Frank Chimero on Design

Jul. 16, 2008 in design

Usually the little bits and pieces of interesting stuff I find online land in my Tumblelog, and Frank Chimero did too, but then I thought this is actually cool enough it should be in the blog. Frank is an illustrator and…

What’s Design Mean to You? Interview with Vinay Venkatraman

Jul. 6, 2008 in design, interview, video

A while back I asked here on the blog “What’s Design Mean to You?” Just before reboot I had the idea to ask the smart people at the conference the same question. The result is ten videos: Eckhard Rotte, Andy Budd,…

What’s Design Mean to You? Interview with Julian Bleecker

Jul. 5, 2008 in design, interview, video

A while back I asked here on the blog “What’s Design Mean to You?” Just before reboot I had the idea to ask the smart people at the conference the same question. The result is ten videos: Eckhard Rotte, Andy Budd,…

What’s Design Mean to You? Interview with Andy Budd

Jul. 3, 2008 in design, interview, video

A while back I asked here on the blog “What’s Design Mean to You?” Just before reboot I had the idea to ask the smart people at the conference the same question. The result is ten videos: Eckhard Rotte, Andy Budd,…

What’s Design Mean to You? Interview with Eckhard Rotte

Jul. 2, 2008 in design, interview, video

A while back I asked here on the blog “What’s Design Mean to You?” Just before reboot I had the idea to ask the smart people at the conference the same question. The result is ten videos: Eckhard Rotte, Andy Budd,…

Designing the Message

Jul. 2, 2008 in design, process

Just before Stowe Boyd asked me to blog on /message last week, he sent me this tweet:

hey bro. Nice Tumblr template. I am interested in a reworking of my /Message typepad stuff. Ideas? Costs?

Stowe and I met, very briefly, last year at…

What’s “Design” Mean to You?

Jun. 4, 2008 in design

Leisa Reichelt calls herself a designer. Stowe Boyd calls himself a designer, too. Ryan Singer says he’s also a designer. Zeldman talks about design all the time.

I don’t mean to suggest for even a second that Leisa, Stowe, Ryan and Jeffrey aren’t designers. They’re just…

Crowdspring. Throw Your Design Away.

Jun. 4, 2008 in business, design, web too oh!

Haven’t heard of crowdspring yet? They call themselves a “Global marketplace for logo design, business card design, graphic design and website design”. It works like this: if you need a logo for your startup you post a brief on the site,…

Linkbag of Stuff That Works

Jun. 3, 2008 in design, linkage, podcasts, process

Ryan Singer at RailsConf

The most enthusiastic, positive, funny web-guy I know was interviewed at RailsConf about the being a designer who can write code, and “touching the magic wand”, which isn’t nearly as pornographic as it sounds. Have a listen.

And…

Does Web Design Have a Future?

May. 29, 2008 in design

Mathew (with one “t”) Patterson wrote a thoughtful post called “A new mind for web designers?”. In it he poses and tries to answer these questions:

How do web designers fit into this new world? When the html and CSS can…