Category Archives: Web Design

Discussing The Brand of a Browser

13-Jan-08

I attended a fantastic presentation by Steven Heller hosted by the Art Directors Club of Metro Washington DC on Friday night and he explained that Brand is a fetish… it is when people don’t just identify with something but embrace it. This concept fascinates me especially when it falls in the realm of an [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Get Out

14-Nov-07

In the last few months (what many are referring to as) the DC “Tech” community has really ramped up. I first started seeing it after Barcamp and since then there has been the addition of lots of interesting events in the DC area and even the online formation of the DC Tech Community on Ning.

First [...]

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 [...]

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 . [...]