About
Andrew
I’m a student, designer, typo-phile, Mac user, baseball fan, and guitarist for the hall of fame Rock Band™ group The Ben Kenobis. I’m a Junior at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA where I study art and try to keep busy.
I’ve been laying out posters and playing around with fonts for as long as I can remember using a computer, and in the last four years have been seriously dedicated to graphic design. My background is in print, but my foray into web has opened up a whole new arena of challenges. I’m currently accepting freelance work, so if you like what you see in the portfolio, please drop me a line!
I’m currently attending Whitman for the Fall 2008 semester, and in the Spring will be studying design at the Academy of Art in San Fransisco before returning to Whitman for my senior year.
Content
This site is a portfolio blog, although the blog tends to be much more active than the portfolio. The site serves as a playground for my ideas, inspirations, and probably more than you would like to hear about why the Royals need to trade their shortstop and one of their center fielders immediately.
Design Lab is where I attempt to keep my skills sharp by producing images that are (hopefully) visually stimulating. It might just be the typographic illustration of something funny I hear that day, or a desktop I’ll create from an online tutorial I’m dying to try out.
Current Projects are displayed in the site’s footer to show what work I’m officially focusing on at that given time.
Commentary is where I’ll put in my two cents on design work that inspires me, new gadgets and technology I stumble upon, and play armchair quarterback talking sports in general but mostly my two favorite/downtrodden teams (Kansas City Chiefs & Royals).
Colophon
I’ve had many online presences, starting in 2003 with the now defunct andrew–scott.com. AndrewWitherspoon.com runs on a fresh install of the fabulous CMS WordPress, and uses a self-modified CSS version of Hemingway as a template. Flickr and the outstanding Slickr gallery plugin make the portfolio sparkle. Fonts should display first in Cambria, then Palatino, and finally Georgia or your system’s standard serif. Graphics were created using Adobe Photoshop, with a little help from Adobe Illustrator. Coding and FTP are managed with the slick interface of Coda, and all this work is done on a Macbook Pro.
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Photo Credit / Lisa Curtis
