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Posts Tagged with Design
March 27, 2009
Little Red Ridding Hood Re-interpreted
The story of Little Red Riding Hood re-interpreted as an isometric infographic video. (via swissmiss)
February 23, 2009
Milton Glaser on TED
I'm a big fan of the TED talk videos and even more so when it's a video of someone I respect and admire. Here's a recently posted TED talk with Milton Glaser from 1998.
February 18, 2009
Recreating the button
I noticed recently that Gmail switched to using custom buttons for it's mail actions and I thought they were nicely done. As someone who's had to create custom HTML buttons, I can appreciate the amount of work someone can put into getting them to work in most major browsers (I'm looking at you IE6). Here's a detailed post from Douglas Bowman, Google Visual Design Lead, about how the buttons came to be.
Sprite Optimization
Nice write up from David Shea on how the big boys are utilizing CSS Sprites and what some of the pros and cons are. I've used CSS sprites in the past and have found they work great if you plan for them in advance. As mentioned in the article, it's when the images need to be resized or repositioned that you can run into headaches.
ecommr
Recently launched by my friends and colleagues Tom Sullivan and Jon Sykes. ecommr is a collection of e-commerce interface and design elements. I've found this to be a terrific resource for keeping tabs on the current trends in e-commerce store front design.
February 17, 2009
New Site Design
It’s been a while since my last major redesign, so I figured now was as good a time as any to launch this one. I’ve ditched the single column stream of news format for a more traditional approach. With this design I was aiming to get a bit more organized in how I’m presenting content on the site. Two sections in particular that I wanted to break out were my photography and projects I’ve worked on. Each of these now have there own separate sections on the site.
I’m not going to go too much into detail with what’s changed visually or technically. I’ll just invite you to check it out and let me know what you think. I’m still cleaning up a bit of the code and will probably be making tweaks over the coming weeks, but overall I’m pretty happy with this one.
One thing I will mention though is that I’ve completely dropped support for IE6. So the 36 of you out there who are still using it to visit this site will get a completely unstyled experience. It’s time to upgrade people.
August 25, 2008
Design Refresh
Here it is, yet another redesign. Although I think this one will last a while since I’m getting a little burnt out on doing them. I’m going super simple this time. A single column layout with a clean aesthetic design.
I’m going to try and focus and posting more of my own content and less of the video embeds and random links that I’ve been posting lately. Which was a bit of an experiment on my part.
Anyway, here it is. I’ll be making tweaks here and there as I grow into the design and start adding content. Oh, and that photoblog I was all hyped up about a week ago? Yea, that’ll probably be taken down and supplemented with this new design. I’m not liking the feel of my content being spread on several sites so I’m bringing it back under one roof. Well, as of this week I am.
June 6, 2008
Steve Jobs on Paul Rand
“I asked him if he’d come up with a few options. And he said “No, I will solve your problem for you. And you will pay me. And you don’t have to use the solution; if you want options, go talk to other people.””
October 23, 2007
On Yongo
My Media-Hive comrade Mr. Jon Sykes has released his latest child into the world. On Yongo. A place where people can post pictures of their business cards. And not just any old business card (well I guess you could post that to), but business cards that say something. Business cards with personality. Business cards your proud to give to your mom (even though your Mom is proud of you just for having a job that requires a business card).
Rumor has it that this is the first in a string of Sykes ventures. Stay tuned.