Design news | Mar 03
An excellent recap of what list netiquette is. Avoiding personal conflict on mailing lists by Madhu Menon.
“...I have often seen vicious arguments break out on some of them. Somebody posts something, then someone else not only refutes that but also calls the original poster a moron for not knowing better. Pretty soon, many flames are exchanged, and the rest of the list subscribers are silent witnesses to a bloody mess.
Nobody likes that.”
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via: Hugh Blair.
Limitations to building product sites? This is a small and efficient example: Belshe Lifeguard Gear
A superb site in terms of interface design and project presentations. Worth visiting from top to bottom: CLAN.DREI
They have got a lot to show in terms of creativity and using their projects to show their expertise. Check saturate quorporation.
The inside look at Shift magazine publishes its last issue. Staff at tech culture mag are shocked by Mary Gordon
“From a business perspective, it's always had a problem because it's never really found a reader base... the spirit of the independent magazine may not have found a supportive home...”
The liner effect on afterchaos + a new essay: Using pixel fonts??? by Rita Parada.
The sad thing about rip_offs is that they take thousands of hours of work and switfly turn the work of others in favour of their own gratification with little imagination nor moral sense.
Strong + ambitious statements from strangeways marketing.
Going somewhere? You have arrived @ Moseley Webb recently updated site! Good integration and use of visuals for their multi_expertise and services.
Guess who is a new board member at Apple?
Add up masterful talent + professionalism + generosity + humor and you get? Zave Smith, a photographer that is comfortable around big and small people. Get an inside look and learn from his dealing with assignments summarized best in his own words: he has had them all! A must read about how to be better creatives.
New design partners is an online directory of UK design consultancies brought to you buy Design Week magazine. Check it out!
Here is the list of sites who have a N o / W a r statement.
Pixeltable is now playing beta 1.5: our new studio uses a table_less interface + css + standards compliant code. The site is on the road to prove that validating does not mean visually boring!
Though this is definitely a shameless plug, in an effort to share what we have learned and wanting to push the boundaries and learn even more - we wish to undertake the redesign of a small non-profit organization site - - preferably related to kidz needs! If you would like to suggest one please make sure to send it over.
We would like to assemble a small team of already proficient avid standards compliancy fans to collaborate on this. Please contact JF and let him know about the Tableless.org project.
Using the very nature architecture constraints and how small pieces must come together to become a whole morphosis display an explorative environment on their site.
Blitz Digital Studios have immediate openings and are hiring flash mx, and action scripters.
Meet our new powagirrrl, the flash Goddesswho was finalist at the recent SXSW/interactive awards in the developer's category.
A flash site with a 360 + 3D design: OL3 {microworlds}.
The Internet and film have been passions of Andrew Beach for years, leading to his collaboration on short films with international writers and developing new ways to converge video and the computer. He spearheads Last Exit LLC. Read his close-ups* interview.
Our Design forte award goes to: an agency :::::::::| o n e F a s t B u f f a l o that has built around an unusual name a strong and effective brand. Actually a compelling brand! See how the world wild web was tamed.
This is an agency that has built around an unusual name a strong and effective brand. Actually a compelling brand!
There is not one single place throughout the site that the *buffalo* is not reminded. The palette and the skins refer to the wild west. The pictures are magnificient and their colorization treatment reminds of technicolor in film.
Every single loading sequence has a unique animation... which makes waiting a pleasure.
Every project has its own music and they even provide a list to each tracks on a page. The navigation is thorough and again, uses the brand in a fun and systematic way such as: Herd, Dwell, Hide...
The portfolio flash montage gives a quick overview of projects without overdoing it. Their creativity is extraordinary. Smart, fast, dangling a delightful morsel... you just want to see more. Fascinating.
You tour the studio and it's beautiful. You look at some of the team members bios... you see beautiful people.
Definitely, *OneFastBuffalo* are en route to tame the world wild web!
Illustrations whereas the style of Mauricio de Pierro makes the personaes come alive.
An interesting photographic project Private and Public that coursed over a year done by Simon Hoegsberg.
An interesting concept for the NuJazz Chronicles.
On Andrea Branzi, an interview with an architect and designer, professor of industrial design at Politecnico di Milano.
One of my all time fav illustrator Nathan's got a Scary Girl out of his flying pad. Delirious imagination guaranteed - don't miss the *comic* strips.
Wouldn't you wish having the same creative instinct as designblue?
War? What is it good for issue from UrbanCollective! Great work.
Centrino? Pentium M? PC Labs Looks Beyond the Name Game by Konstantinos Karagiannis
Another M$ security flaw for Windows 2000 was found. Read about it.
Excellent 3D rendition site for Animal Logic a company relentless in their pursuit of imaganitve way to show their capacities.
Now guess what they do???
Poetic + pixels + flash = __r o c k e t d e s i g n__
Take a stand for world peace is an essay written after 9/11 which echoes strangely today: Though we are complete strangers - we are FAMILY - we are part of the unbroken chain that is called Humanity.
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Somewhere on Earth last night -> image from Truthout.org.
See Indie Fonts the new type reference book from P22! Don't miss the { Typophile } gallery!
“Independent type designers have devoted their talents to producing fresh new fonts that can give your text a major boost. Indie Fonts provides a showcase collection of almost 2000 diverse fonts from 18 of today's hottest digital type foundries and features the best work of these designers. Indie Fonts will help you find some of the highest quality fonts available today.”
Well*Vetted version 2, edition #7 is live! Welcome 18 new member sites and 17 new guests from all around the world. Now, ach month the list will now serve up 46 links.
Timing-based attacks on RSA keys from OpenSSL Security Advisory [17 March 2003]
More Net Attacks Loom, CERT Says by Dennis Fisher
Minimalist with a twist, Morla Design displays a wide variety of expertise and original work with nice snapshots and good clients' project explanation.
Neon Sight is a e-zine which features current movement of design and art in Japan. It aims to becoming the portal to Japanese design and art culture outside the web.
What is striking in Michael Patrick Partners site is their use of highlighted text to emphasize comments and the overall unified design.
Expanding the Approaches to User Experience by George Olsen
Time Will Tell: What the American work week reveals about our cultural values by Debra Wierenga
Accessify is an excellent resource on accessibility, with news, tutorials, tools and wizards.
Why avoiding tables (for layout) is important by Dave Winer
Adaptative path publications is a must read - join their list to receive excellent articles.
cidow is a well-tamed corporate environment that is truly functional, visually entertaining and where extreme attention to details was deployed.
Since 3 years there has been a constant sweep of bad news but this one affects us most profoundly:
Peer Information is the company behind Friends of Ed, Glasshauss, Wrox, Curlingstone, Active Path and Tect and has taken the resolution to start the insolvency process. So, not only do employees have lost their job on the spot, some were not expecting this at all but all authors who had on-going writing contracts are requested to stop writing but still respect the boundaries of their agreement and those collecting royalties are now creditor of the company.
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via: Hugh Blair
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ndlr: Serial RIP in our community. The voice of independent publishers are going silent: Friends of Ed and Glasshauss are no longer. Last week Shift.ca published its last issue and CreateOnline too.
We need to find a way to reach our potential customers and wave an alive and kicking message; this has been a major concern and preoccupations over the past couple of years.
Dr Pepper/Seven Up cowed by Web plan by John Heinzl
“...The people who make the cash decisions need to know that charging into our arena expecting it all for nothing is a very bad idea, reads a message on the site. If people want to reach us, they need to know that it's going to be on our terms, and that we will not be insulted by offers of cheap freebies.
...He said the campaign is part of a larger trend called roach marketing, in which companies try to disguise their come-ons as spontaneous interactions in a bid to give products credibility...”
A repository of outstanding illustrators who are the Picture Mechanics
Old news with current ethical issues on the corporate crossing of the great divide. Research by Karl Dubost.
Flash: Blogging Goes Corporate by Farhad Manjoo
Don't miss Meg Hourigan comments: "Macromedia employees are doing the writing I find it a little disturbing that this isn't clearer." My point altogether make sure to read on. It's not right to acquire mindshare without full disclosure.
Want to prototype ideas to a built environment? AEI DIGITAL™ generates interesting 3D modelling of what can be over what is applied to archictural projects; some renderings are eally stunning.
On G acquisition of B! First article apparently published on topic: Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time by Dan Gillmor.
A declaration of bloggerdom an initiative by Tristan Louis after a thread was started on Metafilter whereas Anil Dash picks on it and talks about Project Blogger (!?!?) and now, Dr. Pepper (!?!?) attempts blog ca$hing. You can read some thoughts from the man here and the official FAQ.
Discover a very talented photographer; there is poignancy and vivid life in his pictures. The chromatic is beautiful.
Meet David Nicolas!
Macromedia has seen fit to redesign their site using flash 6 but they have generated a lot of (negative?) feedback and have since reverted to beta state?!?!
This report states “It’s fair to say that home page was not as successful as we had hoped.” Some lessons to learn from.
And on the Weblog follow the Macromedia.com Beta : The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and if you are so inclined, drop your comments as well.
Just the name is so original and so is their work: largersmall studio.
Watch out! There is an update your info scam out that is using Ebay logo to lure in personal login + email + credit card. The scam has already been reported to Ebay corporation. Urls provided
https://ebay.interpool.us/ - https://64.177.95.140/
Every once in a while, I will trail and go on a digging adventure sometimes after receiving an email. Found some threasures:
Briefing for a descent into heck: independent content providers, commerce and the wary dance they do around each other by Adam Greenfield of v-2 Organisation who recently published this must_read essay:
The minimal compact: An open-source constitution for post-national states of which following statements I fully support:
“Of interest are alternatives that are designed from the beginning to
Ensure the greatest freedom for the greatest number, without simultaneously abridging the freedoms of others.
Permit individuals with common goals and beliefs to act in their own interest at the global level and with all the privileges afforded nation states, even when those individuals are separated by distance.
Provide robust resistance to attempts to concentrate power, and other abuses of same.”
Read a review of Safari vs. Chimera by Jeffrey Zeldman.
“The topic of browser differences is as interesting as lint. But as web designers, we need to know about these differences in the same way that photographers need to know about lenses, lights, and film.”
How about a Live. Free. Designing with standards session with Jeffrey Zeldman? In Albany, NY? Registration requested.
A new powagirrrl addition and new site for recollective. Love their logo.
Excellent interview of Kelly Goto, co-author of Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works from the good folks at Digital-Web.
Magnifique! LA GRAPHICA is a wonderful and luscious voyage through lenses + visual treatment mostly from California / LA backdrops.
This is a really original way of presenting a portfolio with layers whereas the logo is constant on each of the screen; edgy and talented tenmetal design.
Freelance: Women in Design—Revisited by Maria Piscopo.
“There has certainly been a change in the marketplace in which unique creativity/thought versus image/size has become the parameter for larger companies to choose their design studios. Corporations have realized that smaller studios can not only achieve what larger design firms can achieve from a production and management stance, but they are by nature more open to experimentation and change.”
Look Ma, No Tables by glish.com. If you are making the transition to CSS layouts
Joe Gillespie which we interviewed a little while ago has published a very good editorial: Web Design as a Career - a must read overall look at what a team is made of.
The 3D flash designs are masterly done: TETSOO production
Visit this virtual museum and discover Matisse - Picasso the exhibit this project was produced by LR2A and company.
Red Herring is now bye-bye even if the magazine had a circulation of about 275,000. Seems like it was dedicated to a dead_market: the venture capital community.
Unicode - Multilingual charts -> for the special character useage.
Liquid Design for the Web by Adrian Roselli
Some suggested reading on fluid design:
Flexible Layouts with CSS Positioning by Dug Falby
All CSS articles at ALA (A list apart)
Fluid Thinking by Peter-Paul Koch
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via: Jacob Metcalf
Architects' sites I found lately are really far out, and not what you would expect normall. Here is to exploring the web boundaries - check this one: ZBIG SZCZEPANSKI::ARCHITECT.
Tereza HadjiMina portfolio subdued tones is a visual delight - one would wish the projects be available in a larger size though.
The stop motion project ESCALATE is chosen Yahoo!Picks of the day on Feb. 22/03! Congrats Paul for a great initiative!
One of my fav author David Weinberger, Pieces Together the Web in this interview. His book, is a must read!
One of the largest site for posting portfolios has got through a complete redesign - coroflot.com.
Font collections with a zing site: House Industries
Fresh from the google trenches:
'Reassurance' a key word as Google grows by Stefanie Olsen and Margaret Kane
Does search engine's power threaten Web's independence? by Stefanie Olsen
Manage your intellectual capital. Licenses Explained | Creative Commons.
Did you know that there is in fact a story behind the famous greeking Lorem Ipsum? And where does it come from?
How to Keep Motivated in Crappy Times by Peter Shankman
Winkmedia becomes Winkreative same beautiful projects.
This is a huge site that as comprehensive overview of Art and Culture.
Macmillan Lynch Multimedia was misplaced... Kerry is NOT a powagirrrl - my bad! Sorry 'bout that! Their site was updated as well.
Editor David Talbot makes an appeal to Salon readers. Others, like Steve Gillard author of Netslaves have commented about impeding doomsday for a long while, republished some of his thoughs:
“They have spent 81m, and take in about 3m a year under their current financial plan. Their problem is that they have a staff of 50 people, a leasing agreement of $700K per year and there is no way to support that level of infrastructure off of a website.
The fact is that their mode of publishing is quickly being outmoded by blogs. While David Talbot is begging for cash, he neglects to mention that he was getting paid $191K for 2002. That's simply amazing. He and his top managers have drained millions in salary from Salon over the years.
The company never had a sense of sacrifice or financial discipline...”
Smooth operating with excellent portfolio: new circle media.
Beat explorations with imaginative graphics: Repercussion developed by Carla Diana.
Google's search for new ad revenue by Stefanie Olsen. You can read some comments on these here from Evhead (the thread has disappeared) but you can read this instead - it's as interesting. Shute, the thread don't work neither. Scroll to Dana B. on the FC Google Piece.
Study: Senior Women Reluctant to Cross Digital Divide. Despite the fact that American women now outnumber men in cyberspace, a new poll shows women over the age of 65 are more reluctant to use the Internet than any other group.
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ndlr: <comments Andi from Redoctober> It just goes to show that we, or for that matter all developers, hardware + software are riding our own wave of self centered design. With little concern given to the less tech inclined segments of the population???
This is an interesting concept -> Geocaching - The sport where YOU are the search engine.
Clean shot -> Who said corporate could be visually slick? Satama.
Exclaim new site is to the point! Love the nav + great projects!
The new Creative Behavior issue is out!
Off I go! Exciting as ever the SXSW 2003/interactive conference -> our industry spring break is right around the corner. I'm looking forward to renew and recharge by attending fav sessions. To mingle and meet with the fab people. To see friends and have the immense privilege of their presence and talk till we drop. Looking forward to meeting new faces as well.
Actually it's great, not having to explain what is it you do professionally ROFL. I'll see you there.
