University of Arizona c.1909
Friday, March 25, 2005 04: 10 AM
Hi. I'm Paul Nixon, a designer living in Mountain View California. My days (and some nights) are spent designing websites for a little company in Cupertino. The rest of my time is spent with my beautiful wife and friends, road cycing and reading your blogs.
March 2005
Practical Typeface Selection
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12: 36 AM
The non-typographer’s guide to practical typeface selection. Cameron's SXSW Design Eye magic continues.
Hire Rebecca
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12: 25 AM
So the next order of business with moving to Cupertino/Silicon Valley is to find Rebecca (my wife) a job in the area. I am going to abuse this blog to that end.
Currently Rebecca is a branch manager with Compass Bank in Tucson with previous credit union management experience from our Phoenix days. She also has a degree in Accounting.
If you are in the banking, hr or corporate training world in Silicon Valley and want to hire a rockstar -- let me know and I'll send her resume your way. She has shined in every company she has worked for thus far...and she will shine in yours too.
Where's Durstan?
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12: 06 AM
'Where's Durstan?' has gotten out of control. And I love it.
But really -- where is he? Let's pull him up on Flickr Vision GPS™*: Looks like we have a recent sighting at C|Net's offices.
* Flickr Vision GPS is, of course, fictional and does not exist. But we know Durstan does... somewhere...
A New Job
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11: 13 AM
The past couple of months have probably been the most exciting of my life -- a surreal blur of events that have opened some incredible doors. With great excitement, I now step through one. This is a note to let people know that I will be joining the web team at Apple soon and I couldn't be more happy.
"California...here we come..."
Wired Infoporn By Paul Nixon
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10: 02 AM
If you have a chance, check out (and buy) the latest April 2005 issue of Wired on newstands (with "Go Hybrid!" on the cover). On page 40 you'll see my infographic contribution to the magazine -- an Infoporn called "The Outsourcing Myth". Enjoy!
A History Of Communications
Sunday, March 20, 2005 11: 06 PM
Yahoo Acquires Flickr
Sunday, March 20, 2005 05: 37 PM
Yahoo Acquires Flickr. Take care of her Yahoo -- she's one baby that deserves a bright future...
A Class Act: Cameron Moll
Friday, March 18, 2005 07: 39 AM
Cameron Moll steps up to the Digital Web Magazine plate for this interview.
If you've never had the opportunity to meet or interact with Cameron, you are truly missing out on one the classiest people in web design -- SXSW bore that out to me. The above interview will prove it to you. And to Cameron, thank you for the time in Austin and for your kind words in the interview.
Design Eye For The Idea Guy
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12: 06 PM
Here is the completed site from our Design Eye For The Idea Guy panel at SXSW. Also check out the breakdown from individual team members.
Contactlink
Monday, March 14, 2005 01: 53 PM
Just wanted to mention Contactlink today. In it's purest form it is a service the helps people be found and reachable through search engines based on keywords they define. It's a project I spent a lot of free time on to help to define the features, functionality, etc. It's still in beta (rough) -- so let us know if you have any feedback.
In the online world, it's fairly easy to get your blog or design site in Google (or any search engine), where people can find "you" and contact you. But what about my mom? My dad? What about the millions of people who do not have a web presence and have no desire to have one? How do they take advantage of the web to be found by people they've lost touch with? The answers to these questions are what really attracted me to this project.
This is my Contactlink door page. On it you will find keywords that help people find me in search engines -- including references to high school, past jobs, old contact information etc. Here is a Google search on my name and high school. My Contactlink page would put people directly in contact with me -- even without NiXLOG, etc. I personally find the whole concept interesting and of value, even if you are only found by that one, long lost friend. That could be the person that changes your life.
The Big Noob
Sunday, March 13, 2005 04: 37 PM
Ryan, Brad and the team at Neubix Studios give us The Big Noob -- their alter egos revealed. High on style, while taking you behind the scenes at a great design studio with blogs and personal profiles (interests, flickr, fav music, etc.)
This site is exactly what gives small, talented outfits like Neubix an authentic way to express their own voice and provide value to their sure to be growing audience. The timing couldn't be better, considering a very relevant discussion at SXSW about branding and business blogs -- Nuebix "gets it".
Elsakawai.com
Saturday, March 12, 2005 05: 39 PM
Just met an incredibly talented artist/designer at SXSW -- if you haven't met her yet, meet Elsa from Malaysia.
SXSW (Day 1)
Saturday, March 12, 2005 02: 36 PM
So if you go to SXSW you are supposed to post about it, right? So here I am. At SXSW. This is my post about it. I see people. I see computers. I see lots of smart people. A few lost people (like myself). All in all it looks like it is going to be a good time.
The funniest thing so far was Kottke sitting by the wall literally surrounded by what seems to be some impenetrable blogging posse. I was going to say hi and give him some money for his cause, but I couldn't see a way to get past all the bodies sitting around him. Only proves you can become a blogging rockstar. I'll catch him another time.
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