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It's New Now Portfolios

Nov 02, 2006

I’m only happy with my work for short periods of time. When I first put something together, I’ll love it for a few days and then it’s old to me. I’m sure any artist, writer, designer or musician feels the same way, it’s our drive. For me, everything new I do has to be that much better than the last. It’s hard sometimes to decide when I’m happy enough with a piece to stop working on it, say it’s complete, and that it pushed my old work to new places. I never feel that way about it again when I create something newer.

In my years as a freelancer, whenever meeting with a new client, I would create a completely new digital portfolio from scratch starting just a few days before our initial meeting. Its the only way that I knew the work that I showed was the best that I could present. Even this site will grow old quickly for me and you’ll find the designs will never stay the same for long. I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone, but that’s just what I do.

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Brad's AvatarI'm Brad Cooper, a user experience designer and front-end programmer with a passion for actualizing visions. I strive to create a piece of art in each site that I put together both visually and technically.

I'm an advocate of web standards and open source.

I work outside Philadelphia, PA and live in Marlton, NJ.

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