Two of my absolute favorite people in our industry square off in an epic layer tennis battle. I don’t know who to root for. Go! Fight! Win! Both of you! Visit site »
The responses to Veerle asking “What is graphic design?” are pretty interesting. It’s amazing both how different and how similar some of the responses are, and how some people consider it art and some don’t.
To me, graphic design is simply visual communication. It’s not a fine art (like drawing, painting, dance, or playing piano), but it is a design art (along with fashion design, interior design, architecture, etc.). Visit site »
Audio just became available of the SXSW panel Veloso, Veerle, Kelsey and I put together. This panel got very mixed reviews, so listen at your own risk. :) Visit site »
A beautiful personal expression site based around the idea of scrapbooking, with a gorgeous Flash-based UI and set of wonderfully feminine default templates by the likes of Veerle Pieters and Cindy Li (and others, too). Includes spport for pulling your photos from Flickr, and several other services.
This is what happens when people take decidedly geeky things (blogs, open APIs, wizzy Flash UIs, and so forth) and mash them up with things real (as in non-geeky) people want. Congrats to everyone involved with this — it looks like a really, really impressive web application.
Sidenote: between this and Picnik, the Flash developers are kind of kicking our ass on the web app front. Where are the web standards-based apps that work this well?
Sidenote #2: Anyone know what backend technologies are used in Scrapblog? Visit site »
Oh man, this is great. Varick Rosete sketched people at SXSW — including me and my panelmates. Even got my dark circles under my eyes and a little shark nibbling on my finger. Killer. I love it. Visit site »
The mini-site related to today’s SXSW panel by myself, Bryan, Veerle, and Kelsey. Chock-full of interviews with your favorite web designers. Visit site »
Veerle shows us how to make glossy, aqua-rific buttons in Photoshop using the built-in vector tools. Visit site »
Veerle Pieter’s new design is beautiful! Great illustrations. Visit site »
Designers show off their (physical) workspaces… Visit site »