Author Archives: Erik
Comics Simplifying the Hideously Complex
I love seeing this sort of thing: an MIT professor explains health care reform in comics form. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is around 1,900 pages and 400,000 words. I’m sure that most lawmakers have not read the … Continue reading
Vultures Everywhere: Domain Service Notice
If you’re the listed contact on your domain registration, you’re going to face scammers. They’re hoping you’re a bit nervous and uncertain about what it means to have your domain name registered. After all, it can be confusing to people … Continue reading
Sunni Brown: Doodlers, Unite!
Frequent Square Bear partner, the amazing Sunni Brown, talks about the value of doodling. I always knew that I listened better while doodling in the margins and that visual thinking was important. But as this video shows, Sunni is amazing … Continue reading
Texas Career Pathways
An instructional animation created for Texas Career Pathways, done in partnership with Pattern Productions. The brief was to explain how the Texas Career Pathways website helps people pursue higher education whether you’re a high school student, in college or looking … Continue reading
Zenoss IT Operations
An animation designed to explain how Zenoss helps companies manage their cloud and physical infrastructure. Doing the traffic was a bit of a challenge, but turned out to be a lot of fun. Produced in partnership with Sunni Brown of … Continue reading
Terrible Older Browsers, Your Time Has Come
Anyone remember my New Year’s Resolution for you? If you didn’t pay any attention to it, Google is stepping in to make your life harder. Finally, a major company is saying enough… old versions of browsers are holding the Web … Continue reading