For web designers, the chasm between static mockups and the final website has always been vast. It’s a lot like the path from concept art to a completed film; the artist creates a painted vision for what they hope a particular scene will look like, but it’s impossible to account for the actual motion that will eventually define it. Websites are living, moving, and ever-evolving entities, while design mockups are momentary, simple, static paintings.
Blog posts tagged with: Development
Automating Plugin/Module Updates on Pantheon
Updating WordPress plugins and Drupal modules is a pain, but it can become unmanageable when you have dozens or hundreds of sites. Pixo has automated the process to apply all plugin and module updates on Pantheon sites with a simple command. In this post, we explain how to use this automation and we share the code.
Illuminating the Union’s “Cool Factor”
Pixo created a modern and super-functional website for The Illini Union that unifies all of the diverse services the Union offers as well as increases foot traffic and student investment. The Union’s new website was unveiled on January 17th, 2014 at union. illinois.
Pixo lends expertise to help eliminate the digital divide
Last week, Pixo launched an exciting new website, DigitalLearn. org, created for and led by the Public Library Association (PLA), and launched in conjunction with a national digital literacy campaign by the Ad Council for EveryoneOn and Connect2Compete (a national nonprofit on a mission to eliminate the digital divide for all Americans). The goal of DigitalLearn.
Tyler Edwards
Tyler Edwards
Graphic Designer
Tyler joined the Pixo team in 2014. As a graphic designer, Tyler guides the look and feel of web and mobile app development to ensure it accomplishes its impact and visual goals. He has extensive experience designing top-selling mobile applications, including the Wolfram|Alpha app for iOS, that (although internally robust), are both beautiful and a pleasure to use. As a (distant) student of the Bauhaus, Tyler’s work displays his affinity for the marriage of design and technology. He believes that form should never be impeded by function, but inspired by it.
After graduating from Illinois State University in 2010, Tyler married his best friend, Stacey, and moved to Champaign-Urbana. When he’s not at Pixo, Tyler enjoys watching movies that fit into the genre “action/sci-fi with a hint of comedy”, listening to and playing music, reading books from old theologians, trying new restaurants with Stacey, and sharing a dark stout in the company of good friends. Tyler is also an active member of his church where he enjoys preaching on occasion, leading a small group with his wife, and serving as a graphic designer for the church.
EDUCATION
Illinois State University — B.S. in Graphic Design
Spoon River College — A.S. Certificate in Graphic and Web Design
EMPLOYMENT
Pixo, 2014-Present — Graphic Designer
Wolfram Research, 2011–2014 — Graphic Designer
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