The Zed Index

I just won my first award, and you know what? It’s totally bitchin’. Like, hyper-super bitchin’.

When I say first, I mean my first award outside of the various awards you pick up in college. You know the kind, Best Portfolio, Best Projectile Vomit, Student Gone the Longest Without Showering, etc.

No, this one is an Applied Arts Interactive Award.

The redesign of Gelaskins.com done by the great people at Teehan+Lax is what scored. On the team specifically, was Shannon Weir and Christy MacLeod (Project Managers), Steve Taubman (Designer, now Art Director) and myself.

I did it. I made the jump. I’m leaving Teehan+Lax.

Let’s just let that sink in.

Still with me? Good. This was one of the most difficult decisions I’ve made, but ultimately, the best one for me at this moment. I joined the team at T+L in the fall of 2008, it was a bold move knowing the caliber of work and the amount of really f’n smart people that were behind it. We’re talking, like, really, really smart. I was coming from a place where I was THE front-end developer – the mack shit, if you will – and was quickly knocked off that pedestal when introduced the work of the other developers. Not just the work, but what they were capable of, and what was expected of them. These guys could build anything and everything – and in probably less than an hour.

Humbling? Hell yes.

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