Silver-Lining
Yesterday marked my final day at Silverpoint. While I couldn’t be more excited about having the entire table to myself I will miss the camaraderie and collaboration that we’ve enjoyed for the past two and a half years.
During that time I led the transition from one-off, table-based designs to a flexible, modular and most importantly, reusable standards-based framework. It’s been more than a year since Silverpoint’s first CSS-based site launched—leading the independent school web design market—and surprisingly the competition still hasn’t wised up. I’ve also had the opportunity to produce some beautiful work with the small, dedicated team and in my absence Silverpoint will continue to produce beautiful work. As I leave, capable hands abound and I wish everyone the best.
So what’s next? First up is giving Tic-tacs a run for their money with more hush-hushed delusions of entrepreneurial grandeur in the spirit of Coudal Partners and 37signals to follow. I don’t plan on taking on any new clients yet but I will be collaborating with some familiar faces in the coming months. There’s also a good chance I’ll be making appearances at this year’s cre824 and SXSW 2006. And who knows, the code snippets and recycled wisdom that trickles out of ShaunInnman.com may even increase in frequency.
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Best of luck to you in your new ventures, Shaun. I know you’ll do well.
Good luck on your new ventures buddy, I enjoy your website religiously.
Good luck with your future career.
And hope that Mint will come minty and fresh.
About time, Shaun. Best wishes.
Shaun, I’m envious and excited for you. Best of luck and keep us all in the loop.
Great to hear! Good luck Shaun — I’m sure you’ll do amazing for yourself. I’m excited to hear what you’ll be up to. And I’m waiting with baited (or maybe bad? eww) breath for Mint…
We’ll miss ya, champ.
FYI: Your office has already been converted into a lounge. Bean bag chairs and love beads, baby.
Congrats on the transition and best of luck with all your new efforts.
Good luck with everything. I’ve been bugging Stan for a couple of weeks now to hook me up with a sneak peak, but alas you must have an iron clad NDA on him.
I’ll be expecting great things. Particularly at South By.
Thanks everyone, I’m aiming to please.
First time commenting - been a fan for some time now. Congrats on Mint - it’s sure to be a hit. I was impressed with the 3 previews I’ve read thus far - can’t wait to see more.
Best of luck, old man. A word of advice: Don’t start staring at the walls. When you’re home all day, they become indescribably fascinating. Trust me, just keep your head down, concentrate, and you’ll be fine.
We love you Shaun!!!! * waving arms * Good luck with Mint! I for one can’t bloody wait. Signed, your faithful webapp groupie Lisa ;-)
Congratulations and keep up the great work! A lot of folks here are very excitied about the possibility of you making it to Chattanooga in Novemeber.
Best wishes to yah
Man, this is ridiculous! Are there any designers left still working a normal dayjob? :-)
Good luck with all your ventures. I’ll have a beer mint for you in celebration…
Best wishes from me, too! And don’t forget releasing an EP, won’t you?
It seems that freelancing is the new black. If I hadn’t landed an awesome job recently, I’d be doing the same.
Congratulations !!! and hell-yeah to releasing an EP.
I can’t get my brother (a non-designer) to stop singing “What’s the Word”.
Best of luck! Looking forward to the minty fresh future.
i join the chorus of well-wishers. And re: yr Tic-tac-toc… i would be happy with a couple of screenshots, if this is possible. don’t need the demo. thx
Good Luck Shawn. Are you staying around B-more?
Good luck Shaun, just been checking out Mint, with work like that you won’t need it! Best Wishes.
Good work
Good luck, mint looks great!
All the best with your upcoming collaborations Shaun. Lovin’ Shortstat and perparing for a plunge into the world of Mint.
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Goodluck and I’m looking forward to the mints :)
Very nice program. I read your recent interview in Treehouse Magazine. Very interesting. Keep up the good work.
Very nice indeed. Mint is really awsome, good luck in future projects!