So what have I’ve been doing for the last few weeks? I’m happy to announce the launch of GRUNT at gruntdesign.com. This is my new business identity and a step forward in my freelance career. CurtisHenson.com started out as a portfolio, and then became a blog, I recently redesigned the site to try and incorporate a portfolio but wasn’t happy with it. So I decided to separate the man from the myth(or something like that).

I decided to build an identity around a logo I had done, which is pretty much ass backwards from the way most people would do it. The gorilla was originally for a side project but now fronts the GRUNT name which I truly believe is an appropriate name and identity for me(being the megalomaniac I am). Domain inspiration came from my friend Will, which also included several other “colorful” suggestions.

The website is built on what else but WordPress, backed up by jQuery and the usual suspects. The portfolio is still going to get attention(i.e. — I need to find all that stuff), pagination and some separation. But if I didn’t launch it, I would tinker with it for another few years. So expect a few more features and eye candy in the future.

So what about curtishenson.com?

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes. Well just a few. I always thought this current design was a bit busy and crowded, so I’ll be opening things up and creating white space(dark space?). I’m also going to get rid of everything that doesn’t have to do with a blog or me. A reorganization of content is coming which will also probably mean some more regular posting and more RSS feeds so you can tune how high the crap pushed to your RSS reader gets.

There is also going to be a new sub-site which is going to contain all the downloads and side projects I do and maybe even a support forum as the comments are getting a little crowded for Checkmate.

New Projects

Just a quick heads up on some projects. I promise I am going to get started on Checkmate ver. 2.0, which will be light years ahead of the current version, as soon as I get some time. I’ve also started programming a lifestream/tumblelog app in ruby on rails, so look for that in the future.