It was October 7, 2008 when I received a random email from Joseph Gonzalez: “My name is Joseph Gonzalez and I am a graphic designer/creative director living and working in Northwest Indiana. I’ve been a long time fan of yours and have followed your work for sometime.” What? Fan? Wow. Unbelievably flattering to say the [...]
read moreWhat does it mean to give back? Why is it important? What can we as designers or web developers do to help others accomplish their dreams and ultimately truly affect the lives of others?
read moreThis week I’ve been working on a project in my spare time to help the people of Haiti. On the internet there has been some talk in regards to the design community and what we can do to help.
read moreThe time has come to have actual professional head shots taken, rather than holding the camera out with one hand and taking the best picture possible. That’s pretty lame you know?
read moreHey everyone! Happy New Year! I hope your year is off to a great start! In addition to all the new work in my portfolio section, I am adding a new personal artwork project. This project is titled “Inspiration at Work”. I designed this piece for my office space at home, but I may have [...]
read moreWell, If you’re here, you’re seeing the all new Atom Groom Dot Com!!! Welcome and thank you for stopping by! This is version 6 in the archive of my websites. I am pleased to bring you an all new look and even more functionality than ever before. Below are some new additions and changes from [...]
read moreWork is under way on the all new Atom Groom portfolio website! 2010 will bring the most dynamic yet simplistic (design) website my dot com has ever seen. For 2010, I’ll be utilizing WordPress to serve as a content management system and I’ll be building my custom theme around it.
read moreEver have something trigger old memories? Maybe it’s a smell, a sound, or for me today, something visual. Today, I remembered growing up skateboarding. I remembered the late nights skating with my friends, getting into trouble, and stinking horribly when I got home of sweat. I remembered what skateboarding did for me and how it’s truly affected (in a very positive way), who I am today, and how I arrived at now.
read moreLast week at my full-time job (web developer for PHP, in Valparaiso) I was approached by the sales manager to give a job presentation to the local girl scouts. The local group is required to interview individuals at their job / career, ask questions, etc. In tern, the girls earn a “badge” to add to their belts.
read moreThis post is all about my (our) recent trip downtown this past weekend to check out Cut & Paste Chicago.
Overall the event was pretty cool, it’s a pretty unique type of competition. I like to think of it as the “Iron Chef” of the design world, lol, maybe that that’s what it should be called – Iron Designer? Sweet.
read moreIt was October 7, 2008 when I received a random email from Joseph Gonzalez: “My name is Joseph Gonzalez and I am a graphic designer/creative director living and working in Northwest Indiana. I’ve been a long time fan of yours and have followed your work for sometime.” What? Fan? Wow. Unbelievably flattering to say the [...]
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Atom Groom - Web Designer, Graphic Designer, Front End Developer from Northwest Indiana
