Visual Lizard
Julian Moffatt
Julian is one of the founders of Visual Lizard Inc and a web/tech-junkie if there ever was one. He has a small collection of iPods (3 and counting) and a Blackberry 7250 for those times he is actually away from his computer.
Having been first introduced to computers at the tender age of 6, Julian has had at one point or another: an IBM PC XT, an Apple 2e, a Fujikama 286 (with a 256 colour monitor!!) through to the first computer he personally purchased, a glorious 486 PC with 40MBs of hard drive space and a 16-bit graphics card for $4200 in 1990. Coincidentally, that was his first loan as well. However, it was the 486 that led to the discovery of newsgroups (remember alt.rocknroll before Usenet?) and Pine, the worlds worst application for email ever. In-fact, some would say that his addiction to X-com and Pine caused him to take a break from University to pursue "something to do with computers dad". The rest is history as they say.
He works with a MacBook Pro in the office and is equally at home in front of Linux, Windows or OS X operating systems. He is project manager, design shepherd (he speaks designer fluently and has been known to run in certain design circles under an alias) and CSS guru. He also brow beats the guys in the office about accessibility, Search Engine Optimization and the importance of music to the soul.
When Julian is not actually working, he can be found enjoying time at the hockey rink with the guys, beating small synthetic dimpled balls across acres of manicured land or just hanging out with family and friends at home or the cottage.
In spite of all of the above, Julian has an awesome wife, two crazy-cute daughters (5 and 3), 2 cats and a dog that has moved out citing breach of contract under the "no-child-and-dog-cohabiting" clause. She visits from time to time, but can be found relaxing on a pile of sheep-skins at the grandparents house most days.
-
For Julian’s contact information, please add my vCard to your address book.
A Website
Well, this is it. Welcome to the new visuallizard.com web site. Yes. It took long enough. We know.
We could make any number of excuses, such as:
- the client kept us busy
- the dog ate our Information Architecture
- our iPod that had the site on it crashed (sorry Wil)
- the client kept us busy
- our designer (me) kept throwing out his designs and starting over
- our copy writers (us) kept throwing out our copy and starting over
- did we mention the client kept us busy?
But we won't make excuses. That would be lame.
Over the next few months, there will be a new design on the site (yeah. I know. I'm insane, but I can't help it. It is in my blood.), we will be posting various articles on design, web development, programming and technology.
We have been working towards this for years and we now finally have a system in place to do everything we had hoped we could do online. It took a long time, but it was well worth the wait.
Comments are open, let us know what you think!
Comments
From The Web
Raising minimalist children in a society of excess
Very awesome, and timely, link from Mr. Kottke. Worth the read.
Linked by Julian Moffatt
The Wilderness Downtown
Arcade Fire + HTML 5 and CSS = amazing!
Linked by Julian Moffatt
#$%@ You
Catchy new song by Cee Lo Green, one half of Gnarls Barkley. NSFW.
Linked by Julian Moffatt
NES Hard Drives
These might be my favorite thing this August. Go get one now.
Linked by Julian Moffatt
The State of The Internet
A nicely animated set of motiongraphics by Jess3. Stats as of the end of 2009.
Linked by Julian Moffatt
HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.
very nice indeed!
Linked by Julian Moffatt
CloudApp
CloudApp has launched and it looks like it could replace dropbox.
Linked by Julian Moffatt