The preRelease talking 2.0

Shaun has always tinkered. From dissassembling his sleeping father’s alarm clock as a child, to forcing your browser into displaying non-standard typefaces. The process of learning, building and iterating is reward enough for Shaun. The occasional success and recognition that results are just icing on the cake.

Shaun went to public school in Norwood, Massachusetts. He then fled the Northeast for the Savannah College of Art & Design. While there his studies focused mostly on print design until his senior year when his eyes finally opened to the web’s potential as a communication medium.

After graduation Shaun moved to Baltimore and endured a freelance dry spell by teaching himself PHP & MySQL and creating Designologue. When the work truly dried up and student loans kicked in he accepted a job back in Boston as a graphic designer with TechTarget.

Over the course of the following two years Shaun built a relationship with a small web firm based in Baltimore called Silverpoint, first doing freelance for their non-school clients which evently resulted in a full-time opportunity allowing Shaun to return to Baltimore. Starting as a Designer/Producer working with clients big and small, he accepted the role of Production Architect, the maintainer of company-wide production standards in addition to his previous responsibilities, before leaving Silverpoint in September ‘05.

Since that time Shaun has been focused on the continued development and support of the curiously successful, website analytics program Mint. Shaun has worked with Leslie Jensen and MORE LLC as designer/developer on their new site as well as a handful of projects with Jason Santa Maria, Rob Weychert and Kevin Cornell. Shaun has also been contributing news to StyleGala since December 2004.

His work has been featured or mentioned in numerous print publications and around the web. These include:

While Shaun is taking a brief hiatus from conferences and the like he has spoken at the following events:

Shaun has received the following recognition:

More information about Shaun can be found in the interview with Justin Goodlett, Shaun Inman Speaks (mirrored here because every time you turn around Justin has redesigned and introduced more link rot), in an interview on Notable Words, Shaun Inman on Writing, in the free premiere issue of Particle Tree’s Treehouse magazine and in Profile: Shaun Inman from WebDesigner 110 .

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  • nrg - Gravatar 9. 1. 2008

    Looks good. I especially like the grid and the sudden change of background. Keep it up! :)

  • progressiveOne - Gravatar
    progressiveOne
    21. 10. 2008

    Hi and welcome

    I want to show you this link www.coresite.cz

    Also some notes:

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    byebye:)
  • Tibor Sedenka - Gravatar 28. 10. 2008

    I’m not sure what this says about me, but having purchased every single title on your now depreciated list, I think you have just single handedly crippled my checkbook yet again, as the last readings you suggested have truly improved my knowledge of not only design but of life so much, that I feel predestined to buy the 15 or so you just added.

    I will still continue on with my degree in English, nothing I have read has changed that. But you can bet your ass that when the day comes and my publisher opens his briefcase and lays out a large glossy sheet on his desk, and says, “Allen, here is the final layout,” I’ll nonchalantly brush it aside, and from my back pocket produce my own sheet.

    • “I don’t think so,” I will say, as he marvels over my self-taught-from-many-a-book skills.
    • Long story, short: You’re an inspiration, as are the books you suggest.
  • Bambelok - Gravatar 28. 10. 2008
    • Graphic Design School (Dabner)
    • Graphic Design – The New Basics (Lupton)
    • What is Graphic Design? (Newark)
    • How Designers Think (Lawson)
    • The Non-Designers Design Book (Williams)
    • How to have Creative Ideas (De Bono)
    • Graphic Design That Works (Rockport Publishing)
    • A Technique for Producing Ideas (BernBach)
    • Design Essentials Index (Krause)
    • The Elements of Style (Strunk & White)
    • On Writing Well (Zinsser)
      & several photography books….
  • Seda - Gravatar
    Seda
    28. 10. 2008
    • Great Whale oops
    • Markus Brody
    • Indiana Jones
  • Seda - Gravatar
    Seda
    28. 10. 2008

    I’m not sure what this says about me, but having purchased every single title on your now depreciated list, I think you have just single handedly crippled my checkbook yet again, as the last readings you suggested have truly improved my knowledge of not only design but of life so much, that I feel predestined to buy the 15 or so you just added.

    Tak toto je flash.core. Cool.

    I will still continue on with my degree in English, nothing I have read has changed that. But you can bet your ass that when the day comes and my publisher opens his briefcase and lays out a large glossy sheet on his desk, and says, “Allen, here is the final layout,” I’ll nonchalantly brush it aside, and from my back pocket produce my own sheet.

    • “I don’t think so,” I will say, as he marvels over my self-taught-from-many-a-book skills.
    • Long story, short: You’re an inspiration, as are the books you suggest.
  • admin - Gravatar 28. 10. 2008

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