The Space Foundation supported my coworker designer/developer Luciana and I in a trip to New York to attend Do It with Drupal October 11 – 14, 2011, organized by the Drupal training experts Lullabot. Previously attending the 2009 event, this was something I was highly looking forward to revisiting. New York was amazing and overwhelming. [...]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011Stylized QR Codes for Space Foundation
Thursday, July 7th, 2011With the Space Foundation moving to a new headquarters location in Colorado Springs, the marketing team designed and ordered fresh business cards. The new cards contain a cool new feature on the back of each card: a stylized, personalized QR Code. Contacts who receive the card may scan it with their smart phone camera using [...]
Generating Maps of Colorado Springs and Beyond
Sunday, May 8th, 2011After quite a bit of research, great Linux madness, and a couple gray hairs, I was able to install a map rendering server from scratch and start generating cool maps. The one pictured above is of my neighborhood in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Memorial Park and its lake can be seen to the bottom right. Inspired [...]
Exploring Live Solar Imagery
Saturday, January 1st, 20111/9/2011: This project has been archived, no longer grabbing live images from various sources for personal web hosting performance reasons. It now sits in the toolbox for future space endeavors when needed. My CEO dropped off a magazine before the holiday break with an article about monitoring live solar weather. What started as something interesting [...]
Homemade eCard for Christmas and New Years
Thursday, December 30th, 2010I made a homemade Flash Christmas and New Years Day eCard for family and friends. Have fun with it here and share with your friends!
Black Hole Porter Saves the World
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010John Sterling Vinson was commissioned by Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham to craft the Space Foundation’s first celebratory beer titled Black Hole Porter, making its debut at the team Halloween party. The porter was sweet but not too sweet, with a light nutty taste, and dark like a black hole. I loved it, and hope [...]
Final Scheduled Launch of Shuttle Atlantis
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010The Space Foundation sent a delegation of employees including myself to see Shuttle Atlantis launch, a beautiful success without delay. First launched in 1985, this was the shuttle’s 32nd and final scheduled launch. Atlantis was the first shuttle to dock with Mir station, and the last to service the Hubble telescope recently (On a side [...]
Successful 26th National Space Symposium
Monday, April 26th, 2010Roughly 9,000 people from 20 countries attended the 26th National Space Symposium, breaking all attendance records! The exhibit halls were sold out months in advance. The new sub-events/programs (Cyber 1.0, and New Generation Initiative programs were filled up before the event. There were top notch speakers, panels, and new fun twists. Organized and launched by [...]
National Space Symposium: New Website Design and Drupal Power
Saturday, January 30th, 2010A new website has been launched for the 26th National Space Symposium, the Space Foundation‘s largest event of the year. Designed, built, and managed in-house, the new website showcases agendas, speakers, exhibitors, co-sponsors, education programs, press, and The Broadmoor Hotel venue for the event. The National Space Symposium website has been a great team effort [...]
Play the French Can Can Using an Arduino and Buzzer
Sunday, October 25th, 2009While learning about the Arduino microprocessor and potential applications, I entered a tutorial contest with an “instructable” that teaches people how to play the Can Can with an Arduino and buzzer. It’s off the wall for sure, but as a result it may win some additional hardware? Check out the full tutorial here.
Three New Space Foundation Websites Powered by Drupal
Saturday, September 26th, 2009The Space Foundation Education website went live this week, showcasing one of the Space Foundation’s primary areas of focus, education! The site highlights the new Space Discovery Institute and courses and the Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy (check out the grand opening blog post). It features programs, resources, grants and scholarships for educators, content for students, [...]
Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy Grand Opening
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy (JSAA), an aerospace themed middle school in Colorado Springs, Colorado, had their grand opening event yesterday. District 11 partnered with the Space Foundation to make the school a national example to help kids excel in STEM: (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). The event was largely covered by the media. (Channel 13′s [...]
Trecky Vocal Interface Gone Wrong the Right Way
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009It’s an experimental two-way (speech-to-text / text-to-speech) interface! Intended for a Dragon NaturallySpeaking “Do you Speak Dragon?” contest entry, this video transformed into a blooper reel. This was the first time I tried to record myself. The results were awful, but mashing together all the fun parts made posting worth while. Yes, a haircut is [...]
Big TheSociety.com Update Went Live Today
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009The Society pushed a large updated to TheSociety.com today. The biggest updates include a revised navigation scheme lead by The Society Co-Founder Scott Berkley, two new products (The Global Bundle, and Personal Service Package) lead by Co-Founder Mike McFadden, lots of help everywhere from Mark Goebel and Joseph Sobin, and several visual updates, content additions, [...]
Preview of TheSociety.com Design Updates
Friday, May 1st, 2009TheSociety.com will be publishing a large update early next week! The biggest updates include a revised navigation scheme lead by The Society Co-Founder Scott Berkley, two new products and content lead by Co-Founder Mike McFadden, and several visual updates and content additions developed/designed myself. The biggest hit business-wise is The Global Bundle, with several “bundles” [...]
New Personal/Professional Website Launched!
Monday, April 20th, 2009While in the process of rebooting my professional identity, the need for a new website was extreme. After all, it represents my work. Previously an experimental blog and random place to upload other random toys, www.christopherstevens.cc has become my business website. Expect more shortly including twitter/blog integration, subscriptions, chat, a fun Flash intro that arrives [...]
TheSociety.com Template Enhancements
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Now that TheSociety.com is more unified in a framework and all pages/views using the same template files, enhancements to the overall design have begun to take place. Above is a preview of what will be published to the live website in the next couple days. This is what the website looked like before design revisions. [...]
The Society Launches New Wesite!
Monday, September 22nd, 2008At last, a new TheSociety.com is launched!! New stuff includes a new design and updated logo (yay for me), and a new “Vacation MatchMaker” tool that lets The Society assist visitors in finding vacation homes. That’s not all of course! Other features include support for charity, enhanced search capability, the ability to browse properties by [...]
The Society Luxury Mockup Sneak Peak
Friday, April 18th, 2008While I’m taking a small break from hammering out a luxurious design mockup for The Society of Leisure Enthusiasts, I thought I’d post a tease of one of the new design options. Have a peak! Before (The Society in the current live state): After (potential design option sneak peak): That’s all to see for now. [...]
The Society Website Updates
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008The Society went live with upgrades to thesociety.com last week. Exciting additions include a destinations directory, member-to-member messaging, community search, and a new home page. While there’s still much to do in the ever changing website, increased buzz about the company and site features has been very encouraging. The biggest item in last week’s publish [...]
The Society Evolves Part 1
Friday, November 9th, 2007The society evolves. So does thesociety.com! Now that The Society of Leisure Enthusiasts website is in beta, pressure increases to improve all aspects of the website and features. Helpful feedback from property owners, vacation rental managers, travelers, and fellow enthusiasts of leisure has helped the online vacation rental website change for the better. The first [...]
Town Center Dentistry and Orthodontics
Monday, October 22nd, 2007www.makeyoursmilegreat.com After a year in the waiting, it’s live! This design was created roughly one year ago compliments of Commotion to aid in Dr. Brett Kessler’s success. Dr. Kessler was busy for some time, unable to provide content. I was also busy with a new job recently, making finishing tweaks during the weekend when there [...]
October to October in a Nutshell
Monday, October 15th, 2007As a year has past without posting anything here, the time has come for a new look, a look back at the last year. My brother had a baby. My sister had a baby. I didn’t have a baby. I’m a year older this year than I was last year, along with everybody else. I [...]
Television Commercials: Stop Amendment 42
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006In two weeks time, Commotion and the Stop Amendment 42 team concepted, approved, scripted, filmed, edited, and shipped two commercials with variations to television stations everywhere. The commercials air on CBS this Thursday night during the popular murder mystery show, CSI. Another big launch is on Monday throughout the Broncos game in Colorado. View the [...]
Why support million dollar crybabies?
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006Commotion published a print ad in the Denver Post titled, “Why support million dollar cry babies?” to promote affordable ticket prices at the Broomfield Event Center. After several calls and complaints from the Denver Pepsi Center’s Nuggets and Avalanche organizations, the ad was pulled from the Denver Post within a day. Why would the Denver [...]
Scottish Stained Glass Website
Monday, June 19th, 2006The new Scottish Stained Glass website has been published! While taking web advise and web training, my Creative Director, Tim Ovesen designed the layout. Graphics intern, Jiyea Yoo, framed and added content to the web gallery. I built the template and optimized the website for search engines based on content from the old website, and [...]
The Dental Diva
Monday, June 19th, 2006She’s smart. She’s pretty. She’s a dentist, and an educator. She’s The Dental Diva! With her contagious personality, I totally see her appearing on Oprah. Visit www.thedentaldiva.com Her new website has been revealed to the public today. The logo was designed by Tim Ovesen. As my own design and build, the website holds media, a [...]
Denver International Auto Show
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006Amanda, Bob, and Sandra, Amanda’s parents Yay for cars! I admit that I am not very knowledgeable about car makes and models. That’s no excuse though not to admire innovative machines with extreme power and design. Amanda’s gang and I got together at the Denver International Auto Show. There was much of the latest and [...]
32nd Annual Denver March Powwow
Saturday, March 25th, 2006This was the second time I attended the Denver March Powwow. It was just as as exciting as last year! The annual powwow brings natives and visitors from regions as far as Canada and beyond. Social dances and competitions are held in the Denver Coliseum while crafts are on display behind the stands. forty-two drum/singing [...]
Happy Bean Dip
Thursday, December 29th, 2005Brandi graduated with her administrative marketing degree, and it’s her birthday! On an even like this, I couldn’t think of a better gift to give than my world famous Happy Bean Dip. Starting at a late high school event, this recipe has evolved into tasty bliss that promotes love and joy across the continents. Why [...]
Parking Stripe Advertising – New Design
Thursday, November 17th, 2005Visit www.parkingstripe.com The new Parking Stripe Advertising website has been published! The site features an updated stripe viewer, more in-depth information about the new product, news, photo/video slide shows, and emphasis on landowners and advertisers. Given the opportunity to redesign the site from layout to publish, I owe thanks to Eric Lindgren who re-skinned the [...]
Race For the Cure – Parking Stripe Advertising
Monday, October 3rd, 2005Sponsors Halliburton and Ford used Parking Stripe Advertising to show their support for the Race For the Cure event today (actually yesterday by a few minutes). Instead of using the printed parking stripes in parking lots, they were used as starting line and finish line strips. Seen by all 65,000+ runners/walkers, the stripes were a [...]
Production Room
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005The World Prodigy Visitors Center is nearly complete! The core area of the center is the production facility. The room is designed to represent the inner aspects of my work through architectural symbols. Features of the production facility include a website display platform, a screen that explains the various parts of the room related to [...]
World Prodigy Visitors Center
Monday, August 22nd, 2005Progress on my final portfolio site is going well! Rather than building a traditional website to display my portfolio pieces, I’m building an interactive virtual world where visitors can “walk” in a 3D space. The idea is based on the popular video game, Myst III Exile, produced by Presto Studios. The website features my very [...]
Custom Photoshop Brushes = Amazing Textures
Monday, August 1st, 2005A student named Andrew inspired me to play with Photoshop brushes in class tonight. He used downloaded brushes to enhance the borders of a web mockup he presented. It turns out that there are many people at deviantart.com that submit custom brushes of all sorts for free use. These brushes can be browsed through here. [...]
Liberty Global Goes Live!
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005http://www.lgi.com Liberty Media International and UnitedGlobalCom have merged to form the world’s largest broadband company now called Liberty Global. They serve many countries outside of the United States. Thanks to Greg Gorman and the Commotion team, I had the opportunity to develop the design and layout of Liberty Global’s website. Tim Ovesen, Creative Directer at [...]
