Design news | Jun 03
Powagirrrl per excellence, Drew Europeo has launched her collective commercial portfolio; she is also involved with the Half-Project, Philweavers and we can expect a brand new graFiKAS soon!
A well-done corporate site for Avenue A.
AIGA/LA Launches New Design-Community Focused Website
They approached the redesign of the Website with the recognition that the most efficient course for day-to-day community for members is most likely to take place online.
A site dedicated to kids is back STADIUM ACTIVITY TOWN.
. .. sekiray . .. . has now returned!
The producer of Requiem from a dream site was updated -- murAtDesiGn --
Long time netdiver portfolio gallery resident signalgrau designbureau is preparing the launch of a new site! Something to look forward to.
Picture perfect and a minimalist design for Kurt Arrigo_photography
Microsoft: No new versions of IE for Mac by Ian Fried
“Microsoft said Friday that it is halting development of future Macintosh versions of its Internet Explorer browser, citing competition from Apple Computer's Safari browser.”
Read Zeldman's eulogy on topic.
A smart, beautiful and dedicated powagirrrl, scene360 founder, Adriana de Barros is artist of the month at Media Inspiration.
A new Creative Behavior issue is out! Interviews with artists and an excellent process overview of Storytelling with flash: turning *effects* into meaning by Paul Ortchanian.
This is a great four part online documentary on the roots and music influence behind techno and electronic music: Sounds Like Techno produced by Springtime Productions.
Who wants fruit? Nice flash site for TANGERINA design!
Eye candy* it's role in communication design on afterchaos.
It's time to vote for your fav sites for the upcoming Flash Forward NYC 2003 awards. Do it now!
The ultimate reference for researching tall buildings: SkyscraperPage
A conversation with Jeffrey Zeldman / 2 by Brian Alvey
“Publishing a personal site is the best way to experiment with different kinds of design and content, to find out what interests a specific audience and what doesn’t, to discover what makes people burrow into a sub-section or ignore it, to learn how to manage and refresh large amounts of content, to develop an authorial voice and maybe also a signature visual style, to begin understanding the community aspects of Web publishing, and to learn what makes a site a living entity instead of a piece of work you finish and walk away from.
If you’re a commercial designer or developer and you don’t have a personal site, you’re missing an incredible opportunity to interact with real people, discover how they actually use the Web and bring these lessons to bear in your work.”
Architects' organization taking a cool approach: NSAA - Nova Scotia Association of Architects.
Another copycat! This time the site includes a script to prevent right-clicking context menu to avoid copy of the graphic (source code / second link)??? Go figure! Check: Cruck.webbyen.dk + Webbyen.dk
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Text: “Cruck! har nu valgt at lukket siden i et stykke tid... Dette handlrr om 1-4 dage. Da jeg muligvis vil komme med nyt design Spørgsmål eller andet så klik.”
Translation: “Cruck! has now chosen to shut down the website for a period of time. Hopefully just for 1-4 days. I will then probably launch a new design. Questions or comments, click.”
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ndlr: Tx to everyone who forwarded translations - you guys rock and are invaluable.
The Economist Style Guide for journalists (or aspirant writers).
MediaRights.org <AU> is a nonprofit community Web site that is designed to help you use social issue documentary films.
They offer ways to find films you are looking for, organize events around a specific film, or make more meaningful films about issues in your community.
Talking about music - if you need an original musical score or sound effects for an interactive presentation, cd-rom or advertising - Music4You offers diversity in musical styles for a sound experience.
SIMPLYORDINARY her work surely denies this. Welcome a new powagirrrl!
Via Z -> Auto popups dead? For years, artsy designers have used self-launching popup windows to exert total control over every aspect of their site, including the size of the visitor’s browser window. It doesn’t work any more.
Since Mozilla 0.9, most modern browsers have given users the ability to turn off self-launching windows. And most of us do just that, thereby eliminating unwanted popup and popunder ads. This also means we can no longer see your self-launching porfolio site.
You have to see this flash site that has a cartoonish feel, the interface functiinalities are delicious: Cavach
Could You Be Sending Spam? Spammers are using new tools to hide the origin of their messages by Lincoln Spector, special to PCWorld.com
When two giants sleep together what do you get? A monster!
AOL, Microsoft pact shakes up Web rivalries. Deal spells big competitive threat to Apple, RealNetworks by Reshma Kapadia, Reuters
Forms, usability, and the W3C DOM by Peter-Paul Koch.
“Despite the specification having been around for nearly five years and a workable level of browser support for about three, the average Web developer doesn’t yet have a clear view of what the W3C DOM can do for Web sites.”
Simple visual explorations but yet really original way of presenting itself: RAKU-GAKI
The Greeking Machine: pick from Hillbily, Classic Latin, Metropolitan, Pseudo German, the Matrix or Techno Babble for your comping requirements.
Composition and light usage by maestro || Tony Garcia Photography || design by powagirrrl Karen Knecht!
No this is not a doodler, nor a graffiti portfolio; it is the home of the Headbangers!
Getty Images has got a new magazine promoting their top stock photography talent. Check Taxi 1 and Taxi 2.
How to display fonts? Immersive experience at Andinistas.
This is a pure visual delight: her illustrations and design are executed with great sense of composition and color. Meet our new powagirrrl: ............ eendar ................
Ever evolving Hilary Shenton has got a brand new face!
Quirky, fast and asking the right questions: I am always hungry.
WARNING: the following site requires a fast connection and may be hazardous to epileptic users.
Wanna see how some are exploring the web frontiers? This Transmission.com.sg magazine is. BTW the site navigation is the 4 forefront PLAY boxes... the background is part of my desktop :))
Jeffrey Zeldman on web standards / 1 by Brian Alvey
“With a boss who doesn’t understand the benefits of making a change to the way things are done in-house, you again need to point out what it’s costing you to keep doing things the way you do and show the benefits of converting to lower-maintenance, more logical and more automated ways of working that tap into XML-based tools and services...
Just don’t feel you’re trapped because your boss doesn’t get it. If a handful of designers and developers could change the way all browsers are made and perceived — including those from Microsoft and Netscape — you and your colleagues can surely reason with a reluctant boss.”
There are times when one discovers a true treasure and what *interactivity* and *open-source*is all about. Indeed AMFA was a medecine for apathy! Just follow the guidelines in each of the issues. Some source files are available for download. Brillant!
Want some good news? Friends of Ed will be revived since Apress bought the majority of their assets. Gosh when I think of all the talented authors... I guess it's back to writing!
dstripe is our new powagirrrl! Her portfolio is a rich assemblage of projects.
It is official, June 28 is a very special date for Carrie Bickner, a geeky librarian! Congrats girrrl!
Half-blog, half-ezine mixed with serious branding projects: 4vs5™
UrbanMedium catches the pulse of citybeats and social concerns. Brillant execution.
One word to describe Njuu no° 8 //// Design : paramount talent!
The National Design Triennial is a major event and you can see the 80 top designers that were picked to represent the best of what's going on in our industry.
Style and minute attention to details characterizess Bud Peen Illustration
Polyvalence describes best the talent of Warren Heise. His illustrations differ so much in styles, yet they maintain a high design quality.
An intriguing storyboard that draws in your attention, choose a point of departure and watch and view I3you amazing flash movie while getting to your destination!
Calling it Quits: How to leave a job or client without burning bridges by Kyberlee Roth
“Egos are on the line, and people act badly when they feel dismissed or rejected. So the greatest challenge is to make them feel that it isn't about them, but about the match. In some ways the skills that go into a good goodbye in romantic relationships are similar.”
Design Briefs: The Whys, Hows, and What Fors by Jerron I. Smith
Talking about books - just indulged from cover to cover into the IndexA from one of my fav artist, Charles Wilkin.
He is an exquisite master of collages that are quirky, beautiful, challenging, original... interesting to see that every artist in a period of his life has favorites design objects or palette. You can see such different time_styles in his book. Definitely worth a place in your library!
Jeffrey's new book is out!!! Designing with Web Standards which is where it's going! Fetch - learn + grow! Will post a review after reading my copy :)
Marc Newson interview by Designboom
Salone satellite 2003 coverage of the young designers on show during the Milan design week.
And the beat goes on - the king_o_web has got a brand new face! (Jeffrey) Zeldman Presents.
Setting Priorities by Janice Fraser
“Nearly every company I've worked with since becoming a web professional six years ago has lacked an efficient way to decide which things to do first. Put 10 people into a room for an hour, and they'll surely come up with a wish list a mile long.”
Well what do you know The Chopping Block agency is in revamping mode but you can visit their older sites... gosh they have been around for a while.
Really interesting to see their evolution... and anticipating their newest reinvention! To follow.
Six Tips for Improving Your Design Documentation by Ryan Olshavsky
“If you are a designer or product planner, you probably create documents of some kind to capture your design decisions and solutions. Documentation is a crucial component of successful product planning and implementation...”
For those using the WASP link for the browser update (BUC) campaign need to read the latest concerning the status of this issue.
Illuminating the Blind Spot: Leadership in the Context of Emerging Worlds. Read report.
“The waves of change sweeping the world–digitization, globalization, demographic shifts, migration, and individualization, as well as the rapid degradation of social and natural capital–are giving rise to arenas of clashing forces. These clashing forces play out as tensions between multiple polarities: speed and sustainability, exploration and exploitation, global and local ways of organizing, top-down and bottom-up approaches to leadership.
The following five practices appear paramount:
observing: seeing reality with fresh eyes
sensing: tuning in to emerging patterns that inform future possibilities
presencing: accessing one’s inner sources of creativity and will
envisioning: crystallizing vision and intent
executing: acting in an instant to capitalize on new opportunities.”
