Design

Upcoming Appearances

In Community, Conferences, Design, Event on 29 September 2008 with no comments

I’m really excited about a few upcoming appearances. I’ll be speaking on community and design at some of the best conferences around.

An Event Apart, Chicago, 13-14 October
The Wisdom of Communities
The web’s greatest gift is that it gives everyone a voice, but how you design and manage community features will determine if you get a chorus [...]

Fray/Threadless Loves True Stories Winner!

In Design, Fray on 22 September 2008 with 2 comments

Fray issue 3 will be on the theme “Sex and Death” - more on that soon - and we teamed up with Threadless for a design challenge. Today, we’re announcing the winner: Judith Holofernes by Frank Barbara. Well done, Franx!
The winning illustration will be featured on the cover of Fray issue 3, and is [...]

DePo Masthead

In Design on 16 September 2008 with 34 comments

A few months ago, Matt asked me if I’d be interested in whipping up a blog template design for WordPress. I was swamped at the time, as I pretty much always am, so I filed it away in the back of my head, but the opportunity kept nagging at me.
What I really wanted was [...]

Shift-Reload, Baby!

In Design on 30 June 2008 with 12 comments

There’s a little design refresh going on here. The header illustration is by Ernst Haeckel, a turn of the (last) century nature illustrator who depicted the world as he wanted it to be. His drawings of squid were part of the inspiration for my tattoo.

Fray Loves Threadless

In Design, Fun on 25 June 2008 with 2 comments

I loves me some Threadless, so it’s a thrill to collaborate with them on Fray. Along with our buddies at Blurb and Stephen Tobolowsky, we’re sponsoring a design competition: Threadless Loves True Stories. In addition to some great prizes and a pile of cash, the winning design will appear on a Threadless shirt and on [...]

Pixish, Spec Work, and Graggers

In Business, Design, Pixish on 20 February 2008 with 29 comments

This post also appears in Pixish News.
During the Jewish holiday of Purim, we tell a story about a dude named Haman. He was one in a long line of history’s baddies who tried to do away with the Jews. He was so evil that, to this day, every time his name is read aloud, everyone [...]

Hey Apple, Don’t Make Me Think

In Apple, Design, Geek, Interface, iPhone on 23 January 2008 with 17 comments

As an official Apple Fanboy and Interface Geek, I have a complaint about the recent iteration of Apple’s iPhone software (1.1.3).
On the iPhone, the web browser is called Safari, just like on the Mac. This sameness is reinforced by the visual design of both applications. But in the new iPhone software, when they added a [...]

If Elected, I Will Not Serve

In Design, Politics, Powazek on 20 November 2007 with 2 comments

After studying the pearls of wisdom in Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos in the NY Times, I started to wonder what a POWAZEK ‘08 poster would look like. So, here it is. Given the field, I think I might actually do okay in the primaries.

For what it’s worth, my favorite logo of the current [...]

Leopard is Fugly

In Apple, Design, Leopard on 29 October 2007 with 14 comments

Look, I know everyone else is doing it. And I know that I tend to hate Apple stuff until I get used to it. Still, I have to say it. Apple’s new OS, Leopard, is fugly.

The space theme? Instantly tired. You’re gonna regret it. (I already do.)
The new default folder icons are amazing in their [...]

T-Post: Magazine in the form of a T-Shirt

In Design, Magazines on 8 October 2007 with 1 comment

T-Post comes six times a year, contains one story and one illustration per issue, and is printed on cotton. That’s right, T-Post is a magazine in the form of a t-shirt.
I just received the September issue, pictured above. The story, printed on the inside of the shirt, is about companies turning away from the murderous [...]