After completing the bulk of the work on Minimentals, I did what most people did then to find work… I went on Craigslist.
The first and only post I responded to was for a freelance position as a Flash developer with the graphic designer Albertico Acosta, who got back to me almost immediately. After a mostly normal interview in his beautiful Dumbo loft office overlooking the Manhattan Bridge, his last question for me was, “do you mind if I smoke weed in the office?” I told him I didn’t mind at all, and I was hired on the spot.
For the next two years, I was mostly tasked with adapting stock Flash templates that Albertico would buy online and customizing them with bespoke logos that he designed and quick and easy adjustments to the layout that I would negotiate with him based on estimates of time and difficulty. Together we pumped out a lot of sites in a short period of time with this workflow.
For higher paying clients, we would do much more custom work, and The Washington condo development was one of those projects.
