adam norwood
What’s this all about?
Adam Norwood is an artist & designer in Austin, Texas. I spend my days working for the University of Texas School of Law and my nights toiling away in the studio. This is my personal website, home of my blog and portfolio.
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Documentation
Escape! Escape! — Links to friends and others
A bit more about your humble narrator
I’m an artist by trade as well as a full-time web and interaction designer. I’ve been working the web professionally for ten full years now, and have been building sites for myself since Mosaic was in beta and day-glo colors were all the rage. One dotcom bubble and a BFA degree later and I’m steadily employed as the webmaster for the University of Texas School of Law, a very nice place to be.
In between working for the university and freelancing, I continue to explore drawing and photography as part of a studio practice. I also squeeze in time to keep up on the latest research in diverse fields, as I’m passionately interested in:
- the humanities: art, language, literature, music, art history (including contemporary studies), illustration, cartoons, mythology and religion (mostly in the historical sense), politics, anatomy;
- technology: artificial vision, imaging technology, web design and development (and the related fields of accessibility and usability), security, the open source + free software movement, social interaction, math;
- and way too many other things to list…
My biggest influences to date have been Shakespeare, James Joyce, Jim Henson, They Might Be Giants, Tom Lehrer, Akira Kurasawa, Edward Tufte, Anselm Kiefer, and Joseph Beuys, in no particular order.
Fadographs of a yestern scene — Recently shared images from my Flickr account
Latest Tweets — Updates from Twitter.com
- @plusrich But maybe all the new IE8 features (which aren't bad!) will spur companies to upgrade finally... 1 hr ago
- @plusrich I've been wanting to kick IE6 to the curb for years now, and it still hasn't come true! ~19% of our site's traffic is still IE6 :( 1 hr ago
- IE8 Beta 2 is out -- first time I've felt good about an IE release. Apart from some font rendering issues, seems pretty excellent so far... 3 hrs ago
- @superhappy My Wacom likes to do evil things, too, usually stops working right when I need it most. OTOH, it's 10 years old and serial port! 5 hrs ago
- Just got back from contributing in a very minor, minor behind-the-scenes way to an international art exhibition. Neat. 1 day ago
- More updates...
About this site
This current incarnation of my site, probably the fifth or sixth since 1994, is a balance of blog and portfolio and gives me a direct outlet for my ramblings. I usually work with LAMP technology, and this site is no exception. The blog is powered by Wordpress with a handful of plugins, including some that have been modified and hacked a bit. I’ve striven to keep everything in this self-made theme clean and accessible, and to maintain valid XHTML Strict code throughout.