About GFXmonkey

GFXmonkey is my online moniker for the past 30 years. It started as a joke when I was working at Netscape in the mid 90s. The idea was that I was a "Graphics Monkey" who could keep slamming out the web work. Monkey was a tongue-in-cheek pejorative, referring to how crazy busy the first Internet boom was in Silicon Valley. In 80s & 90s computer parlance, GFX was short for "Graphics," and often used in the Demoscene, a subculture I was really into at the time.

Over the years it got refined into the version of the logo you see today. The tagline I added read, "Navigating the Jungle of Design," a hint to the browser wars of the late 90s, early 2000s, where Netscape "navigated" the Web (we capitalized it back then), while Internet Explorer "explored" it.

Read more about me and see more of my design work at my other site, DanielWeimann.com.