Artistic Imposter Design started out as SpaceCom Central, a Web site I designed and built around 1996. SpaceCom Central was originally just my personal Web site, a repository for all things me. Designed in Microsoft Paint and hosted on Geocities free Web site services, it served as an online place where I stored all of my papers and poems that I was writing. At one point, it contained over a hundred poems I had written! This site was allowed to go down in 1999, and no versions of it are saved anywhere.

Around 2002, SpaceCom Central was revived, this time hosted with Yahoo!’s free services. This version still exists at http://www.spacecomcentral.com/vault/spacecom_central/html/main.html. This new version of SpaceCom Central was also meant to be just a repository of papers and stories which I was writing. I updated it occasionally over the years with new papers and stories, but that’s all it really was meant to be.

In late 2005, I decided I wanted to study graphic design in college, and consequently decided I needed an online portfolio. I bought a small business account with Yahoo! and upgraded SpaceCom Central to its own domain. I then added a sub-site, which I called The Showcase since it was meant to be a showcase of all my work, which at the time was pitifully little. This sub site still exists also at http://www.spacecomcentral.com/vault/showcase/. The Showcase was built using Dreamweaver, Flash, and Photoshop, and at the time I really had no idea how to put together a design for a proper Web site. I pulled out all the stops to throw in neat little tidbits of design everywhere, which unfortunately didn’t do much for the cohesion of the site’s look and feel. I actually got a job using The Showcase, although in hindsight I don’t think I would have hired myself had I been the one conducting the interviews. They must have seen some potential in me that didn’t come across on my site.

In 2007, after learning a lot more about design concepts and harmony, I revamped SpaceCom Central into a portfolio site. With a redesigned logo and examples of work I created for classes, my first real portfolio site was born. This version still exists at http://www.spacecomcentral.com.

Later in 2007, I revamped my portfolio site, buying the domain artisticimposter.com. I changed the design a couple of times over the next year or so, and finally arrived at the current version of Artistic Imposter Design.