As you can probably tell by now, my name is Eric Murray. I was born in 1980.
I was a graduate from the Herron School of Art with a B.F.A. in Visual Communication. Herron
is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, where I was born and continue to reside. Herron is a
sattelite campus of a much bigger school, Indiana University. I liked school a lot, and
particularly the friends I made and the professors I had an opportunity to study with.
Below is a small picture of most of the students in the Visual Communication class of 2003.
Our professor Christopher Vice is also in there.
The photo was taken by my mother at our annual VC senior show. She was very proud.
This site was coded by hand in BBEdit and is written in XHTML 1.1 Transitional and CSS 2.
What makes this really cool is that the design/layout of the site is completely separate from
the structure/content of the site. If you take a look at the source code, you will notice
that there is not one single TABLE tag to be found. I am proud of that fact. I will admit
that it is the first time I have built a website in this manner and it is not completely
standards compliant yet, but I am working on it.
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator helped with all of the graphical elements of the site,
Transmit was used to upload files to my server,
Safari was used for most of the testing, and
iTunes kept me sane while looking at lines and
lines of code.
There are currently 3 different display fonts on this site and they are:
Neutraface, by House Industries,
Mrs. Eaves, by Emigre,
and Unibody 8, by Underware.
Hardware used included an old Apple iMac DV+
, a new Powerbook G4,
and one Bialetti Moka Pot.
Sites like A list Apart, and the
w3c made this site a lot easier to make. I should
also thank sites like Kaliber 10,000 (who provided
the original background pattern, which I manipulated), and
Speak Up a weblog that every designer should read.