Technolografik - Sharp Edge

Here I goes again.

My never-ending quest to continually redesign my portfolio website instead of actually putting any content in it moves one more step forward today.

Basically, while I love the concept behind the Monumental design, there are a few inherent flaws with the necessary structure that make it difficult to actually use it for anything. I tried revisiting the old design I had a few times back, but it just isn't working - my style has changed, I've moved on.


To this. Honestly, it kinda ended up looking like the WordPress theme uH is using right now on his blog, but I've tinkered with the inner content sub-column idea with the tutorial images in a CMDSketchpad stylesheet I was messing around with in late 07 and never finished, so I think of it more an expansion of that concept than a rip-off.


The idea here is sharp, clean edges with a consistent whitespace grid for readability. The focus will be on the content itself, rather than huge graphics or highly saturated background colors.

The logotype for this one is all new too. The font used for the "TG" design is actually not a font - I created a custom typeface for it (well, two letters of one, anyway >_> ). I needed a new one to accompany the drop of the "Furon" prefex, and that was the main thing holding me back - nothing iconic I was trying seemed to look good, but things just clicked this morning.

The story behind the name change is this: The stylized flame logo was created while I was doodling around in Inkscape back in 06, just getting the hang of the program. The flame idea birthed the "Furon" name, and Technolo Grafik was added later to flesh out the concept. However, when I decided to use that as my professional image and went to purchase the URL, "furon.com" was already taken by Saint-Gobain, "Furon" having been one of their past company names. So I went with "technolografik.com" but kept the "Furon" prefex because the fire wouldn't make any sense if I was just "TechnoloGrafik". Well, those days are over: "Furon" is gone - Saint-Gobain can keep it. I've moved on.


My hope is that this design will finally be the one that I run with, so I can get content up there and start distributing a few of the scripts the dummy blog text talks about. Plus, I'm working with a friend of mine and we have something big in the works, and I want a portfolio site to point people to when they come clamoring for my design help.

Thanks for looking, and thanks more for reading all the way down here. Toodles.