Toolbar Icons

I was inspired by this post I saw on Swiss Miss of some custom doc icons by Jessica Hische. I decided to make some icons of my own to personalize my new laptop. Being obsessed as I am with black and white, I decided to go with a black and white desktop theme. here is a couple of screen shots of what I have so far.

I'm still working on some of them and am enjoying learning about icon design. It can be tricky getting them to work at such small sizes and in some cases I've created different versions for different sizes.

My Very Own Business System

Here is my completed (for now) business system. Starting with the business card front and back:

Next is the Letter Head:

And envelope: 

And just for kicks here's my finished (for now) promo piece:

About Micah Patrick

Vegetables
Likes: 6% broccoli, 15% Carrots, 16% Lettuce, 9% Asparagus, 4% Corn
Dislikes: 8% Peas, 27% Cauliflower, 10% Parsnips, 5% Radish

Software Proficiency (in order of proficiency)
Photoshop
Illustrator
MS Paint
Indesign
Dreamweaver
Flash

Typing Speed
English: 30 WPM
Lorem Ipsum: One text frame per second

Keys
6 personal, 19 work
11 door, 8 vehicle, 2 padlock, 4 other

Blog viewers
Operating System 29% PC, 71% Mac (I use PC)
Browser: 38 Chrome, 9% Explorer, 27% Firefox, 26% Safari (I use Chrome)

Earth
Countries I've visited: United States , Canada, Japan, South Korea, England , France, Scotland, Ireland , Northern Ireland , Italy, Egypt, Greece , Malta , Cyprus, Libya
Where's I've Lived: Bozeman 3 years (born) , Salt Lake City 2 years , Portland 17 years (present), Carnforth 1 year (England)

Instead of sleeping (in order of frequency)
reading blogs
designing
wishing I were asleep
listening to music
blogging
night photography
running
Hulu
midnight mac and cheese
sleep walking
fishing

How to find me
call me
check out my flickr
check out my digital portfolio
follow me on twitter
email me
check out my blog
check out my facebook fan page

Interactive Website

Remember my website look? Well I've made it into an interactive pdf which you can view by clicking here.

Feel free to test out the hyperlinks. Be warned that If you click on Blog it will just take you back here. On the real thing it will open the blog in a separate tab. For you facebook fans out there you can click on the portfolio pieces to get to the next piece, or you can use the arrows at the bottom to get to the next piece. The pieces are almost all from this term or else pieces that were handy for some other reason. Hopefully it's pretty self explanatory. Let me know if it's not.

Also don't try to email me at hello@micahpatrick because that email as listed on the contact page is not set up yet.

Who is Micah Patrick?

I was looking through old photos on my computer and found this one of my sisters and I. Here is the cropped version of just me. It's hard to believe that was once me. I'm still that same kid with the same inability to flex convincingly (I wish I still had that hat).

People have been asking me about the whole Micah Patrick thing and I thought I'd take this opportunity to address the issue in writing. I'm still Micah Brown. I am proud to bear that name. Patrick is just my middle name. I've decided to use Micah Patrick as my professional (graphic design) name. No need to call me Micah Patrick, Micah will do fine. I'm not planning to make any legal changes to my name.

There are a number of reasons why I have decided to do this. First of all Micah Patrick is a more unique and dynamic name. A first name as a last name just sounds cool to me. I have nothing against my family but Brown is the fourth most common name in the country. Micah Brown specifically is a very common name. There are 263 Micah Browns on myspace and 357 on facebook. There are a number of athletes with the name Micah Brown, a musician, a photographer and even print/ web designer among others. Micah Patrick on the other hand is more unique and the domain was available.

Promo

This is part of a promo piece I'm working on for my pro prac class. It's a small poster with info graphics about myself. The information is a combination of trivial facts about myself for fun and graphic design facts to promote myself. There will also be a graphic with all my contact information. Here is one of six columns.

The first one seen here is vegetable by % likes and % dislikes.
The second is relative software proficiency.
The third is my typing speed for English and for filler text.
I'm much faster at filler text.

If you have any Ideas for other information to include let me know.

Website Look

Here is what I have so far for my website's look as seen in Google Chrome. Click on images below to see them in close to actual size.

This is what it will look like on my computer and 76% of users (1680 by 1050 pixels):

This is what it will look like on a computer with a resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels (20% of users):