Secrets of Mental Math
Last night I started reading ‘Secrets of Mental Math‘ by Michael Shermer and Arthur Benjamin, a book packed full of Mental Maths Hacks.
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Grow – Illustration Concepts
As the Grow website is at the minute very text heavy, I’ve decided to experiment with illustrations in order to break up the content. This post will look at the steps I have taken in designing the Grow Characters from Scratch.
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Grow – Email Template Sample
To show how the new ‘Grow’ website will influence other media such as HTML email I have designed a sample.
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Grow – Wireframing
In order to sort out the mounds of content provided for the Grow Website, the time has come for a spot of wireframing.
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Catch the Worm – Time Management
The first semester is drawing to a close so it’s time to think about the second; Major Project time. I’ve organised a gantt chart that sets out each stage in the production of ‘Catch the Worm’
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Grow Logo – Further Refinement
In this post I will documenting the step by step process of designing the Grow logo from concept to final product.
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Grow Logo – Early Concepts
Over the last few days I’ve been feverishly drawing Grow, Logo concepts. Here’s a few selected pages straight from the Moleskine.
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Grow – Paper Protoyping
In order to get myself started on the ‘Grow’ live project, I’ve decided to partake in a bit of the old paper-prototyping.
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Grow – Why I’ll submit for consideration
My thoughts on the why spec work is not ‘all bad’ and why I’ll be submitting the ‘Grow’ live project for client consideration.
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Grow – Live Project
Today we received this semester’s Live Project. We will be branding and creating a website for ‘Grow Community Garden’
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‘Just My Type’ Book Review
A brief review of Simon Garfield’s latest offering, ‘Just My Type’
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Astronomers can’t set type
The tale of Dr George Van Den Bergh and his misguided attempt to shake up the print industry by introducing a radically different way of typesetting.
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Create a Wordmark with CSS
In this short exercise we’re going to look at how we can use CSS generated pseudo-elements to fake ‘blocky’ letter forms.
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How long does it take to form a habit?
Catch the Worm is all about learning to rise earlier in the morning, but how long does it take for it to become habitual? I’ve been researching to find out.
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Build Conference
Coffee, Frank Chimero, Beer, Pick & Mix, Owls, Drop Caps, Jurassic Park, Jessica Hische, Open Book Exam, Gowalla, Keegan Jones, Typekit Cupcakes, Hand crafted, Threadless, Beers, Tim Van Damme, Golden Spiral, Tim Brown, Beers, Meagan Fisher, Pause, Liz Danzico, Bulletproof, Dan Cederholm.
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Introducing ‘Catch the Worm’
After thinking better of going with my initial Major Project idea, Cronify, I’ve been racking my brains for the last week trying to come up with a better idea. The result? ‘Catch the Worm’.
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Using Hyphenator.js
In the print world justified text is a lot more common than on the web. The web’s inability to hyphenate text leads to huge rivers of white opening up in the copy, hampering readability. Mathias Nater’s javascript library gives us a practical way to implement that print look.
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Cronify is dead, long live Cronify.
After a couple of weeks of intense debate, I’ve decided not to go ahead with Cronify for my final year Major Project. Why?
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Refresh – Lessons on how not to develop a Web App
At this months Refresh a talk was given by Rumble Labs on the trails and tribulations of developing their fourth coming web app, ‘Onotate’.
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‘Cronify’ is born.
I’ve just registered the domain for my proposed major project idea; cronify.me. Cronify is a way to amalgamate your social media, in chronological order. The ‘This is your Life’ of social media.
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My Blog: The Making of
Here’s a quick run down of how I went about designing the blog you see before you (assuming your not reading this through the feed.)
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Responsive Enhancement
Why we should design mobile first and how Responsive Web Design may spell the end of the grid as we know it.
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Lamenting the passing of childhood at PK Night
I attended Pecha Kucha night at the Black Box on Monday evening. If you don’t know the drill it’s, ten speakers showing twenty slides for twenty seconds. The theme was Curiosity. From anti-paramilitary graffiti to exploding cows, it had it all.
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Filling ‘the Gap’
‘WTF’, ‘beyond horrible’, ‘fiasco’ — some of the words used to describe the controversial Gap rebrand. However the words “I could do better” resonated louder than any other yesterday.
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One Year; Three Options
Final year in Interactive Multimedia Design means major project time. Over the next year I will design and develop a web-based product. Here’s a short list of three possible project concepts.
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Which Quote?
Last night while marking up a report style article I managed to work myself into state of ‘semantic confusion.’ Do I use a blockquote or q element? — Can I add a name to to the cite attribute? — What happens if I have a quote in a quote? I decided to write a short guide for the use of these elements.
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