I've had a good year over all. Full of great surprises and challenges. I look forward to what the new year 2009 has to offer. Happy New Year everyone.
I've had a good year over all. Full of great surprises and challenges. I look forward to what the new year 2009 has to offer. Happy New Year everyone.
"Icons is everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye." Icons are a web designers best friend. One can never have enough. For the icon maniac in all of us. Get them here [1] [1] http://www.noupe.com/icons/50-most-beautiful-icon-sets-created-in-2008.html
"95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography. Information design is typography Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites: Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him. With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer." Read the complete article [1] Some concepts never go out of style. Instead they are reborned as technology evolves. I have been thinking about a minimalist design with only text. What do you guys think. [1] http://informationarchitects.jp/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period/
I love icons. Simplified drawings/graphics that help get the point accross. They are graphic designer's best friend I think. One can never have enough of them. vectortuts.com [1] has good list of free icon resources. Here [2] it is. Enjoy! [1] http://www.vectortuts.com [2] http://vectortuts.com/articles/web-roundups/60-free-vector-icon-packs-for-design-professionals/
I'm afraid I no longer support that browser. With the soon introduction of Internet Explorer 8, I've moved on to work on IE7 and up. Viva Firefox [1]!!!!! [1] http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
I'm back at work after the thanksgiving holidays. It was good to spend time with the family. I missed my brother's and my mom this year. But I'll get to see them this weekend. I'm really looking forward to that.