Lacy Garrison

Last week I relaunched Kimora Lee Simmons’ website. The amount of content on this website was rather challenging. And there are a still a few rough edges that need to be sanded down, but over all I think it was a pretty successful redesign and relaunch.

I bought a Kindle about a year ago. And honestly I used it for about a week, then the novelty wore off and it became of piece of the shifting landscape of my apartment. And there is stayed in a stack of stuff for about year. In February, I went on a ski trip in [...]

I’m not buying an iPad. It pains me to say it, but I’m boycotting. I’m not buying an iPad because iPads don’t support Flash. I don’t believe Apple doesn’t want Flash on iPhone and iPads because Flash is unstable or drains battery power. I believe Apple doesn’t want Flash on iPads because Flash would allow [...]

Commonwealth Utilities is having their latest fashion show today. I’ve been racing the clock to update their website with a new look to match their new season. I spent a good deal of time making the site a richer experience and focusing the design more on their products.

The New York Times updated the T Magazine site today. I love the fixed-position elements on the page. The liquid / fluid grid layout moves beautifully. The confluence of the two techniques creates a huge impact. T Magazine also uses Flash effectively and sparingly. The update introduced a new system for displaying slideshows of images. [...]

The Oatmeal has a great little comic about the pitfalls and pratfalls of web design. I used to have a client that asked me to make his web design *pop* so I can relate to this comic. A lot of my web designer / developer friends were passing this link around this morning. I wanted [...]

The guys at Commonwealth Utilities and I launched the redesign of their website yesterday. I built the site in Flex for a variety of reasons. One of the more interesting aspects of the site to me was integrating the “Join the CWU” page with MailChimp. I would really like to thank Christan Cox for the [...]

I love the new Basic Maths WordPress theme by Khoi Vihn and Allan Cole. I have admired the design of Subtraction.com for years and I have been unhappy with the WordPress theme I was using for this blog. I didn’t hesitate to buy the theme and upload it to my site. I’m sure I’ll use [...]

Awesome Interactive (my company) launched the Baby Phat Cam, our first iPhone application, this week. David, Chandelier Creative, and I spent a several months working on it. It was a great learning experience and I am very proud of the app.