Geoff Thibeau

Summer Building

Geoff — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:09:39 +0000

I’ve been busy for most of the summer strengthening my portfolio with two campaigns: Lava Soap and Southwest Airlines. You can view the artwork for each client by visiting my portfolio page or clicking the links below: Lava Soap Southwest Airlines An Opportunity Apart Also, something amazing happened to me in June while I was [...]

Internet Explorer

Geoff — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:25:22 +0000

As some of you know, Internet Explorer 8 recently launched its stable version a little over two months ago (March 19, 2009). I find it particularly amusing and slightly sadistic that the Internet Explorer 8 homepage sports a link to IE6. Sadly, it is still available for download. Retirement Internet Explorer 6 launched on August [...]

Identity Refresh

Geoff — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:09:00 +0000

My old identity was extremely arbitrary and mildly embarrassing. The spaces in the letterforms served no purpose, and the typography, consequently, suffered greatly. Hard Refresh Conception The inverted refresh icon fashioned to represent a capital G is immediately obvious, and the simplicity is intentional. I didn’t want anything overly complicated or “neat-o.” It needed to [...]

Realign 2009

Geoff — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:52:25 +0000

Since its launch in June 2008, the first functioning version of geoffthibeau.com has overgrown its original design. There were many features I wanted to add that were near impossible to implement seamlessly. The sidebar was quickly becoming a distraction, and dear old Bob had an embarrassingly misspelled balloon. I had to rethink what I felt [...]

Invalid Twitter Breaks IE

Geoff — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:59:06 +0000

So apparently the code I was using to generate tweets on the sidebar was invalid, and forcing Internet Exploder to crap out an error message that didn’t allow the browser to view the webpage. A replacement plug-in has fixed this error. Apologies to the seven (give or take, with me testing) IE users. For others [...]

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Geoff — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:35:09 +0000

SHAFR (SHAY-fer) for short. In November, I was hired by the Society to redesign their website and transform their web presence from a humble group of online historians into a thriving web-community of historians, educators, students, and the population at large. With over 100 unique visitors per day since its beta launch on December 23, [...]

Google’s New Favicon

Geoff — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:01:23 +0000

What’s up with Google’s new favicon? It’s horrible. It’s somewhere between Simon Says™, Play-Doh™, and the London 2012 Olympic logo. new old /Edit: Jan12 @10:40AM Armin Vit shares my disgust. Official Google Blog

CMS Upgrade

Geoff — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:01:43 +0000

WordPress™ has released 2.7 so I will be upgrading the site in the next few minutes. Please be patient if things go awry during the update process. /Edit @3:34PM Upgrade complete. I don’t think any changes will be visible to the blog, but significant changes were made to the back-end, content management section to this [...]

36Point Student Design Challenge

Geoff — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:22:21 +0000

Being a fan of 36point.com, I was excited to find their student design competition a few months ago. I quickly decided which class (that I was enrolled in already) would be easiest to get away with their ridiculous rules. Ultimately, digital printmaking, being more of a studio elective than a design elective, was an obvious [...]

Book Assembly

Geoff — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:56:35 +0000

During finals in mid-November, I was required to make ten books and two cd cases. After completing a few, I decided to document the process. Please read the entire process before purchasing materials. Required materials: plain paper, masking tape, Super77, ruler, box-cutter or X-acto knife, surface to cut on (re-healing mat recommended), tape-glue dispenser, PVA [...]