Welcome!

The Graphics Workshop is the personal and professional website of Paige Howarth. It contains a portfolio of the artist's work, including personal and professional graphic design print pieces, paintings, drawings, and flash animations. You will also find the Sign Shoppe, which provides information on my part-time signmaking enterprise, located in Middletown, Connecticut. Ordering information, samples of signage and signcraft resources are all provided. Please also visit my blog. I frequently update it with interesting tidbits and computer graphics tutorials.

Updates 1.31.08

The Graphics Workshop now offers Custom Wall Decals for your dorm, office or nursery. Stay tuned for some cool examples of work!

Updates 10.02.07

This isn't an update per se, I just find it amazing that I created this site over 8 months ago. I swear I'll be posting news of an updated Sign Shop page before 2008.

Updates 3.25.07

Ericka told me to put my paintings & stuff online, so here they are. I took most of these photos 1 year ago! I could procrastinate forever.

Updates 2.07.07

Got some flashy-type stuff over there. Really, I'm almost done. Dress up those transluscent boxes, add a few more flash effects, and I will have completed my most ambitious personal webpage in some time.

Updates 1.30.07

Oh, thanks heavens. I finally got the RSS feed to work. Times like these, I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm a professional web designer. What can I say- I'm a print guy. For anyone interested out there, use SimplePie for RSS feed parsing. I tried almost a dozen scripts, and this one is tops for simplicity.

Next up is somehow centering this page and repositioning these text boxes (they are absolutely positioned now). [update: done!] And FINALLY, getting some cool flash effects in the middle and bottom divs. (At last, a battle fought in MY territory!)

Recent Blog Entries:

The Carpet that Failed to Load

by Richard Hutten

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Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

According to its website, Visual Literacy is an "e-learning site focused on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations." If this sounds suspiciously like managerial Dilbert-speak, you're not alone. But there is ...

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Flash Preloaders: A Retrospective

Pretty Loaded is an online museum of flash preloaders culled from the vast interwebs. Each preloader is handpicked and high-quality, resulting in a wonderful range of inspired flashiness. Enjoy!

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