I don’t hide the fact that Adobe Illustrator and I aren’t necessarily friends. I’ve never been one to have the ability to draw much. And for being a related field, I feel like I should be better at logo design, but it just isn’t my forte.
Which is probably why videos like the following capture my attention so much. It’s 6 minutes long so you might just want to jump through some of it as it goes. It really gets interesting to watch once the logo creation gets started. And jump through to Mattson’s site to see the other renditions and final results.
If this clock is in production by Christmas, you can add it to my list. Minimal, functional, beautiful.
Battery operated, individual pieces, set time by touching each number and auto-adjustment to light to determine white or black numbers. More design like this, please.
I need to find a laser printer somewhere so I can download and print all six parts of this free, open-source toolkit “created to assist those organizations providing services for communities in need.” Created by IDEO and the Gates Foundation among others.
At a glance it looks to be a road-map in how to setup and/or assist organizations who aim to benefit those in less fortunate countries.
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 teampages to boot.
Not that I’m surprised, their stuff is always spot on. Also, if someone’s looking for a nice Labor Day gift for me and hasn’t found just the right thing yet; I’d take some plane/event tickets for their Future of Web Design (FOWD) Conference.
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 IE6-ers: Sorry it has taken me almost a week to get you in the realm of a decent experience. Piggybacking off the always-handy jQuery I was already using, I fixed some of the transparent PNG issues you would have seen and then replaced some of them with standard JPG’s so that the level of visual funkiness isn’t quite as bad as before.
I do it cause I love you, because I assume that you are trapped by some corporate structure that doesn’t allow an upgrade, and because its my job to not leave you behind. Even though on occasion I want to badly.
For everyone: I have finally put together a decent collection of things I have created over the last couple of years. To be honest, I’ve done somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 sites in the last four years so this really only scratches the surface but it should give you an idea of what I produce.
There are plenty of works I’ve produced out there that I’ve done merely for the cash thus vowing to never tie my name to them in any way. Like most in my field, I have dealt with the occasional client’s wife as the design driver and even had to mix in some pink polka dots here and there. Needless to say, those projects probably won’t be showing up here.
I’ll do my best to update the portfolio a little more regularly but I make no promises.
