Archive for August, 2007
Portfolio revamping and Poetic Terrorism
Posted by Emily | Filed under Portfolio, design, poetic terrorism
My portfolio is currently undergoing major construction. If all goes well it will be launched sometime early next week. Revamp checklist:
- Remove funky, outdated code and update appropriately
- Remove untouched 6 year old websites from my portfolio
- Possibly create a new design altogether
Thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Also, I recently launched this one page experimental website:
The site is based on the essay The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchy by Hakim Bey, and right now consists of one page with the excerpt. Within two weeks it succeeded being one of the top Google listings for ‘poetic terrorism’, but I’ll eventually have it branch out to contain much more info. My hopes are to create a site in which people will submit their own stories of acts of poetic terrorism, or submit artwork, similar to this recent photoshop creation of mine:
Unless you have superhuman powers, chances are you cannot read the text in the graphic above. View the enlarged version here!Â
David Carson
Posted by Emily | Filed under design, inspiration, opinion
As much as I love David Carson (my favorite graphic designer), his website seems like it could use a lot of help.
An Event Apart, some links
Posted by Emily | Filed under alistapart, conferences, design, resources, webdev
Back in March I attended An Event Apart, Boston at the Boston Marriott Copley, and was priviliged to see such great speakers as Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer, Molly Holzschlag, and… the list goes on. I was also surprised to see that the majority of the web developers, designers, and tech geeks there used Macs and not PCs. Go figure!
Here is a list of links I compiled (aka scribbled in the back of my notebook) throughout the conference, for your viewing pleasure:
- Microformats - “Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.”
- Yahoo! Developer Network
- WebTypography.net - The elements of typographic style, applied to the web
- Position Is Everything - Info on CSS bugs, behaviors, and table-less layouts
- Firebug - A great Firefox add on for web developers
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