What's a Made Mistakes?
Behind the Name and Designer
What’s a Made Mistakes?
So why the title “made mistakes”? It vaguely has something to do with that whole happy accident thing, where a mistake can turn out to be something great and unplanned. But to be honest I was just looking for a short, memorable sounding domain name.
In May of 2004 I purchased mademistakes.com, and threw up a Macromedia Flash splash (hey remember those?) while I worked on building a design portfolio using Movable Type. For the next couple of years I would experiment with various content management systems (Movable Type → Textpattern → Wordpress → Indexhibit), developing minimalistic themes and learning what I could about HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and MySQL databases.
I’ve since decided to go CMS-free and utilize black magick and Jekyll to manage the site with static text files. I like knowing how things work behind the scenes so hand-coding the layouts and stylesheets is the only way to go. Not being limited by a CMS is a wonderful thing…
And Who Are You Again?
Oh hey — I’m Michael Rose, just another bearded, tattooed, time traveling, designer and illustrator working in Buffalo, New York. I’m into drawing faceless portraits of strangers on an iPad using Paper by FiftyThree, movie theater popcorn, chicken wings done right, dust collecting record collections, and over using ellipses and em-dashes.
Oh, and I’m a recent father of twin girls and will someday help redesign my wife’s blog…