I am extremely impressed with the new Carsonified.com that Ryan and team just launched in the last week or so. Super clean, without bloat, illustrative without looking cartoon-y, and some fantastic team pages to boot. Not that I’m surprised, their stuff is always spot on. Also, if someone’s looking for a nice Labor Day gift…
Due to the fact that its Sunday night and I didn’t want to sit still, and the fact that as I peruse my stats on the back-end I see that exactly 18.1% of you are still using IE6 (shame on you, by the way); I went ahead and made some adjustments this evening. For my…
As always, a day or two late is the norm. For those of you using a feed reader, you might want to at least click on through to see the newest version of my site. It’s late and I don’t feel like detailing a bunch of things but here just a couple of highlights: Almost…
If you happened to stop by anytime this evening you might have gotten a sneak peek of v3.0 of my new site. It’s close, just not quite ready. A few nuts and bolts still need to be tightened and a few leaks need to be plugged, but it’s close. Fingers crossed it’ll go live before…
On a scale from 1 to 10 on how excited I am to see what becomes of the soon-to-be released Typekit, I fall somewhere between 2,745 and infinity. Typekit, in their own words (emphasis mine): As a Typekit user, you‚Äôll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to…
We own (possibly a pirated version of) The Incredibles and I’m not ashamed to admit that I like it. The movie, not the possibility that it’s a copied version. I enjoy the movie for what it is, a well-scripted and dialogued animation from Disney Pixar. Part of the reason I think I enjoy it over…
I’m not exactly sure where to start. I’ve been sitting on this for 10 days now and the words haven’t fully developed. I’m hoping the new (free) live Coldplay album will help them start to flow. I fully realize I run the risk of this coming off cheesy, but there are certain instances in life…
A great three minutes of behind the scenes design work of Mike Kus as he prepares his slides for a presentation he gave at FOWD London 2009.
This week’s Layer Tennis may be the best I have ever watched. Check out all 10 volley’s from Chris Glass & Aaron James Draplin: http://www.layertennis.com/090501/index.php There’s lots to love about this match: Aaron’s misspelling of the logo, Chris’ videos and sneak peek behind his process, the first I’ve ever seen players come together for a…
According to a 2002 study, the ‚Äúappeal of the overall visual design of a site, including layout, typography, font size, and color schemes,‚Äù is the number one factor we use to evaluate a website‚Äôs credibility. – In Defense of Eye Candy by Stephen P. Anderson (A List Apart) Most people I deal with fall into…
I grew up in the printing industry. I saw that it could be done to make a living but it wasn’t putting anyone on the fast track to prosperity. I am sure I even mentioned a time or two that I had a plan of getting out of it sooner rather than later. Hand-bindery work…
I’m pretty much the best at HTML but this page is still under construction. Yep, that pretty much sums up his talent: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbsite/ Related, but entirely in jest and beautifully crafted to swim upstream among all of the designer portfolios out there today: http://noahstokes.com/ If you really want to see what he can do…
Interesting to see how Disney may have found a formula to success and how it blatantly repeats itself in different movies. Audio has nothing to do with the video so you can hit the mute button if you prefer. (via Dark Roasted Blend)
I’ve mentioned this same statement more than once to those in a position to make some changes at our church. Maybe hearing it from other sources will help the message get through. a successful Internet ministry does not rely exclusively on volunteers to create or maintain their web site. (via Church Marketing Sucks)
For those web related or for those who just enjoy browsing random statistical findings, the 2008 results of The Survey For People Who Make Websites has been published: http://aneventapart.com/alasurvey2008/00.html Now do me a favor and tally up the stuff I want to read into a nice little package so I don’t have to scour the…
With all the craze of live-blogging and twittering different events these days, it’s a little refreshing to see somebody doing it the old fashioned way. This guy possesses a skill that I would trade a finger from my left-hand for, the ability to make magic with a pen and paper. Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/sets/72157615703262704/ Mike’s write-up…
A terrible collaboration is when there is no collaboration. When you work with someone who has no respect for what you do, what you‚Äôve done and your skills. The client from hell, is not that client, cause you fire him. The client from hell is the one that is actually in the collaborative process and…
Not a huge fan of the word ‘barf’ but in this context, it works. http://www.yourlogomakesmebarf.com/ Knowing my own limits and the fact that logos are outside of them, most anything I would create would make this site.