Archives for “design”
“Design for yourself fast. You shouldn’t need to think about what you want, you are what you want. It just comes out of you, and it will be good. But sometimes, you have this feeling that you have to think about it like you would for some detached client project where they sell gutters; your [...]
I finally finished my Max OSX style skin! Head over to the options page and select “Aqua” from the drop down menu. There’s only one catch. It won’t work right under Internet Explorer on a PC. Microsoft has this stupid bug involving transparent .png files, so it’ll look really weird on there. However, if you’re [...]
Yesterday I submitted my entry to the Viridian “Dead Enron Logo” contest. The basic idea was that Enron should have a new logo to reflect its new status as a dead company. I had seen on the news shots of people leaving the corporate headquarters, walking past a big metal version of their logo. I [...]
I posted a new skin here called Rustbucket. You can find it on the options page. I’m pretty fond of it, so I set it as the new default skin. And while I’m talking about the site, let me take a moment to ask you all what you think of Rusted. What do you like [...]
“My life is all of a sudden difficult because fojar’s down…” – Annie Yes, it’s been an exciting week for Fojar. First, the virus crashes the router, cutting the connection, then Steve finds out that Fojar was hacked, necessitating a reinstall, and then he finds out that the ongoing downtime is the result of USWest [...]
Continuing her tradition of kick-ass gifts, KT gave me a fondue set for my birthday. While she was in town this weekend, we decided to get together with Steve and Miles and have a fondue night. After we looked up how to make fondue on the web, we got the ingredients and managed to make [...]
Ah, it’s good to be back in Portland. It’ll be better once I have a job and an apartment, but it’s still good right now. Things with living at home again are going smoother than I expected. Both my parents and I are falling over each other trying not to step on each other’s toes. [...]
Behold the sweet new design! It’s rusty! It’s gritty! You’ll need a tetanus shot! And yet, despite the rusty appearance, this is actually a very clean and functional design! But enough of me singing my own praises. What do you think?
Uhh… almost done with the Basic Rights Oregon site… It’s funny. Web design is a completely different mindset from programming. I guess that’s obvious, but it didn’t really occur to me. When you program, you focus monomanaically on this set of variables, procedures, and tasks that need to get done. It’s almost like juggling, only [...]
Check out the poster I made for the radio station’s Halloween broadcast of War of the Worlds! I’m pretty pleased with the way it turned out, even though the propaganda look I like so much doesn’t translate super-well to black and white. Still, the productions manager assures me that making it black and white means [...]
I got my portfolio all updated today. The itch to redesign all my personal sites has been hitting me again lately. I found a good design online and pretty much stole it wholesale for my portfolio site. I would feel bad about it on any other site, but since all the content on that site [...]
I almost wrote 11.9, but I guess since it’s 1am, it’s technically tomorrow. Strange concept. For me, it never really becomes tomorrow until I go to bed and wake up again. Makes things kinda screwy when I pull all-nighters. The whole next day, it feels like yesterday. I have had the greatest couple of days! [...]
Hmm. Well… I could write about all the stuff that has happened lately, but that seems like a lot to do, so instead I’m going to tell you about this kickass website Ryan sent me. It’s at www.andrethegiant.com, or if you prefer, www.obeygiant.com. They both go to the same place. This website, apart from hosting [...]
Sorry it’s been awhile since I wrote, things have gotten pretty hectic around here. I’ll try to give you a nice complete picture of my life right now. Where should I start… how about Annie… Things with Annie are fantastic. I’m so completely in love with her that it feels kinda strange. I guess I [...]
