Recent Work: New City Church
These are some logos that I created for New City Church that were not used.
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These are some logos that I created for New City Church that were not used.
Yahoo UI, Blueprint, Tripoli, YAML the list of CSS frameworks keeps growing and they’ll probably be more coming out of the woodworks, which makes me think about what happens to all these little psd to xhtml services out there. I think they’re will always still be a need for them, but I’m starting to think that the more frameworks come out, it will just be a matter of picking which one to use instead of building your templates from scratch. You’ll clearly still have a strong fundamental knowledge of how CSS works but it’s interesting to see how this process will be changing.
Blueprint has me thinking about CSS frameworks and why there aren’t more out there floating around. I suppose there could be alot of reasons for this, positioning in CSS has a few options and everyone seems to have their opinions. Some people think all layouts should be fluid, some don’t, I believe it depends on the site you’re building and how you generally feel about the audience viewing your site. I’m going to be digging through Blueprint this week, I have the feeling that the code is going to be pretty tight so we’ll see, maybe this could spark a new trend.
One of the great promises of RSS when it first came out was the fact that we now had an opportunity to replace email as a method of communicating with each other, one of the big draws of doing this was to avoid spam and have trusted channels to communicate with each other. If you want to mail me you simply subscribe to my account, I accept you and when I want to send you mail it is delivered to you via an RSS feed. With services like Pownce and Twitter gaining in popularity I think we’re finally getting close to the RSS as email model of communicating online.
Working inside an interactive creative department that routes a lot of copy and design changes internally through printed copies, it would be nice if these changes could be communicated directly on the web page being discussed. Diigo is a nice solution in that it offers a nice features groups with a privacy option. You don’t want annotations available to the public so creating a private group where you can invite members on your team only to view changes and modifications is really nice. Diigo would work for just about any other group that needs to collaborate on a web project as well.
May’s Refresh meetup is happening this wednesday at UM’s Communications School. If you are interested in coming out please head on over to the Google group, Upcoming or the site and get more information. Hope to see you there.
After reading this article I’m glad to see democracy is alive and well in Russia. It has been interesting to read and hear about what has been happening to Garry Kasparov as he tries to let the world know about the dramatic erosion of Russia’s young democracy. Putin is definitely out to get this guy.
Just wrapped up the Ourscene logo last night. This project was a good lesson in learning that sometimes less is more and that you don’t need to keep hacking away at something if it just isn’t working. I’ll be writing a post on the process over at the Ourscene blog shortly which I will link up from here.
It’s only fitting that the company that is setting out to index the world’s information should be the one that would lead in the information visualization space. As we collect more and more data in our lives we are going to have to start getting creative in terms of how we consume and visualize it. I believe that 2007 is going to be the year when alot of people and companies start thinking hard about the visualization of information. Google is already in this space. Google finance has incredible flash based charting. Reader and Trends are utilizing visualizations, but it would be great to see Google start pushing some visualizations into results and also get more creative in terms of what they are doing with visualizations.
I haven’t tried Pizza Fusion, the all natural organic pizza chain that started in Deerfield Beach FL, but word on the streets is that it’s mighty tasty. There’s a location opening in Fort Lauderdale in 2 days.