Start a chain reaction, another one of those flash games that seems innocuous at first but becomes hard to let go (via cyn-c).
Learning from Times Square
Advertising for the sake of advertising, learning from Times Square. “It has become its own entity; an attraction in its own right. Who cares what its selling?”
Clubbed to death
We have loads of new Seal Club action coming at you. First off, a quick redesign. Got rid of the old look in favour of a cleaner, whiter layout. The page is now entirely swathed in Garamondy goodness or some other serif font.
Now for the fresh meat. Two new interviews for 5Q: Naz Hamid of Absenter and Joen Asmussen of NoScope. They’re fairly short and won’t take too long to read. While we’re on the subject here’s a quick visual recap of the five interviews so far:
That is all.
myStatus plugin for WordPress
Introducing my latest plugin for wordpress: myStatus. It allows you to create a simple personal status page to let the world know what you’re working on.
Great designers realign
Retroscope
A RetroScope is kind of like a personal security camera on a time-delay. Setup a video camera, tivo it, watch yourself 10 minutes later. Sounds like a good party trick.
Helping out an artist
Hey kids, if you’re a fan of the erasure vintage look and want to help out an artist in need, check out Tiphanie’s artworks on the cheap. She was nice enough to help me out on the first new conform series last year (image 16). I ordered one of her Luminary Bliss prints.
Design, structure and status
The last month or so has been an interesting one for the site. I started the redesign about a month ago and it’s still going strong. This time around, it’s not just about looks, most of my efforts have been concerned with structure; thinking about how people visit the site and ways to keep them around. It’s not easy. If you’re really interested, read the change log. The site will never be finished but this layout should stabilize within the next few weeks, I still haven’t figured out how Michael is actually quantifying his progress.
Despite my best efforts at becoming a structural whore, eightface has managed to pop-up on the radar of a few CSS gallery sites — most notably, CSS Beauty, Design Shack and Fadtastic. So, hello to all the new visitors and thanks for the constructive comments and feedback. I’ve made a few changes a result, namely toning down the grunge on some of the headers.
A few people have mentioned their love/hate of the grunge stylings. I’m inclined to agree that a lot of the grunge and erasure sites popping up are a direct response to the austere 37 Signals school of design that we see so much of these days. And yes, it is a fad. One of those things that floats across the internet every few years. Usually in response to an outpouring of corporate work and people wanting to do different things with their personal sites. The vintage, worn look is very forgiving and has been one of my staples since the days of Photoshop 4 on the family P90.
Stanford iTunes
Stanford iTunes has a number of lectures, music and videos available for download.
Book lawsuits hurt the authors
The rash of lawsuits against Google are hurting new authors, rather than helping them.