skills, experience, and quick creative reflexes

A consultant with 20 years of professional design experience, Matt Pusateri builds web sites, interactive media, email designs, and marketing campaigns. He believes in the effectiveness of simple, beautiful, functional, and usable design. Read more to see how Matt can help you with your next project.

design ideas

Why your web pages print badly and how to fix them

Too often, web pages print horribly, or not at all. Here are the four most common web printing problems and how to fix them.

12 Cool Ideas from Event Apart Chicago 2009

Twelve of the most interesting take-aways from the coolest web design conference in 2009

How to Set Up Custom WordPress Category Templates in Four Easy Steps

You want Wordpress to style posts from different categories in different ways, but don’t know how? This tutorial explains how to do it in four simple steps.

8 HTML Email Tips I Wish I’d Known Sooner

Designing HTML Email can be tricky, ugly, and messy. Here are 8 tips for doing it right.

a few recent projects

Website: Campus Progress Redesign

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A redesign to help an an organization revitalize their website to better showcase their journalism, events, and activism

Animation: From Mines to Mobile Phones

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How is your cell phone connected to war and suffering in Congo? This animation breaks it down.

Animation: How Not to Form a Union

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Problems between labor and management are hard to explain. This animation helps.

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ideas on everything else

Six videos to break you out of your bad mood

You can’t watch any or all of these videos and not feel a little bit better about yourself, or for that matter, the fate of the human race.

The Nine Most Disappointing Movies of All Time

Nine movies I wish I could forget

Forty things I’ve learned

A few things I have figured out so far…

72 (and counting) energy drinks reviewed

I’ve tried dozens of energy drinks: the good, the bad, and the undrinkable. In the interest of public service, I rank them for you.

Big in Italy… sort of…

It took a while, but someone from the old country noticed one of my bootlegs.