Archive for the ‘Graphic Design’ Category

Javelin Strategy & Research

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

Presenting the new Javelin Strategy & Research website design. Thanks to John Smiddy for the ultra-rapid turnaround on the visual elements. This site represents one of the fastest and most intense single-weekend coding sprees I've ever experienced. I feel like a zombie, and I'm sick of staring at my PowerBook ...

My Favorite Mac OS X Apps

Sunday, September 12th, 2004

What are your favorite/essential apps? This game keeps coming around every so often, and now's a good time to play since I'm ludicrously busy with multiple design projects and am making full use of every scrap of the 1.25 GB of RAM my PowerBook has. I even saw my first ...

Revisiting Fireworks

Thursday, September 2nd, 2004

A while back, after the first dot upgrade to Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004, I had given up on the program due to abysmal performance issues between it and Dreamweaver, and had switched to using Photoshop for most of my web graphics. A colleague pointed out that there was a Fireworks ...

Menus and the Hired Help

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report: Architectural Digest vs. This Old House (A List Apart No. 184) This one left me ROTFLMAO: I look forward to the day when most people who hire folks like us to design, structure, and program their web presences treat us more like ...

Unique Garden Statuary

Sunday, June 20th, 2004

CORNERSTONE CRAFTS Shameless plug: If you are looking for nice original statuary for your home or garden, such as pensive gargoyles, hidden statues, exotic plaque designs, ornate shelves, unique fountains, etc., then check out Oren and Justin Riak's work here. These are some gorgeous designs. Certainly not the ...