Gerren Design

Hey, welcome to

Gerren Design

. This is the personal website of yours truly,

Gerren Rabideau

. Im an

Illustrator

,

Coder

, and all around

uber-geek

. This is my little corner of the internet; I use it to showcase my

illustration artwork

and my

web design

portfolio. By day I work full time as a

web designer

making the internet look better one page at a time, but by night I like to

paint

.

What do I paint you ask?
Mostly,

watercolor fantasy and sci-fi illustrations

, but I also dabble in editorial and digital work as well. Plus, I also keep a blog of whatever else I decide to write about;

comic books, traveling, color theory, how much IE sucks

, etc...

Crashing the Rescue party

Szimpla Kert

(Szimpla Kert on the left) Have you ever noticed how all of the impressionist paintings end up looking like this? Really colorful and fuzzy... Monet must have been smashed 24/7.

The end of my week has turned out pretty good. Just before the end of the day I finally (and for all time) fixed sIFR. The design team has been trying to push the use of a new piece of CSS/JavaScript/Flash technology called sIFR with the new website we are building. Basically, it allows us to create webpages with any font we want rather than be limited to Arial, Tahoma, and Verdana. sIFR on its own works great, but when we combine it with multiple languages and and a specialty font like "Info" it tends to choke on some special characters. For example, like these; ² and ℠

So how did I fix that? I created my own font. oh yeah, I rule.

Then, about a half hour after I finished that, the Budapest office had a little party to celebrate the recent release of Rescue 6.0. The Rescue team did an amazing job with it and deserved some much needed "R" and "R".

The company bought three rooms worth of these little sandwich thingies, and 25 bottles of champagne.

Gerzson (design director)

Barbie (designer) and Kata (localization). They are both a little camera shy.

Adam (principal designer), my new boss is also a little camera shy... he actually said I stole his soul... hehehe.

Derek (designer) being a little lame and not drinking. It's ok though, it just isn't his thing.

Sean Jorden (with drink), perhaps the coolest guy working out of the Budapest office. He actually took Derek and I out one night the last time we were here. He saw me on the street today (random) and couldn't figure out where he knew me from. I'd be hurt, but he just flew in from Cuba and was jet-lagged too.

Me!

After most of the people went home, it was just Derek, Kata, Gerzson, Adam, and I left. We killed off the last two bottles of champagne. I personally had six or seven glasses, and was having a really good time with my friends.

Eventually we had to leave too, but the night wasn't over. There was a Rescue after party at Szimpla Kert; the beer garden that I had a really good time at on the last trip. Derek just went back to the hotel, which left me to walk there on my own. Lucky I had the forethought to look at a map and memorize the directions (5 block down, 2 to the left). Once I got there I didn't drink much more, but I ended up staying there with Sean, Lazslo, Kata, and Gerzson until around midnight.


 

 

 

 

Lazslo, Gerzson, Kata


 

 

Sean making friends


 

 

Comments



see.... I knew you would have a good time at some point :)

I'm glad your finally having a good time!

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I'v just started to learn this language ;)
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo

Hello !!! ^_^
I am Piter Kokoniz. Just want to tell, that I like your blog very much!
And want to ask you: is this blog your hobby?
Sorry for my bad english:)
Tnx!
Piter.

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