Category: Design & Dev

==== I just took the “2007 A List Apart Web Design Survey.”:http://alistapart.com/articles/webdesignsurvey If you are involved in making the web, you should too. Surveys like this help us designers and developers get a grasp of where our industry currently stands, and what the average web worker is doing and making. We’re certainly an outspoken industry,…

==== I recently finished the site for Jessica White photography. I could wax verbose, but suffice it to say it’s clean, lean and done. So go “have a look”:http://jessicawhitephoto.com … and keep your eyes open for a familiar face. Also keep your eyes open for Jessica’s portrait photography site, Bliss Portraits. I simply love how…

“Happy Cog”:http://happycog.com redesigns. “People”:http://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/february#thu-08-zeldman_cog “love”:http://www.beatnikpad.com/bagatelle/ “it.”:http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2007/02/08/happycog.html GB thinks it is swell. (It’s very Stan. GB likes Stan’s stuff). People repeatedly mention sentence as navigation as being so wonderful and clever. GB wonders if people would have made the same fuss about his “paragraph as navigation”:http://gregorybowers.com/ had he put it on every page. GB thinks not.…

Word of advice, Intel: Do not attempt to make computer processing chips cool. It’s a losing battle.

– Seth Stevenson of Slate

I recently completed an illustration for an upcoming benefit calendar for a friend of mine. She’s dealing with the early stages of cervical cancer, so a group of artists decided to come together and produce a calendar of our interpretations of her (she does some modelling on the side, so we had plenty of photography to base our work on). I’m not certain of the details, but I believe profits from the calendars will go straight to her. Regardless of the semantics, she’s a fantastic person, and we’re all pulling for her.