Masuga Design, LLC

Thanks to A List Apart for putting together a survey on Web Design – which many people still find to be a mysterious and arcane art. Heck, I even find it to be mysterious and arcane. How in the world did I end up doing this sort of work with a background in Fine Art (oil painting) and English? I, who only ever took one photoshop class in college (I think we were running Photoshop 3.0 at the time) and who had to be one of the last University of Michigan students to get an email address – sometime in …More »

Thanks to Vitaly Friedman for asking me to participate in 35 Designers x 5 Questions over at smashingmagazine.com. There’s a lot of cool people on there that chimed in on those five questions. I learned some new things and you might, too. Check it out!

The name is now on the door! I officially started working at the new office location on April 12, 2007 (Flickr set of the move-in and setup in progress here). Business has been quite good over the last year and it was time to make things a little more formal with an actual space to go to. Consider this the one year Masuga Design Recap: Started business. Business good. Move into office space for Chapter Two, with plans to continue – only bigger and better. Thanks for your support!

I finally met the criteria to be included on the ExpressionEngine Professionals Network, and my EE Pro profile page can now be found in the Professionals section. I’m excited and proud to be a part of EE’s fine network of people. If you need to manage content on your site, I can help you with achieve that goal in a cost-effective way with the ExpressionEngine CMS. It’s a beautiful system with which I am now very familiar. We can start a site from scratch, or I can integrate your existing site into the system to give you more control over …More »

Happy 1 year anniversary to…myself. Masuga Design was officially launched on April 1, 2006 so it’s been a year and a week now and I’m still here. I have some good news – I got an office in downtown Grand Rapids, and the pictureset as it progresses is on flickr. I felt I needed a place because work has taken over my life – and it was time to put a little separation between things. Now I go to work sort of like I did in the past -which means GO to work, as in elsewhere. Out in the world. …More »