Okay, in less naked news, I added a bunch of… well, odds & ends to the site, mostly to the Design page, but one to Illustration as well. Mostly stuff from the past year that I for some reason forgot to upload, but also a few brand new things.

“Sugar Brain 3″ LP packaging
The full layout design for my newest album. All collage goodness with rainbows, tigers, and unsettling people with glowing eyes. What more could you want? Don’t forget, you can download the album for free if you so desire!

“Cradle 2 the Grave” mix-CD packaging
A morbidly-titled mix  that I passed out at my birthday party earlier this year.

“3 for Marie” mix-CD packaging
The packaging design for a three-disc mix I made for one of my best buddies, Marie.

“Testarossa” mix-CD packaging
An epic five-disc mix-CD set I made for my last girlfriend when we were still dating. Might be strange of me to post it here, but I was always proud of that cover design.

“Wedding Road Trip” page headers
Headers I made for a blog following two young newlyweds on a cross country marriagepalooza.

Honey Badger: A Thug in His Own Right
A t-shirt design I made that Ryan and I were going to put out, inspired by motorcycle club jackets and vicious mammals, but then the Honey Badger meme got stale and we lost interest. Pretty funny image though, so check it out.
In other news, I made a bunch of subtle tweaks all over the site. Now all the copyright dates are correct. Well, let’s rephrase that. I get lazy about going through the whole site each year and changing all the dates, and I’m not enough of a coding wizard to install a site-wide auto-updating line of date code. Thus, now it just says “© Evan Hayden” instead of  “© YEAR Evan Hayden”. It’s my copyrighted work, regardless of the year anyway. I can see you falling asleep from here, so I’ll get onto the other site tweaks… I also redid some of the thumbnails on the Design page to better reflect their content, mostly notably in the album packaging (square thumbnails now to give a quick preview of the whole album cover), and in the logos (thin borders on the thumbnail boxes now to make everything more cohesive). The other change I made was in taking most of the text on the screen and bumping it up a size. In my opinion, this isn’t as pretty as delicate small text on the page, but it’s more readable in general, and I was getting tired of leaning so close to my monitor to read my own dang site! (and others mentioned to me that the old font was too small as well). So in general these tweaks mean better accessibility for others, and less updating headaches for me!

*whew!*

I’m finally done with the revamp of evanhaydenart.com. As I mentioned, there may be some bugs here and there. If you spot anything, please let me know. Here’s what I’ve changed…

• Design and layout. Fancier looking now, more colorful, and with darker accents. If you get nostalgic for the old look, you can take a peek at it here.
• Added the Music page. Not much on it yet, as I’m just getting back into making music after a long hiatus.
• Simplified some of the pages.
• Moved the blog here, and replaced the main index page with a fancy landing page.
• Made things load better on mobile devices
• Fixed a lot of the problems with how things load on Safari & IE.

I also added several new (and a couple older) bits & pieces to the gallery pages… To the Illustration gallery, I added “Ting Terng” (something I did for the “covers” art jam on the Electric Ant blog), “Happy Birthday Will” (an illustration for a friend-of-a-friend’s birthday), and “Blind Beast” (NSFW! A piece I did for Electric Ant issue 2). To the Design gallery, I added some examples of my graphic design and layout for Electric Ant issue 2, and from the vaults, I added “The World of Same Hat!” (the cover to a sampler of Same Hat!, a blog I cofounded with my best friend Ryan.) Yay!

Known bugs:

• For some reason on all pages except the blog, if you hit ctrl+click (for example to open a link in a new tab), or hit right-click on the mouse, the page will redirect you to the index landing page. This is an annoying bug, and I’m hoping one of my more seasoned programmer friends can help me fix it. *hint hint*. For now, just hit back in the browser if it does that to you. I’m hoping to fix this asap.
• On a smaller note, I need to tweak the way the outline formatting is on the thumbnails on the gallery index pages. I’m very sleepy now, but I’ll try to get that cleaned up in the next couple days.

Special thanks to Ryan, Melinda, Dawon, and Jason for helping me to test the design on a variety of resolutions, operating systems, and browsers!

Anyway, enjoy the new site! I have a couple new illustrated-photo works coming in the next couple weeks, so look forward to that

Hey kiddos, it’s that time again! Alternative Press Expo is almost upon us, and you should come and visit my table! I will be there with my buddies Ryan Sands, Hellen Jo, Derek Yu, Calvin Wong, Anthony Wu, and Ryan Germick, and we will be selling all kinds of comics, zines, prints, and other goodies. Keep reading for info…

INFO…
Saturday October 17th, 11am-7pm
Sunday October 18th, 11am-6pm

The Concourse
620 7th Street, San Francisco CA
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Here’s a map of where we’re gonna be in the building (we’re called “Bang Gang”, and are at table #418)

This will be the debut of issue 2 of “Electric Ant” – the comics & literary anthology zine that I do with Ryan Sands. Several of the contributors in the book will be at the show, so be sure to come.

Come on by, say hi, and buy some shit!!!