2009 was a very excit­ing and inter­est­ing year for me both per­son­ally and pro­fes­sion­ally. I’d fin­ished up my first year at my day job and have found the time to take on a good deal of free­lance work to fuel my more cre­ative inter­ests. On top of all of that my wife and I are expect­ing our first child in April. I have a great feel­ing that 2010 is going to be an excit­ing year and will con­tinue to be prosperous.

Some of the work I did this year can be found in my Work sec­tion of the site; some high­lights include the brand­ing and web­site devel­op­ment for West­ern Spray Foam, wed­ding invi­ta­tions for my sister-in-law’s wed­ding that I just attended, as well as a gen­eral design touch-up for my own site which I recently completed.

I’m cur­rently fin­ish­ing up a new web­site project and will post it soon. I’ve found lately that it’s much eas­ier to find work devel­op­ing web­sites than graphic design, pri­mar­ily because fewer peo­ple tend to know how to design and code a web­site. This is great for me because web­sites tend to be longer term projects and can often allow for con­tin­u­ing devel­op­ment after the ini­tial launch, which helps pro­mote longer term client rela­tion­ships as well.

One of my favorite projects I did this year was for myself. It was a sub page of this site called Things I’ve Recently… The site was pri­mar­ily devel­oped as a cre­ative out­let for me to review and speak about inter­est­ing albums I’ve heard, films I’ve seen, and books I’ve read. I’ve found it’s much eas­ier to update a site that I can feed on a reg­u­lar basis with cre­ative input than to write a lengthy, well thought out blog entry about design. I think in the com­ing year I may incor­po­rate the updates from that site into the blog for this site so that it’s sort of a mixed bag of updates in case oth­ers haven’t found my RSS feed for the other site.

2010 is look­ing like a great year and I’m excited to see what devel­ops cre­atively and in my life in other regards. I’m super excited to become a Dad and can’t wait to meet my new daugh­ter. With­out fur­ther adieu, here are a few of my New Years Resolutions:

• Update both blogs more frequently.
• Work on more cre­ative projects for myself.
• Develop a web­site for my Daughter-to-Be as a place for friends and fam­ily to see pho­tos of her and get news about her (No we don’t have a name picked out).
• Enjoy life.