can just scroll down for the pretty pictures. Its been about a full term since my last update ...
New layout coming soon
As most of you know, I'm currently a digital media student at International Academy of Design and Technology Detroit in Troy Michigan. As part of being in school, I'm always evolving my ...
Donkey Kong Internal Clock Project
This post is for another project that just couldn't make it to my website. It was an Interactive Media 3 project where we had to put on something that moved by itself on the stage. I of ...
New Business Cards
I just got a set of new business cards in the mail last week and they look fantastic! Best part is I got them for free!! I know what you're thinking and trust me, this is not one of ...
Interactive Media 3 Final
The term is over! The term consisting of two classes, Motion Graphics and Interactive Media 3, is officially over. This post is about my Interactive Media 3 Final. The idea behind the ...
Current mock up of a project
For my Interactive Media 3 class in school, our final project is based on a company. Using flash, we have to create something with the company. The company I got was Chevy. There were tons ...
Kicking out the graphic and web design work
I'm sure it's a beautiful day outside (it was when I went to go get breakfast). Plenty of yard work to do, but I'm inside banging out some great work. My first project is a secret no tell ...
Saturday Night Design Work
It's one of those Saturday nights where I'm at home doing some homework. Motion Graphics and Interactive Media 3 are the 2 classes I'm doing the work for tonight. Motion Graphics consists ...
Working on youtube videos
I've started another term at school and I'm going into week 3 of my motion graphics class as well as my Interactive Media III class. With my new profound skill set of After Effects CS5, I'm ...
Site is almost up
If you can read this anytime the day this is posted, then you're in on a secret sandbox. If you read this the day after, then you're just playing catch up. I've been slowly adding to this ...