Posts Tagged ‘Design’

The future of web typography, thank you google!!!

Monday, July 5th, 2010

As I am sure you are aware, the issue of “web safe” fonts is a web designers nightmare. Dulling down designs due to the lack of cross computer consistency in font libraries greatly limits designers and thus design on the web. To this point the main work around for this has been creating images of type and then using some sort of complex code to allow a browser to still see the contents of that typography-a rather silly practice, when type should not need to be re-written in order to be read (by man or machine..). These techniques I detailed in an older posting which you can read about here: Images to Replace Text. But there is an easier way!!!

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My iPad is Hanging in, the MFA?!?

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Wowzers! That is incredible!! I am pretty sure that I could not do that with oils on canvas, never mind a iPad?!?! As if that is not enough, this only took 3 hours. Nuts, absolutely nuts. I guess that I could use this as another point of justification for getting an iPad, right? The good old “I can use it for work” line…

The Word Doc Goes Live!

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

The Word Doc offers wonderful copy writing services, so should you ever be in need, keep them in the back of your mind. Working closely with Beverly Zibrak over at the Word Doc, we have successfully come up with a new brand, web design and website for the Word Doc organization. This site was built using WordPress as a content management system. For this project I created and implemented a custom theme to cater to the unique needs of the folks over at the Word Doc. Have a look The Word Doc!. Enjoy!

Pumas of the Week

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Alright, so as promised I have a sick pair of Pumas to share. Thanks to those of you who sent me ideas and suggestions. We have a winner! Puma RS 100 Emergency Pack, turning heads everywhere (love the lightning bolt detail).

Julian Beever, an Artist and Preformer

Friday, June 11th, 2010

A buddy of mine sent me a link to one of those blogs with “amazing” pictures, which is where I discovered this incredible Julian Beever. Julian is a phenomenal artist! His murals and paintings show that he has skill, but his truly breathtaking pieces are are rendered as sidewalk art. Clearly his illustrations are a show worthy of viewing as Julian interacts with his creations as he creates them thus telling a story in the process. Julian does an amazing job playing with perspective to create some dizzying works of art and most of his masterpieces have a delightful sense of humor to them. As an artist myself, I am very impressed with sidewalk artists in that they no attachment to their works of art. They are really creating art just for but a moment of beauty. Julian Beever is really a fantastic artist and you should check out more of his works here!