Welcome to my new portfolio of design – The Jason Effect. Previously (as of five minutes prior to this post) it was simply a blog that I posted my day-to-day thoughts on. While it is certainly that still, I’ve revamped the entire site to bring focus towards a more professional portfolio. The site you see is the result of days of hard work creating and deploying a brand new website – something I hope to do quite a bit, since I’m looking for freelance work! (Yes, potential client, that plug was just for you.)

So please enjoy my new portfolio – although a bunch has yet to be set up, expect everything to be 100% complete in the coming days. I’ve already put up my most recent work, so take a look at that in the meantime. And if you’re a previous visitor wondering what the heck just happened to this site, read on for a full list of all the changes made to the locations of, well, everything!

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The Jason Effect has always been my own personal repository of information, writing, art, and more – however, I recognized that I didn’t give the humble blog enough attention. It was time for a drastic shift in focus; the blog needed to change into something more.

Since then, I have redesigned the site from the ground up to work as a personal portfolio of design, photography, music and writing. The site hosts all of my latest work, and all of the previous work I feel is worth sharing, including my photography, artwork, novels and short stories, musical compositions, and graphic design.

I hope you enjoy looking at the site, browsing around and viewing my work, as much as I enjoyed recreating it into the new The Jason Effect. It took many revisions to wind up at its current incarnation, so I hope I’ve made something to be proud of!

The final revision - click to view the full-size version.

Previous Draft Revisions

Draft #1

The final design didn’t come in a day. In fact, I went through two other full drafts before deciding upon the style I wanted. In the first draft, I had gone for a cherry-red wooden desk with a typewriter at the bottom shoving out paper posts. However, although this design probably could have succeeded, it felt too tightly designed for me. I knew that, to live up to that design, I would have to embark on a journey I wasn’t fully prepared to do – the style no longer intrigued me.

Frustrated, I set out to define a completely new and radical style for The Jason Effect, based heavily off of the style of vector artwork present on sites such as Vimeo.

Draft #2

I had planned to create an incredibly detailed and colorful miniature world for a final design, but after I’d finished the initial draft I became torn between the two draft revisions.

Not entirely satisfied with either revision, I combined what I felt were the best elements of both – the wooden beauty and paper of the first draft, and the simplistic content area of the second draft. The result was the single-column layout with the horizontal top navigation of the final design. The content area was kept clean of unnecessary elements (such as what would have been complex perforated edges and artificial stylistic tears in the pages) to give the layout a simple, fresh look.