Today is Heather’s birthday. Send her some lovin.
I love my new neighborhoodie.
Photo by Heather.
I’m a designer for a living. I spend my days moving pixels. Sometimes I feel like all those pixels on the screen own me. Now everybody knows – I am my pixels’ bitch.
Sorry for the business intrusion, but we’ve got a contract position to fill at Technorati. So if you’re a hardcore xhtml/css wonk in San Francisco and you’re interested in a 1-2 month, in-house contract, read on!
UPDATE: Position filled!
San Francisco Stories started out as a website, then became a book published by So New Media. It went out of print there a year ago. I finally got around to republishing it, thanks to the good folks at Lulu. I got my copy today and it looks great. Check it out!
Cross one thing off [...]
Caroline strips down her old site and relaunches at Each Man. (Aside to Caz: I got the reference.) Tom goes minimal with Plastic Bag. (Aside to Tom: Bold, confident design. Props!) I’d say there was a trend here, except that Matt just took his previously stripped-down A Whole Lotta Nothing and layered on the CSS [...]
Photo by Katy Raddatz
It’s nine months ago today that Heather and I were married. And every day I’m more glad.
Happy nine month anniversary, baby.
Jeff Veen makes a great comment about intimidating interfaces and I couldn’t agree more. My favorite recent example of this was at Tickets.com. Try to buy concert tickets and this is the first thing you see:
Captchas (those annoying “type that crap from the image in the box, you monkey”) are annoying enough, but the bold, [...]
I’ve been posting photos to Ephemera for over 15 months now (666 photos as of today – creepy!). Any content-based site that runs long enough eventually has to solve the how-do-I-find-stuff problem. Blogs do this with archives by date and category. Others increasingly use search, leaving it to the user to figure out what they [...]
The second issue of Heather’s and my labor of love photo maagazine has been published!
Issue 2 of JPG Magazine, the quarterly of brave new photography, is here! Inside you’ll find 43 photographic interpretations of the word “lost.” Also includes a set of powerful portraits by featured photographer Ryan Keberly of Detroit’s disposessed, as well as [...]
I’m really enjoying the crappy camera in my Sidekick 2 lately. You can see the results in my Flickr Photos Tagged Hiptop.
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