I find flag design to be very interesting, and I’m constantly surprised to see how much bad flag design there is. I credit/blame the 99% Invisible podcast for giving me this appreciation. It started with the Vexillonaire episode. I learned so much from it — first of which is that vexillology is the scientific study of the history, …
I thought this was hilarious. Typeface humor…God, I’m a design nerd.
Jill is officially starting her business today, and her “real” website is now live at jillchapmanshiatsu.com. Have a look, and if you’re in the area, sign up for a treatment!
This is more of a note to self: Hex Color Picker is a useful tool that adds a web color picker to the Mac’s built-in color pickers. The best feature is the magnifying glass which lets you choose any color on the screen to get the hex value (very useful to find the color on …
Uni Watch is a blog all about sports uniforms, and often has some interesting articles. (It’s where I learned about baseball’s “futuristic” uniforms…glad I missed those games.) Anyway, there’s a pretty good one about hidden elements in sports logos (inspired by a discussion of the FedEx logo’s negative space arrow). In it they mention the …
A new site I built is now live: Hollister Thomas Photography. The original designer sort of disappeared so I took his initial rough design, finished the details, and built the site. It was a lot of fun to do, especially adding the Lightbox 2.0 slideshow and the page load/fade-in code (which I needed to do …
The design of this site has been pretty much the same since I bought the domain in 2000, when I hastily put the site up to help with a job search. I’ve been wanting to redesign for years, and lately wanted to add new features and switch over to PHP. Anyway, I finally decided to …
I made some minor updates to my mother-in-law’s website, barbarapeavey.com. I kept the basic design, but gave it a slightly more modern look (since the original design was done in ’01 and looked it). I also cleaned up the HTML & CSS a lot — I’m on a no-table kick now that I know how …