....created 2008.01.01 ... [you're in it...] indexing and documenting work has always been a challenge that requires continual re-evaluation and reconstruction; fabricating book portfolios for job searches or school applications etc. is incredibly time intensive, and the product is immediately dated and inflexible to change. while this remains a desired format for evaluating design work as it requires the applicant to work within the craft of sequencing, page layout, typography, and bookbinding [which, note is not part of traditional architectural education,] limits the work to a static environment for which it was not designed or built, and can only exist through the abstraction of an entirely independent design project. while this abstraction is not circumvented by using a webpage as a venue for representation, as it too is a design project independent of the work itself, there is a flexibility afforded in the medium abscent in hardcopy portfolios. in truth, this craft then involves all the problems of graphic design [the aforementioned sequencing, page layout, typography etc.] in addition to the use of webdesign software - dreamweaver, flash, etc.

the advantages of placing a portfolio in a digital context are clear and universally felt - immediacy and infinte accessibility. the ability to add dynamic content such as videos and slideshows not only affords new media for description but makes allowance for more content without taxing the graphic project. may it be that there is now a venue for the more ephemeral parts of a project to be described, as the graphic project is embedded within a timespace [that too must also be carefully considered.] the influence of sound and light over time, sequence of experience etc. may be shown rather than written.

i have chosen to show the work in a continuous chronological project index. rather than categorize the work into genres of making [art, architecture, industrial/graphic design etc.] simply by listing the projects chronologically, additional information is provided by contextualizing the projects with one another and within the timeline of my education [in good faith that i will continue to grow as a thinker and maker, the best work will be the most recent, therefore show up first.] while this requires reworking my past projects a bit now, in the future each project listing can be its own graphic project respresenting the work etc., and will be allowed to date itself as time passes and new projects populate the list. the website [datum] itself will continue to develop as my craft with the represenatational softwares develops.