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I was lamenting.. hell I was complaining bitterly to one Jared Christensen today @work that I don’t get any love as a designer, because my way of designing is not trendy.
Jared made the offhand remark that I should blog about that, because it would create a crap storm of Croftian proportions, and we all love a good crap storm online don’t we?
Read the rest »Love that title! The theme that currently graces Sillyness is my 5th theme for Habari, titled Latest Crap.
The goals for this theme were pretty straightforward:
Read the rest »I know what you all are thinking: Not Again.
As much as I liked the technical merit of my previous design, it just didn’t give the content the stage I like. I have always preached the mantra of "Content is King" here on Sillyness. What kind of person would I be if I didn’t take my own advice?
Read the rest »One of my new vices is watching the home improvement shows on HGTV. Heather and I are working out the home improvements/renovations we want to get done this year, and the shows we have been watching have been pretty helpful with that.
So lets break down the scenario. I am watching Color Splash this afternoon and decide that I really dig the technique of attaching translucent colored plastic to cabinetry. We want to do something to freshen up our kitchen and that would be a great, inexpensive way to do it.
Read the rest »Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, BAM! I hit you with a new design.
I really dug the previous design, but it never felt… refined. There was just something missing. So I started thinking about what designs of mine that I have liked the most over the years, and each one I came up with had a couple of things in common.
Read the rest »So, after reflecting on my entry “Visual Harmony in Webdesign”, I got to thinking. It is all well and good to complain bitterly about the lack of artisitic principles that are found in some of todays design, but what does it really accomplish?
Nothing. So today I am starting a multi-part series covering some of the priciples found in the world of fine art, that can be applied to our web design. First up is Rhythm, or Art Rhythm.
Read the rest »One of the things that really struck me while at FOWD this week was the surprising lack of appreciation for white space, and visual harmony.
There has been a lot of talk about how web design isn’t art. While I agree that it isn’t art at this moment, I don’t agree that it should stay that way.
At the very least, webdesigners need to understand the rules of art, at least in part, to make useable, beautiful designs. It just seems to me that a number of designers today either do not understand these foundational ideas, or don’t see any value in them.
Read the rest »That’s right, the old place has a new coat of paint. Although I really liked the previous design, it just didn’t give me enough flexibility.
I had planned on starting a new series about WordPress MU, but the site design as it was just didn’t lend itself to that sort of thing. So I decided to back off the series until I had a design that fit more with what I wanted to accomplish with Sillyness. So out came some new colors, a revamped logo, and the most striking change, a grid.
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