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What Were You Working On?

by Trent Walton | July 12, 2010 | 400 × 300 | 2,106 views

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47 responses

  1. Desk Trent Walton

    I was cleaning up my compy & migrating stuff to Dropbox when I came across this. It's over 6 years old, and was part of a flash site I cooked up really early on.

    I thought it'd be fun to invite you all to rebound this with the oldest piece of design you can find on your computers... GO!

    about 1 month ago

  2. 80x80_icon Brad Colbow

    This is going to be awesome.

    about 1 month ago

  3. Matt-everson-b Matt Everson

    This was a blogging experiment I had back in the day... trying to turn $14 into $1000. A total failure in that respect, but it did get me hooked on conjuring up web projects.

    about 1 month ago

  4. Picture_541 Aaron Scamihorn

    Started this for a class project in digital Illustration back in 2004. Great Idea for a thread!

    about 1 month ago

  5. Photo_41 Dave Rupert

    "... and Aaron Scamihorn takes a commanding lead!"
    [/play-by-play commentary]

    about 1 month ago

  6. Profile Yaron Schoen

    This was one of my first live websites back in 2000. Jeez 10 years ago!!! I did the whole thing, Photoshop Flash and HTML. I have no idea why, but it is still live. You can go view it in all it's table glory.

    My god Trent, what have you done to me! How embarrassing

    about 1 month ago

  7. Hi David Vosburg

    I went through a collage phase in college that might suggest I was on something... Thanks for this awesome idea of digging up old crap!

    about 1 month ago

  8. Me-web Corinne Ducusin

    I was still quite a web design noob back in high school. This is a "design" of my personal site. I didn't know that it wasn't good practice to use a splash page AND set the window to a specific size. Also, is it too pink? LOL

    about 1 month ago

  9. Avatar Chad Hietala

    I think this is about 5-6 years old. I used to do these realistic collages all the time while I was in college studying...finance =\. LOL.

    about 1 month ago

  10. Jarad_johnson Jarad Johnson

    Great idea Trent. This isn't my earliest work, but it is the earliest work I can find on this computer. I suppose I was way too into textures at the time.

    about 1 month ago

  11. Matt-everson-b Matt Everson

    Oh, and here's the artwork I started my business with in 2005. I couldn't think of a company name, so I went with the "Howard Roark, Architect" approach.

    about 1 month ago

  12. Me_small Kyle Sollenberger

    about 1 month ago

  13. Pirate_bigger Erik Sagen

    Oh. Boy. This thing is just about 12 years old now.

    about 1 month ago

  14. Desk Trent Walton

    I'm loving these... @Erik Sagen: Is that Trogdor? :)

    about 1 month ago

  15. Img_0459 Nate Kadlac

    One of my very first web sites. Thought using a pay phone on my contact page would be ironic. About as good of an idea as calling myself In Front Designs.

    about 1 month ago

  16. Dsc_7627e23 Andrew Austin

    The first, oldest thing I could find on my computer was for my wedding. Couldn't find the .psd or .pages (yup, mostly made in iWork) . . . so I photo will have to do . . .

    about 1 month ago

  17. Ray02 Reagan Ray

    I did this my junior year of high school in 1996. It was done using prisma colored pencils on (I think) bristol board.

    I have no idea where the original is. This is a a scan of the original slide my art teacher made for my portfolio.

    about 1 month ago

  18. Avatar Tim Print

    This was a joint project from my last year of technical illustration at college, 1990. (I did the engine and fuselage, my friend did the wings and tail). Drawn in pencil using elipse guides and a perspective grid. Then traced in ink with good old rotring pens on clear film. Wonder if anyone is still doing that now, it seems like a lifetime ago?

    about 1 month ago

  19. Avatar Joshua Lane

    about 1 month ago

  20. 80x80_icon Brad Colbow

    This was my first comic ever published (for the school newspaper). The OJ Simpson portrait should give you a pretty good idea of when this gem was drawn.

    about 1 month ago

  21. Pirate_bigger Erik Sagen

    This will be my last contribution to the old skool design thread started by Trent. This piece was inked, scanned and colored in 1997.

    This dude was a time cop just strolling down the street (note the swank insignia on his shoulder) - I never did finish the building for some reason.

    I later transferred it to clay and meticulously carved this scene into the slab (took me about 2.5 weeks), fired it up and now it sits in the basement at my inlaws. It weights about 8-10 pounds.

    about 1 month ago

  22. Me500px Alex Patrascu

    Oh boy. Now I really have to connect my HDDs from ages ago!

    about 1 month ago

  23. 80x80_icon Brad Colbow

    I was a little inspired by 2advanced studios back in 2003. Why I thought this treatment would be appropriate for their clutches I have no idea.

    about 1 month ago

  24. Samfarmer Sam Wilson

    @Brad ah that takes me back

    about 1 month ago

  25. Avatar Doug Neiner

    Wow, to participate on this I will need to look on my WINDOWS computer... ya, I mean I have to go the whole way back before I was a convert to the Cult of Mac :)

    about 1 month ago

  26. Avatar Allison House

    Here's what I dug up: an illustration I inked around the age of 15 of 2D from Gorillaz. There's a little Jamie Hewlett in just about everything I made as a teenager. (Except the websites. Those were mostly Cameron, haha.)

    about 1 month ago

  27. Avatar-lincoln-80 Jared Christensen

    This is what I was working on in 1999: a full-Flash, totally original, cutting edge, cinematic EXPERIENCE of a website for this visionary web design agency I worked for... that no longer exists. Check the circuitry, son. THE MATRIX HAS YOU.

    And yes, the UI was so avant-garde and daringly experimental that it needed instructions so all you morons could "use" it. You're welcome.

    about 1 month ago

  28. Design-informer-icon Jad Limcaco

    This was my first logo. I used to brand myself as JL Graphics. Don't you just love that bevel/reflection?

    about 1 month ago

  29. Me500px Alex Patrascu

    The year was 2003, but I was already in the business for 5 years.

    I'll try to find some much older work on some other HDDs!

    about 1 month ago

  30. Dribbble Jesse Gardner

    This is the oldest piece of original artwork on my hard drive: July 17, 1996 — almost 14 years old!

    This was my very first website: the entire thing was image map.

    I created the initial rendering (bg, planets and asteroids) in TruSpace. The lens flare was carefully crafted in Photoshop 2.5LE.

    (Bonus points for naming each of the Photoshop filters used.)

    about 1 month ago

  31. Picture_37 Ismael Burciaga

    This was my very first design project for my Dad's church that took me 6 hours in Photoshop on a PC. I had never touched Photoshop before and just as I was about to save, the PC crashed on me and I had to redo it. The second time it only took me 4 hours LOL

    This now prob would take me 2 minutes :)

    about 1 month ago

  32. Ryan-rushing Ryan Rushing

    A radio station in Baton Rouge put on an event called "A Taste of Tiger Tailgating," and they wanted a web graphic to go along with it.

    I did this in 2007, at the end of my first year in the communication design program in college.

    Hovering tiger head will get you.

    about 1 month ago

  33. 30029_521477908867_193601392_30785040_6023493_n Bryan Howell

    also idea! i can't wait to get home to do some searching...i think i have some ideas of the horrors i'll be uploading. haha.

    thanks!

    about 1 month ago

  34. P4030002_bw Christopher Meeks

    This thread is amazingly therapeutic. I'm not holding out, I just don't have anything old on my computer right now. Like others, I'd have to dig out my old PC.

    I may just have to do that...

    about 1 month ago

  35. Squaredeye_336x336 Matthew Smith

    I was doing this when my son Brighton was in his momma's belly. It was fun work, but I had no idea what I was doing and I was doing it all for free.

    about 1 month ago

  36. Xentek-768x768 Eric Marden

    You asked for the oldest design on my machine. This monstrosity will probably get me kicked off of dribbble, but this 'collage' was created on some corporate computer using MS Paint when I should have been working on something else. I think the year was '96 or '98. I'll turn in my internet license now… :)

    about 1 month ago

  37. Dribbble Jesse Gardner

    I lied.

    I believe that this is not only the oldest piece of original artwork on my computer, but the oldest piece of original digital artwork I have saved: October 23, 1995.

    This was also my very first attempt at creating a logo in Photoshop... I was fascinated by "color dodge", even back then.

    The only other digital artwork I created that was older than this was a cross-section of a tap root I did for a research paper using Logitech Paint Show Plus on a monochrome monitor with a Hercules graphics adapter. (Feeling mighty old now!)

    about 1 month ago

  38. Avatarrbrurrr Tommy Vad Flaaten

    We were 8 years old and were "designing" a website with our dad. That was quite some times!

    about 1 month ago

  39. Profile-blue Matthew Spiel

    This is the beginning of it all - ca. 2005. Worked this guy up with a hacked copy of PS, on my dell laptop in my dorm room. I put my heart and soul in to this poster. I prolly also put too much texture in it as well...

    about 1 month ago

  40. Avatar-large2 Dave Shea

    From September 1995, this is probably the oldest completely digital graphic of any sort I still have kicking around in some form. I built a really lame RPG and clearly put more effort into the art, since it was both boring and buggy.

    Bonus type cred: while the chunky font on the bottom was DOS system text, the thinner type above was a hand-drawn pixel font.

    about 1 month ago

  41. New_me Simon Foster

    Trent what have you started? This one's got legs I think :)

    about 1 month ago

  42. Kropp_mug_100x100 Justin Kropp

    This was quite some time ago and was an initial attempt at using a fluid-layout.

    about 1 month ago

  43. Jeffbatterton-headshot-square Jeff Batterton

    ...I was designing my first website. As well as using Photoshop 6 for the first time. Wow.

    about 1 month ago

  44. Facebook-simon-600px Dave Simon

    This was created in 1994 shortly after I got my hands on the layers feature in PS 3.0. Somewhere, I have the original PSD, but I was only able to find this small version from an old site backup on my Dreamhost.

    about 1 month ago

  45. Dani-2010-bw Dani Nordin

    Pretty much my very first website ever, back in 2001. This monstrosity is still live, on Tripod, and I can't get rid of it because I have no idea what my account was under and the e-mail address no longer exists.

    about 1 month ago

  46. Avatar-dribbble Dustin Wilson

    I thought I'd add in what the oldest thing I have on my computer is. This is from an old RPG game I was working on around 2000 or so. It was using the Sphere RPG engine. This was from a test demo, and everything fell apart quickly after that. I wasn't really worth a crap with programming back then, and I never could find anyone to work with me on it so I could focus on graphics.

    I could very easily do both today, but considering I'm not a teenager with endless time on my hands it'd be hard. I've always wanted to make my own RPG. Too bad it's not to be.

    about 1 month ago

  47. 417px_kevin_sharon Kevin Sharon

    The oldest work i could find on my computer is backup copy of the first site i did using html/css. this was done around the time designing with web standards and more eric meyer on css came out. the photo treatment was inspired by Cameron Moll's that wicked worn look post. The repeating background graphic was straight up ripped off from Cameron's site.

    about 1 month ago