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title: About
headline: What's a Made Mistake?
subheadline: About MM and the Designer Behind It
date: 2012-03-22
description: "You've found the about page of <NAME> &ndash; a graphic designer working in Buffalo, New York."
image: michael-rose-goofy.jpg
keywords: 
- Michael Rose
- graphic design
- design
- designer
- Buffalo
- print
- catalog design
- web design
- mmistakes
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	<h2>Who Are You?</h2>
	<p>Hi. I’m <NAME>, just another boring, tattooed, time traveling, graphic designer from Buffalo, New York. I have too many vinyl records that I don’t recall buying, have no problem spending 99&cent; on interesting iOS games, enjoy eating movie theater popcorn more than seeing films, and over use ellipses and en-dashes in most of my writing.</p>
	<p>Oh, and soon to be father of twins&hellip;</p>

	<h2>What Is This All About?</h2>
	<p>So why the title &ldquo;made mistakes?&rdquo; It vaguely has something to do with that whole happy accident thing, where a mistake can turn out to be something great and unplanned. But to be honest I was just looking for memorable sounding domain name.</p>
	<p>In May of 2004 I purchased mademistakes.com, and threw up a splash page while I worked on building a design portfolio using <em>Movable Type</em>. For the next couple of years I would experiment with various content management systems (<a href="http://www.movabletype.org/">Movable Type</a> &rarr; <a href="http://textpattern.com/">Textpattern</a> &rarr; <a href="http://wordpress.org/">Wordpress</a> &rarr; <a href="http://www.indexhibit.org/">Indexhibit</a> &rarr; <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a>), developing minimalistic themes and learning what I could about <abbr>HTML</abbr>, <abbr>CSS</abbr>, Javascript, and <abbr>PHP</abbr>.</p>
	<p>I&rsquo;ve since decided to go <abbr title="Content Management System">CMS</abbr>-free and manage the website using flat-static files, with the hope of having greater control over each page&rsquo;s presentation &ndash; <em>sup art directed blog posts?</em></p>
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	<h2>Connect with Me</h2>
	<ul class="icons unstyled">
        <li><i class="icon-twitter-sign"></i> <a href="http://twitter.com/mmistakes" title="<NAME> on Twitter">Twitter</a></li>
        <li><i class="icon-facebook-sign"></i> <a href="http://facebook.com/michaelrose" title="<NAME> on Facebook">Facebook</a></li>
        <li><i class="icon-linkedin-sign"></i> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelrose" title="<NAME> on LinkedIn">LinkedIn</a></li>
        <li><i class="icon-google-plus-sign"></i> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/118238196859537351707/about?rel=author" title="<NAME> on Google+">Google+</a></li>
        <li><i class="icon-rss"></i> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MadeMistakes" title="Made Mistakes RSS Feed">RSS</a></li>
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layout: page
title: About
headline: What's a Made Mistakes?
subheadline: Behind the Name and Designer
date: 2012-08-23
description: "You've found the about page of <NAME> &ndash; a graphic designer working in Buffalo, New York."
image: michael-rose-goofy.jpg
keywords: 
- Michael Rose
- graphic design
- design
- designer
- Buffalo
- print
- catalog design
- web design
- made mistakes
- mmistakes
---
<article class="content-wide clearfix">
	<h2>What Is This All About?</h2>
	<p>So why the title &ldquo;made mistakes?&rdquo; It vaguely has something to do with that whole happy accident thing, where a mistake can turn out to be something great and unplanned. But to be honest I was just looking for a short memorable sounding domain name.</p>
	<p>In May of 2004 I purchased mademistakes.com, and threw up a Macromedia Flash splash (hey remember those?) while I worked on building a design portfolio using Movable Type. For the next couple of years I would experiment with various content management systems (<a href="http://www.movabletype.org/">Movable Type</a> &rarr; <a href="http://textpattern.com/">Textpattern</a> &rarr; <a href="http://wordpress.org/">Wordpress</a> &rarr; <a href="http://www.indexhibit.org/">Indexhibit</a>), developing minimalistic themes and learning what I could about <abbr>HTML</abbr>, <abbr>CSS</abbr>, Javascript, and <abbr>PHP</abbr>.</p>
	<p>I&rsquo;ve since decided to go <abbr title="Content Management System">CMS</abbr>-free and manage everything using static text files that are converted into what you see here with the help of <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a>. Hand coding every page myself should give me greater control over each page&rsquo;s presentation and keep my HTML/CSS skills sharp in the process. Not being limited by a CMS is a wonderful thing&hellip;</p>
  <h2>And Who Are You Again?</h2>
	<p>Oh hey. I’m <NAME>, just another boring, tattooed, time traveling, graphic designer working in Buffalo, New York. I'm into blind contour sketching on an iPad using <a href="http://www.fiftythree.com/paper" target="_blank">Paper by 53</a>, movie theater popcorn, <a href="http://www.duffswings.com" title="Duff's Famous Wings" target="_blank">chicken wings done right</a>, dust collecting record collections, and over using ellipses and en-dashes.</p>
	<p>Oh, and I'm a recent father of twin girls and will someday help redesign <a href="http://2littlerosebuds.wordpress.com" title="2 Little Rosebuds" target="_blank">my wife&rsquo;s blog</a>&hellip;</p>
  <h2><a name="copyright" id="copyright"></a>Copyright and Licensing</h2>
	<p>Unless otherwise noted, all content on this site is &copy; Made Mistakes, <NAME>, or the content&rsquo;s original creator.</p>
	<p>Also unless otherwise noted, all content on this site is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>. That means you are free to share all content, as long as (a) you are not using it for commercial purposes and (b) you attribute it to  Made Mistakes and/or  <NAME>, preferably with a link back to the original content.</p>
<p>If you would like to use something for any other use, feel free to get in touch.</p>
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  <h2>Connect with Me</h2>
	<ul class="icons unstyled">
        <li><i class="icon-twitter-sign"></i> <a href="http://twitter.com/mmistakes" title="Michael Rose on Twitter">Twitter</a></li>
        <li><i class="icon-facebook-sign"></i> <a href="http://facebook.com/michaelrose" title="<NAME> on Facebook">Facebook</a></li>
        <li><i class="icon-linkedin-sign"></i> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelrose" title="<NAME> on LinkedIn">LinkedIn</a></li>
        <li><i class="icon-google-plus-sign"></i> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/118238196859537351707/about?rel=author" title="<NAME> on Google+">Google+</a></li>
        <li><i class="icon-rss"></i> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MadeMistakes" title="Made Mistakes RSS Feed">RSS</a></li>
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