Josh Crain's Notes

The Drake Relays is a track and field meet held in Des Moines.

In the winter of 2009, I received an email from someone at Graphis Magazine.

I don’t love this end-of-the-year write-up.

Owl Illustration This summer, I began to wake up with the sunrise.

The truck bumbled over the horse path toward the road.

It's that time of year again.

Prototypes serve a variety of purposes in my work.

Web-safe fonts have been an important part of this site’s design.

In typographic terms, a widow is a very short line of text—usually one word, that concludes a paragraph or column.

Well, here we are at the end of another year.

Almost twenty years ago I packed up my oil paints and easel in a milk crate.

A long time ago in a place far, far away...

Every once in a while I surprise myself with a solution so simple I kick myself for not seeing it sooner.

Slots are one of the best features of web components.

As I look back over the last year I am surprised.

As 2022 draws to a close I have taken a few moments to look back over the last year.

This weekend I visited the lonely place.

From the beginning, I did not want to involve analytics on this site.

Until the other day, it had never occurred to me to look at my childhood home on Google Street View.

Over the weekend I was pleased to receive an email from my college professor Roy R.

On July 11th I attended an art show of work by the late Ray Frederick at Marshalltown Community College.

This website began with one goal—to have a website again, a place to share my work.

Each new year is an opportunity to look back over the last year and look forward to the next.

I like a good race.

As of 12/17/2022 the feed provided by Garmin returns 402 Payment Required response.

I am a little dangerous when it comes to regular expressions (or very dangerous depending on how you look at it).

I stepped outside into the crisp December morning.

For me, everything connects back to running.

A while back I wrote about the steps I had taken to become a front-end master.

I. buoyed mounds of mist drift under the silent dome slowly asunder II. night answers her kin with a stillness bathed in blue abiding till dawn III. gilded bough and blade point west to the autumn blaze higher now the rays IV. a flit and flicker hops thro…

My dad began work on a family history at a time when the only way to do so by letter correspondence.

When I began work on this site more than a year ago my goal was to build something other than a web designer’s personal website.

Recently, I encountered an article last November from Chris Coyer which was very helpful.

A year ago for Valentine’s Day I made a couple bears in love.

Back in 2006, I stumbled upon a website called Life In Vector.

Forsaken places.

Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona.

The Camp Fire was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history.

That was the night I planned to run six but instead ended up on a gravel road in the middle of a twelve-mile loop.