Category Archives: Design- General

Interactive Information Design and Social Media

19-Sep-07

I have a bit of a fetish for awesome information design and it gets nearly compulsive when it becomes a reacting entity on the world wide web. The idea that massive amounts of information, many times being ever-changing and dynamic can be molded into a visual form, manipulated, and sifted through is all sorts of [...]

Sesame Street Tips for Back to School Design Students

12-Sep-07

The feeling of September recalls warm memories of excitement I used to have when going back to school. I love school. I was that kid who begged to sit in the front row and obnoxiously raised my hand to participate in everything. My thirst to learn was only expedited as I entered college as a [...]

Current.tv: a Network with Style Part 2 of 2

07-Sep-07

Brand encompasses so much more than just a logo, it involves the entire experience a user/consumer has with a product. Current.tv has built a brand upon a foundation of engaging user-generated content that is beautifully complimented with unique motion graphics .

The fantastic thing about web 2.0 is that it engages the user in [...]

Get Ready for BarCamp DC!

08-Aug-07

BarCamp, according to Wikipedia, is an unconference that “open sources” the organizational process of FooCamp by codifying it in a wiki and evangelizing it through a Web 2.0 tool kit. FooCamp comes from the term Foobar, which (oh, duh) is exemplified in…
// PHP code
$foo = ‘Hello’;
$bar = ‘World’;
$foobar = $foo . [...]

The Best Design Advice I have Ever Received

14-Jul-07

Recently I came across a post by Veerle Pieters called “What a designer needs to do to get a job”. Packed full of advice, this article spawned a plethora of additional conversation on the subject matter proving that those looking to make career moves and students hoping to find a means to pay back their [...]