About the Author (circa 2006)
Shaun has always tinkered. From dissassembling his sleeping father’s alarm clock as a child, to forcing your browser into displaying non-standard typefaces. The process of learning, building and iterating are reward enough—the occasional success and recognition that results are just icing on the cake.
Shaun went to public school in Norwood, Massachusetts. He then fled the Northeast for the Savannah College of Art & Design. While there his studies focused mostly on print design until his senior year when his eyes finally opened to the web’s potential as a communication medium.
After graduation Shaun moved to Baltimore and endured a freelance dry spell by teaching himself PHP & MySQL and creating Designologue. When the work truly dried up and student loans kicked in he accepted a job back in Boston as a graphic designer with TechTarget.
Over the course of the following two years Shaun built a relationship with a small web firm based in Baltimore called Silverpoint, first doing freelance for their non-school clients which evently resulted in a full-time opportunity allowing Shaun to return to Baltimore. Starting as a Designer/Producer working with clients big and small, he accepted the role of Production Architect, the maintainer of company-wide production standards in addition to his previous responsibilities, before leaving Silverpoint in September ‘05.
Since that time Shaun has been focused on the continued development and support of the curiously successful website analytics program Mint. Shaun has worked with Leslie Jensen (now Jensen-Inman) and MORE LLC as designer/developer on their new site as well as a handful of projects with Jason Santa Maria, Rob Weychert and Kevin Cornell. Shaun has also been contributing news to StyleGala since December 2004.
His work has been featured or mentioned in numerous print publications and around the web. These include:
- Web Builder 135
- Web Designer 110
- CSS Mastery and Bulletproof Web Design for miscellaneous JavaScript contributions
- Featured artist in Photoshop: Secrets of the Pros and The Zen of CSS Design
- Technical editor of The Zen of CSS Design and Stylin’ with CSS
- His two CSS Zen Garden designs (1,2), Inman Flash Replacement and Designologue appear in CSS Praxis, Stylesheet Stylebook, Web Designer 2.0 and Page magazine
While Shaun is now taking a brief hiatus from conferences and the like he has spoken at the following events:
- Streamlining Site Production and Design with CSS + Responsible Interaction Design with AJAX for AIGA Baltimore, May 23 (Baltimore, MD)
- Responsible Asynchronous Scripting, IceWeb 2006 (Iceland)
- South By South West Interactive 2006 (Austin, TX)
- Carson Workshops Summit - The Future of Web Apps (London, UK)
- Cre824 - Webdesign International Festival (Chattanooga, TN)
- South By South West Interactive 2005 (Austin, TX)
- The Blue Collar Design Symposium (Banner Elk, NC)
Shaun has received the following recognition:
- Mint was named “Favorite New Form of Refreshment” in The Morning News 2006 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence
- Mint was recognized as Best Web App in the 2005 Artypapers Awards
- Choate.edu recognized as an Official Honoree Selection in the 10th Annual Webby Awards
- Choate.edu awarded Bronze in the CASE District I 2005-2006 Communication Awards
- SXSW 2006 Web Award finalist for Best Blog
- SXSW 2005 Web Award winner for Best Blog
- Web Standards Award Winner and Site of the Month, June 2005 for version 8 of ShaunInman.com (the current version as of this writing).
- Web Standards Award Winner, February 2004 for version 7 of ShaunInman.com. Three additional projects he was involved in also won WSAs:
- The October Skin was awarded Gallery All Star for November 2004 on StyleGala and remains one of the top rated submissions
More information about Shaun can be found in the interview with Justin Goodlett, “Shaun Inman Speaks” (mirrored here), in an interview on Notable Words, Shaun Inman on Writing, in the free inaugural issue of Particle Tree’s Treehouse magazine and in Profile: Shaun Inman from WebDesigner 110 .
