Luke Dorny
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Who: Luke Dorny
Luke Dorny is a graphic designer and web designer. He also creates package designs, print and periodical designs, as well as corporate identity pieces. Currently he's quite involved in all of these areas.
Where: California
I live in Long Beach, California with my wonderful wife and young son, the Pterodactyl.
I enjoy travelling and had the opportunity to live in various places around the world, including Seattle, Berlin/Dahlem-Dorf, Ewa Beach (Hawaii), Yokosuka (Japan), Mar del Plata (Argentina), Salt Lake City, and Huntington Beach & Long Beach, California.
What
I enjoy helping friends and colleagues redesign their sites into proper Web Standards, but mostly I'm a graphic (read: print) designer-turned web designer with a passion for typography, geometry, automation, and CSS.
Why
I've existed in various online domains and forums on the web, but I'd never thought about using my own name domain as a central hub that links to all that I'm involved with online until now. You'll be seeing more links and posts about what I've been doing online for the last 12 years or so as time goes on.
Also (just pretend like you're interested)
I've been messing with web design since around 1996 when I made a website that had steelplate buttons with hover functionality for a Latvian bank and communications companies. Things picked up a bit when I finally jumped into the Flash arena (sort of) with a full, flash-based website in 1999 for a client. Total site size was over 4MB(!), but it did have a preloader and at least it had dynamic swf loaders for all sub content! Some of you may have been making flash-based sites back then, too. Flash 4 was all teh rag0r!
I still create websites. …for friends, family, businesses, organizations, etc. I've learned quite a bit in the last 11 years of webdesign. I've been studying Web Design Standards since 2003 when Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden was released in May of that year. That was the beginning of enlightenment.
I use flickr.com to post screenshots of websites and other design items that grab my attention. Usually of interface ideas, inspiration, errors, sore-thumbs that could be so much better, but usually of Mac OS X software that I deem useful or simply cool. It's a funny diversion, and provides a semi historical image history with links. As a result, flickr has become my blog, my inspiration, my outlet, and occasionally a place where i post actual photos! Please visit me and my flickr photos to see what I mean. Usually it's something upload-worthy, but doubtful. Humor me.
Thanks for visiting. Get in touch,
Luke Dorny