How to Write Your Website Copy: Hire a Copywriter
There is one huge roadblock we see time and time again in web…
Spigot
An Inside Look at Spigot Design
Michele Roepke wrote an article about Spigot Design for the TownLift highlighting some…
Goodbye Sweet Tweets
I've been using Twitter since 2008, and for reasons I'll explain, I've been…
All My Instagrams Are MINE
There was a time in the early days of social media that I…
New Site Launch: Park City Fire District
When we migrated to Park City in 2007, we brought with us a…
Admitted WOT Fanantic
I don't play as many games as I used to, for all the…
Goodbye This is a Generic Brand Video
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtspm8j8M] Up until about a week ago the home page of Spigot…
Fight for Space
I'm very glad to have chosen design as a career path. But if…
The Expert
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg] I can say with absolutely relative certainty that we've never received a…
Meskel Square, Addis Abeba
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEIn8GJIg0E] I could watch this little bit of organized chaos all day.
Blood Moon Eclipse
I'm an admitted space nerd. I love anything doing with space, NASA, or…
The Heartbleed OpenSSL Bug
On Monday, security researchers announced a security flaw in OpenSSL, the defacto standard…
Opening Day
While I don't think Opening Day should be a national holiday, I do…
Tesla, and Why Buying A Car Is So Awful
With the recent news about New Jersey kicking Tesla out of their state,…
Real Salt Lake
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1DJ008t9Y] We took the kids to see Real Salt Lake defeat LA Galaxy…
Elegant Gentleman’s Animated Paintings
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-7IV2qryiQ&w=650] This is a bit different than the illustrated videos I usually post,…
What’s your Style?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhjYZp6DENE&w=650] Even though I'm not a fan of the mustache, I can certainly…
Gorging Movie
The canyons of southern Utah are such a unique and beautiful place, and…
Tim Carvell’s History’s Notable Persons Reconsidered: Harry Houdini
It’s unlikely, but you’ve got to admit: It’d be pretty awesome if, one…
Goodbye to a great client
It's a bittersweet day as KPCW radio in Park City will be going…
Prismacolor Markers
I bought this set of Prismacolor double ended markers in design school nearly…
The Spigot Rorschach Test
Quick, take a look below and what do you see? Over the last…
The sign of legitimacy
After all these years, behold a pale shingle. Is this the coming of…
The Frog
A paper route was my very first job as a kid, starting in…
Tangerine Tango – Flylow Color of the Year
As a designer, Pantone's annual announcement of their Color of the Year is…
Off the Grid is Off the Air
It was a short run, but Off the Grid is now kaputz. It…
Shiny the Bearded Dragon
Our son Tory got to bring his preschool class' pet Bearded Dragon, Shiny,…
Total Lunar Eclipse
I woke up early this morning to find the moon looking a little…
Boss Hog Canyoneering
[caption id="attachment_4337" align="alignnone" caption="Kari heading into the Hogs, the Henry's in the background."][/caption]…
March Fourth Marching Band
We don't get out on the town as much as we used to,…
Raised Bed Garden
After suffering complete failure (due to climate and critters) with our 4×4 gardens…
Sassafras Floral
After years of nagging, my sister Sarah is allowing me to upgrade their…
Off the Grid
Update: Off the Grid is now Off the Air. All the stuff that…
Paper Airplane: Cobra
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X34CGZ5UZoQ] With a 4-year-old boy in the house we make a lot…
D300 outta commission
After sending in my favorite lens for repair a few weeks back, I’ve…
Natural Spider Killer
Here’s Kari’s chemical free, essential oil based spider killer spray. We use it…
Brewing: Negra Cerveza
Getting back on the home brew bandwagon. After a successful IPA this spring,…
Spigot featured on Mediaqueri.es
Media Queries has kindly featured spigotdesign.com in their gallery of sites that use…
Now with HTML5
It wasn't that long ago since our last major site rebuild, and yet…
Rebuilding Spigot (again)
For the last year and a half Spigot has been building client sites…