Category: Design
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iLife ‘05
2005 starts off with something nice or I buy Apple Products. It just makes me feel special. I have a laptop that burns CDs and I own Photoshop through way of work. In the scheme of things, I’m pretty dang lucky. So yeah, all the hardware stuff Apple launched yesterday is nice. I respect the…
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The year we lightened up
Yeah, like that Dan pointed out a link to this fansite for the sadly defunct Pacific Southwest Airlines today, and I was fascinated. I want to live in that era. No, scratch that. I want this era to LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP. I’m beat with government and faith based agencies trying to determine what is…
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Details
Scrutiny Tonight, the little flourishes that make making websites fun. I love zooming in to pixel level to tinker. Oh, and I only make icons from scratch when I have to—other times, I rely on goodness like the pictogram font called Poppi from Emigre. These icons likey won’t be needed until phase 2 (a handy…
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woxy.com t-shirt
Matching undies sold separately The t-shirts I’ve been working on at the independent streaming music station arrived late yesterday afternoon. Support anti-corporate radio, buy a shirt (or at least take a gander at the colors). Sizes are generous, though I would not suggest the small (as shown above). Even if you don’t buy a shirt…
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021C
Orange you glad I didn’t say banana? A recent comment reminded me of this vehicle, and I just thought I’d document the passing notion. The 021C was a Ford concept car (named after the Pantone color) for the 1999 Tokyo Motor Show, designed by Marc Newson. It’s lines are deceptively simple, with weird features like…
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I don’t do print
Truck around the neighborhood I used to say, I don’t do print. Just pixels. Websites. Interfaces. I’m not sure when my attitude changed, but the allure of tactile increases, just a little, as I get on. Maybe it’s because everything I worked on years ago, is no more. Cached somewhere in some internet archive, but…
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Colors
Leaves I dig powerful reds and oranges. Ochres and browns. Greens from asparagus to fern. I don’t have any particular favorite color, but it is generally nature’s palette and range that I find myself attracted. This could very well sum up my aversion to 80’s fashion. Maybe that’s why I like Panera so much, or…
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IKEA
Iowa style at Kansas prices What I like about IKEA: – Furnish a room for cheap. – Simple lines and clean shapes for the most part. – Reasonable vittles. – Great visual language with their signage. What I don’t like about IKEA: – Furniture with cheapness akin to Old Navy. Some items great for the…
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Gum and wonder
Juicy Fruit and Wrigley’s Spearmint gums are more than 100 years old Not all new-fangled design bothers me. Case in point: the (relatively) new Wrigley’s wrappers aren’t all that bad. Well, the Juicy Fruit is a little akin to the bubble letters drawn by kids in pen on the back of their Trapper Keepers, but…
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Old Dog, New Tricks
Warning: Geek talk ahead. THE GOAL: A few weeks ago, I decided I wanted to learn the other way of web design: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). It’s not as easy as laying out a table in a visual editor and requires some basic math. Additionally, there are a slew of browser incompatibilities as standards are…