They call me Ian Jennings Jablonowski. Though I try to take the simple road and go by Ian Jennings as often as possible. I am currently a student at Rutgers University in New Jersey. I am majoring in Information Technology and Informatics in the School of Communication and Information. Currently I make most of my money as part of a two man operation that creates websites for industrial companies based in Indiana. Over the years I’ve worked in a photography studio, and spent a few summers rolling around in my car delivering pizza.
My first website, and now part time job and sandbox is known as 22Pixels.com. 22Pixels was officially registered in 2005, though I had a few working sites under different names before I settled on one. 22Pixels is a collection of Photoshop download from around the internet. It allows people to find normally obscure Photoshop resources all in one place. For now, all the resources are added by me. 22Pixels also has a very helpful and welcoming community forum.
My latest project, is VentStatus.com. Ventstatus works with the program Ventrilo by Flagship. Ventrilo is a VOIP chat program, which allows people to create and join voice chat rooms. VentStatus tracks which users use which chatrooms, so you can find out who is online before joining, what other servers users are interested in, and what kind of games each server plays.
I also created the original Team Fortress 2, or TF2.com website. That is, before Valve acquired it. Though I swear I can see some similarities between my design and theirs.
There was a trick competitive gamers used to use in order to achieve better accuracy in first person shooter games. We would take some tape, a sharpie, and draw a dot in the middle of our monitor. I found this to be a great opportunity for a commercialized product, and now sell individual crosshairs for computer monitors at http://www.supplycrate.com.
I’ve also written a couple pages for Stephen Cawood’s Halo 2 Hacks and almost an entire chapter for his book, The Black Art Of Halo Mods.
When I have spare seconds, I try to get in touch with my creative side. I have a full portfolio of my artwork at deviant art. I love to work with large canvas (spray paint), but am also very interested in vector and pixel based digital design.