I am proud to announce the new Jake Bilbrey.com. It was created to fit a more professional tone and to show off all of my hard work. With the redesign I have launched a new blog geared towards commentary on certain design aspects and what tools and resources I am finding useful.
The Design of Theatronica
Hey check out this new wallpaper I made for my new hit podcast Probably Fine! I hope you will check out the podcast when episode one comes out.
If something’s not right after 30 minutes, start over and try again.
Three years ago I made one of my favorite website designs ever. It played heavily on the number three, it was made in an hour, and it looked amazing.
Last week I pulled out my Moleskine and designed an idea for a new site that looks identical to what you see above. The webpage loads extremely fast because there is no images on the page. The great part about that is the website will look good at any level of dpi, like the iPhone’s retina display. I am very proud of this redesign.
Of relation to the theatre.
A new project from ZicklePop Productions.
Tellgram is the place for people who make cool stuff to show off.
I am very proud of this site that I made. I hope you like it, I know I do. I started making this last August. I would like to say a super-thank you to Matthew Price of Ember Code and my college teacher Jeremy Ey for their help and putting up with me.
Tellgram launches in a beta. The beta limits who can post, but not who can sign in and give stars to people. I will be notifying the people who applied for the beta this Sunday night / Monday morning when Tellgram launches.
Keep up with Tellgram on Twitter, see the popular wires on @TellgramPop, contact support on @TellgramHelp, like Tellgram on Facebook, and you can e-mail Tellgram at hello@tellgram.com.


See these two Facebook icons? Sure you have. They are everywhere. You see them in ads on TV, billboards, websites, and magazines. The top one is a paid icon from Fast Icon and the second is a free, for personal use only, icon from Chris Ivarson. Neither are made by Facebook. Since Facebook does not provide a hip iPhone-looking square icon companies have resorted to paying or stealing icons.
See every time the show starts, right after the opening sequence, the Lost logo comes into focus and zooms past the camera. Freezeframe! There, a glitch in the 3D shape. The face of the logo doesn’t connect properly to the sides.
If you, like me, know just a tiny smudgeon about 3D modelling, this glitch is a symptom of an utterly crap 3D modeller. It bugs the hell out of me. What about you? Are you just sitting there, taking it?
The Lost Pixels (Noscope)
At first I thought this was the Netflix streaming, then I realized it was on the Blu•rays. Now my arms, legs, and back have gigantic rage boils.
So today I turn 21 and I’m catching up on Tumblr. There’s a meme of desktop screenshots going on and I find my icon I designed when I was 16! It’s from my one and only icon set Kaupoa. (They’re hard to make!) My mind is blown that someone I really admire on Twitter and Tumblr uses my icon.
She obviously has good taste. Follow her, she’s hilarious, @GirlDetective.