Category Archives: The Web

Rant: Web 2.0 Look? Lets Talk About “Good Design”

05-Jan-08

From Twitter:
mringlein: my new years resolution is stop designing web 2.0 … i am all about the 2.5 this year. vintage wallpaper backgrounds and real life objects
mringlein: gradients and reflections are out …. the masking tape and handwriting fonts are in baby!
SamanthaToy: @mringlein http://www.24-7media.de/ was doing that stuff since forums [...]

No Typhoid on the Thule Trail

19-Dec-07

You can still press return to size up the situation , but dying of cholera is much less likely. One of your players may stay behind in Vegas with a cocktail waitress named Starla but no one is going to come down with a case of the measles. Covered wagon? Try [...]

Response: Should Web Designers Know How to Code?

27-Nov-07

Martin Ringlein of n’clud recently wrote a post called
“Should Web Designers Know How to Code?”:
All designers must know the medium and canvas in which they design for. How can a sculptor sculpt without knowing the difference in stones? How can a painter paint without knowing the difference in brushes, paint or canvas? How can [...]

Digital vs. Print: Newspapers

10-Nov-07

Thursday evening a few colleagues and I visited the interactive offices of the WashingtonPost.com. With super impressive digs the folks over in their Arlington offices are doing some multidimensional work that ventures far beyond the expectations one would have for a local news paper.

When taking a look at the Top 20 Online Current Events & [...]

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 [...]