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Photos from 吃香喝辣 (chi xiang he la) located in Newark, CA.

The english name is Newark Cafe, which means nothing, and you can check out the Yelp page here. Note: The restaurant had remodeled and charged owners, menus, everything, except the name -- thus, the yelp reviews/photos are a little funky.

Day 2 of food and drink in Puerto Rico!

Where: Boquerón, Cabo Rojo

Galloways - This restaurant/bar was recommended to us by some women on the plane as the place-to-go bar in town. However, we found it much better as a restaurant. (It's a solid bar, but the crowd is a little older than college spring breakers.) A small group of us split several dishes. The shrimp mofongo (our first mofongo experience!) was one of our favorites. It's basically mashed fried plantains with a delicious sauce and other ingredients (in this case, shrimp). We also had a clam pasta (with lots of clam!) and whole red snapper in creole sauce. Overall, Galloways is a nice place for a meal, outdoors on their patio over the water.

Street food - Skewers and oysters, as usual, served as our post-lunch dessert.

D Tapas - This poorly-lit restaurant is not a tapas (small plates) bar as we think of them in New York. It was just a regular restaurant with traditional Puerto Rican food. We started off with the inexpensive sangria, which I really liked because it was sweeter than usual. (Disclaimer: I'm not a huge sangria person to begin with.) Despite its lack in richness, you get your bang for your buck, The pitchers are huge (8 cups?) and unlike New York, they put the ice in your cup, not in the pitcher, which means more sangria! The service was really slow, but the food was decent. The pork tacos were solid and the chicken mofongo was delicious! Probably my favorite mofongo of the trip.

Day 1 of food and drinks in Puerto Rico!

Where: Boquerón, Cabo Rojo

Pika Pika - Our first meal of the trip, we stopped at Pika Pika. The food reminded me of standard Mexican food we would find at home in NY -- solid/good, but nothing particularly special.

Street food - Fresh raw oysters were awesome! We stayed at the Parador Boqueron and there were oyster and skewer stands just on street! 12 oysters for $5? Yes, please! Skewers (chicken, pork, shark) were $2.50 each. Further down the street, we came across a stand selling these "famous" cod fish pancakes, basically seasoned batter mixed with cod fish. It's pretty good for the first few bites, but after that it gets really greasy really fast. Definitely really interesting and worth trying!

Seaside - For dinner, our group of 20+ crowded into this small restaurant for seafood/a lot of fried food! They had a wings special so a lot of people ordered wings, as well as calamari. In particular, I liked their fried fish nuggets and a friend and i ordered what I thought was going to be a fillet, but ended being an entire red snapper fried.

DevFest 2014 (by ADI) has already ended, but I just wanted to post the t-shirt design!

Originally, I was planning on just throwing on the DevFest logo and call it a day, but that seemed a little boring to me, so I came up with this fun twist. We opted for the indigo shirt (sorry, no plum!) from Next Level Apparel and they turned out really well! It's always fun seeing people wearing them around campus--I think I see at least one every day!

Tool: Adobe Illustrator

ADI (Application Development Initiative) is hosting their annual Devfest at Columbia!

Here are the initial logo designs and after much discussion, members of the ADI committee decided on the logo shown in the first image. I had a lot of fun designing these logos despite the short time frame. Ultimately we wanted something that could be used in future years as well.

Tools: Illustrator and Photoshop

And what is Devfest?! A week of workshops, hacking, demos, and food (free)! Hackers of all levels are welcome to participate and learn! The week starts with the kick-off Saturday, February 1st, 12-2pm in the Davis Auditorium!

Register for Devfest 2014 now! Stay up to date via the Facebook Event!

Artwork for my dear friends of String Theory's latest video, Applause by Lady Gaga!

Check out their amazing cover here! LIKE them on Facebook!

Selection of graphics created for NexRep website, built by Daron and I!

I really enjoyed creating these! I wanted to go for clean and professional with some fun and playfulness. The clients were very pleased with the results and they really bring the information-heavy pages to life.

A friend of mine asked me to design a logo for a banner for his Google team, Green Parrot Pictures. The team was actually a company that Google purchased in 2011 which was brought on for enhancing the quality of video content and now the group works with mostly YouTube video processing. I started with the idea of combining the parrot with a play button and wanted something clean, mature, and interesting. I ended up with these three versions and my friend ended up choosing the 2nd one!

Designing this logo was a really great experience. It's been a while since I've done a logo--it was nice to be able to have a clear, interesting concept in mind and explore what I could do with it. I really had a lot of fun with this one and I'm really pleased with the results.

Quick 15 minute sketch... based on a random thought I had. I was trying to think of a burger that represents me, but also I would looove to eat! :)

Everyone has their own feelings on greatness and what it means.

I'm working on an infographic about Greatness and how we feel about it and I'm trying to collect more responses! Please fill out this 10 second poll here! 

I'll be posting the results in an infographic here! It's not for class/work or anything like that--I'm just one designer who had a passing thought which ended up becoming a larger conversation, which I couldn't find any data on.

Survey link: http://bit.ly/11P8gAu