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.

design.

The Big Noob

Sunday, May 13, 2007 06: 56 PM

It's good to have you back. It's good to have you back. Let's celebrate the triumphant return of The Big Noob.

Click, Reward.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007 01: 37 AM

"Always make the juice worth the squeeze." (src. Guiding Principles of Interaction Design, Volume 8 Chapter 32.)

Minty

Sunday, January 28, 2007 10: 42 PM

Shaun Inman's all Minty.

PDF Mags

Sunday, January 28, 2007 10: 24 PM

pdf-mags.com. Starting to pull together links to some of those great PDF zines out there...(src. Greg @ Airbag)

Travel-time Maps

Friday, May 26, 2006 07: 10 PM

Travel-time Maps

Travel-time Maps. Originally uploaded by NIXON*NOW.

"These are much more complicated questions than those about individual journeys, but one thing they all have in common is transport: can I get to and from the places I'm considering quickly and easily?"

The maps on this page show one way of answering that question. Using colours and contour lines they show how long it takes to travel between one particular place and every other place in the area, using public transport. They also show the areas from which no such journey is possible, because the services are not good enough."

Via "Travel-time Maps and their Uses" on mySociety

Great combition of visual effect and usefulness. (Src. Boing Boing)

Let's See Your Tag Graph

Friday, May 26, 2006 04: 13 PM

NIXON*NOW as Tag Graph

NIXON*NOW as Tag Graph. Originally uploaded by NIXON*NOW.

HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph. I've written a little app that visualizes such a graph, and here are some screenshots of websites that I often look at.

Via Aharef with many examples. Drop in any URL at the Websites as Graphs applet. (Src. Cameron Moll)

The Sheep Market

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 11: 12 AM

The Sheep Market

The Sheep Market. Originally uploaded by NIXON*NOW.

Thousands of workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk webservice were paid two cents to "draw a sheep facing to the left." Their sheep drawings were collected and printed on collectable stamps. The stamps, as well as animations of their drawing process, were shown at the "Lost in Border" exhibition in the New Wight Gallery at UCLA.



The project continues at www.TheSheepMarket.com.



Interesting project created by Aaron Koblin and thousands of mouse toting "artists" — there is a mind-numbing 10,000 sheep on the site. The Sheep Market project site. (Src. we make money not art and information aesthetics)

Cervélo Cycles on R&D vs. Ads.

Monday, May 22, 2006 04: 29 PM

This relentless pursuit of excellence will continue to remain our focus. We figured that each time we go to the windtunnel it cost us about $25,000. It might make more sense to spend that same amount of money on ads and marketing, but that won’t get you a better bike. We apologize in advance if our ads look like they were written by engineers. We figured you would rather read an ad designed by an engineer than ride a bike designed by the marketing department.

- Cervélo Cycles About Page

The proof is in the pudding. Team CSC rider Ivan Basso is riding away with the Giro d'Italia (W) right now on a Cervélo.*

* Great bikes indeed -- but it also helps when you're Italian and promise your mother just before she died of cancer that you will one day win the premier road cycling race of their homeland -- with motivation like that, Basso could probably win the race on a beach cruiser...Cervélo beach cruiser of course.

NIXON*NOW v14 - Less Noise.

Thursday, May 18, 2006 02: 37 PM

If anyone can recommend a good design psychologist that can help explain why I have to keep blowing up my site, then please do. In the meantime NIXON*NOW v.14 is live — bringing back a little bit of that chronological column flavor from NiXLOG v.12. As an individual and designer this year has personally been themed around creating two things: less noise and more focus. I'll start here.

Update: Feel free to leave comments on Flickr.

NiXLOG 2000-2006 Redesigns

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 03: 21 PM

I absolutely suck at archiving my past site designs. So last night I fired up Wayback Machine at Archive.org, Paparazzi and Flickr to document all 13 iterations of NiXLOG / NiXON*NOW since 2000. I'm beginning to wonder if I was unemployed most of that time -- because that is a whole lotta redesigning kids. So sad. (You might have to go full-size to really see some of them - didn't have the energy to crop at three in the morning. And some of styling was killed by the Wayback Machine. Such is life.)

SXSW Design Eye for the List Guy

Monday, March 13, 2006 01: 37 PM

Our SXSW panel Design Eye for the List Guy is this evening at 5. I'll be posting links to the finished work after the show. Should be fun. Our "List Guy" may even be in the audience...

UPDATE:

Please note: This redesign panel at SXSW was an independent "exercise" in redesigning craigslist - something this panel does every year by choosing a different website to redesign. Some are under the impression that this design has been implemented in some cities. This is not the case. craigslist did not commission this exercise. Nor is there any implication that this design ever would be adopted by craigslist. This redesign exercise was done by a panel of independent designers with no input from or collaboration with craigslist. Thanks.

SXSW 2006

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 04: 31 PM

It's that time. SXSW 2006. Austin, Texas. Oh the memories. It's going to be another great gathering. I'm excited to be a part of the Design Eye panel again this year: Design Eye for the List Guy with Keith Robinson, Cameron Moll, Ryan Sims, Andrei Herasimchuk. It should be a fun hour - come join us Monday at 5:00 pm!

A few ways to reach me out in Austin:

  • paulnixon@gmail.com
  • 650/796/5694
  • AOL IM: azcyclist247
  • LinkedIn Page

Fun Chop

Wednesday, May 18, 2005 10: 54 AM

Fun Chop. The Chopstick Helper.

Recommended Solo Acts

Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12: 55 PM

First Greg...now Cameron. Some great freelance talent at your finger tips. Highly recommended. Give them your business...

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.

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.

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.

March Trendwatching Newsletter

Tuesday, February 22, 2005 08: 40 AM

March 2005 Trendwatching newsletter. Interesting coverage on niche marketing.

UA Redesign Blog

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 08: 39 AM

On a work related note, we are blogging the last half of the redesign process at the University of Arizona. Thursday we are pulling off a full day gathering of the 20 plus people who have helped on the redesign thus far. We'll be reviewing architecture decisions, wireframes, project status, next steps -- and I will also be presenting design options.

After that, I will then proceed to sleep for a full day. Glad the first round of designs are done.

On a slightly related note, check out the website history at UA. Great snapshot of how things have changed over the years at a large institution.

Design Eye Panel at SXSW

Monday, February 14, 2005 11: 03 AM

Just when life couldn't get any better (or crazier) I get invited to join some very talented designers on the "Design Eye For The Idea Guy" panel at SXSW (south by southwest) in Austin next month.

Unfortunately Greg Storey (the magician) can't make it, so I've been asked to fill in. Check out DKR's announcement for more details on the presentation.

Here is the rest of Design Fab Five panel: Andrei Herasimchuk, D. Keith Robinson, Cameron Moll and Ryan Sims. There is a lot of talent wrapped up in this group, so you know it's going to be good.

It's also going to be fun, not only being on the panel, but also meeting all the great designers, writers and thinkers that you only know by name (real or domain)...

Art's Last, Lonely Cowboy

Sunday, February 6, 2005 01: 02 AM

Art's Last, Lonely Cowboy. Today's featured NY Times Magagzine article (reg. req'd). Some interesting Sunday reading. If you're tired of reading, then at least check out the audio slideshow by the author, which is a really well done piece as well.

Just seeing the image of Heizer's latest sculpture (which is a mile long, quarter mile wide) in it's stark Nevada setting is amazing. I wonder what civilization will hypothesize it is a thousand years from now...

White Noise

Thursday, February 3, 2005 10: 23 AM

I've spent the past few minutes trying to do a simple thing -- listen to music on my computer at work. Unfortunately my music is being mashed-up by at least two other websites that insist on pumping out ethereal background music (noise?) to add ambience to their design. This wouldn't be a problem if I only had a few windows open, but currently I have 50+ tabs open in a few different Firefox windows.

...Read More.

50+ tabs you ask? Why yes 50+, see I use Firefox with the Session Saver extension. It has become an integral part of how I work, both professionally and personally. I visit a ton of design sites each day -- often CTRL clicking (Command click on Mac) on links from these sites to open the new links in the background. Sometimes I've opened 20 tabs in the background from a single design site. I'm opening them to review throughout the day as time allows. If I don't get to them today, they will be there tomorrow thanks to Session Saver (it automatically opens all the tabs you had up when you last closed Firefox).

SO...here is where my problems begin...when I start the day with 20-50 tabs automatically opening in Firefox and a couple of them are playing background music, I have to go hunt down those sites, find the "Music: On / Off" option (which can be a challenge in and of itself) and turn it off. This, my friends, can annoy me to no end.

While I appreciate the creativity behind this type of “immersive” experience, I find myself constantly annoyed by it. Maybe I'm in the minority here? But typically the music does little to add to my experience -- in fact it usually makes finding the "On / Off" switch my first order of business on the site-- instead of appreciating the design and digging into what they have to offer.

Revenge of the Right Brains

Monday, January 31, 2005 12: 34 AM

Revenge of the Right Brain. Interesting new Wired article adapted from author Dan Pink's forthcoming book A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. Dan believes the next great age will belong to the right brainers -- the creatives, the visionaries. Should be another fun ride.

Getting Unstuck

Monday, January 17, 2005 04: 28 PM

Dave at Mezzoblue on Getting Unstuck. "Four tips for getting yourself out of a design jam." Some good recommendations in the comments too.

Logo competition at Airbag

Friday, January 14, 2005 12: 42 AM

Create logo. Win contest. Enjoy new iPod. Greg is a hosting a logo design comptetition for his friend Mike of LedgerPaper. Go forth and design...

ROK Financial Website

Monday, January 10, 2005 04: 41 AM

Projects on really short deadlines always end like this...posting at 5 a.m...numb from the endless night. But it was worth it...ROK Financial is born. Designed, built and launched within a day.

This project is for a new tax return business that my wife Rebecca and Kenneth (a very sharp brother-in-law) are creating. They are backing up the whole thing with the good technology, top-notch software, etc.

This past week we've created a logo, printed business cards and marketing materials, registered the company, filed the necessary paperwork, surveyed and purchased the best tax software and laptops, and now launched a website. Amazing how fast a few determined people can "create" a company.

If you are in Arizona, Utah or just about anywhere and want your taxes done for less than those most other places -- let me know.

As always, my projects have little to do with my own talent, but rather stand upon the shoulders of those who have done the heavy lifting. Many thanks to those who maintain the following resources:

Saturns? Really? Nice.

Saturday, January 8, 2005 12: 05 AM

Choose your flavor: Roadster or sedan. Saturn shows off two aggressive and sporty concepts. And just like that, Saturn becomes a much more interesting brand.

NYTimes.com Redesign In The Works

Thursday, January 6, 2005 01: 44 AM

NYTimes.com Redesign in the works. RSS, search engines and direct linking to articles among many reasons for the redesign. Seems the design of subpages will become more vital. More here. Via Poynter.

From Editor & Publisher Article:

"We haven't redesigned the site in more than three years," says Leonard Apcar, the site's editor in chief. "In that time there have been a lot of changes in the way people come to The New York Times on the Web. For instance, a good percentage of our readers are not seeing the homepage; they are coming in because of search engines or RSS feeds, any number of avenues — our own e-mails, other links. They're coming in to an article page. Once they get to an article page, we need to redesign how else you engage the site and travel through it."


From WebProNews.com:

Glenn Kramon, Associate Managing Editor for Career Development, is notable because it shows how the online news environment has changed and how big media recognizes the need to adapt...

"Next year, the site will embark on its first redesign in four years in an Internet environment that has changed dramatically. Back then there were no Google News or RSS feeds, or even much broadband outside the workplace. Also, video's time on the Web hadn't really arrived. The growth of new technologies like Google News and RSS represent major challenges and opportunities for our storytelling. How we respond will be critical for the long-term health of NYTimes.com."

Designer's Holy Triangle

Wednesday, January 5, 2005 02: 05 AM

The Designer's Holy Triangle: Good, Fast and Cheap. Such wisdom hath mine ears rarely heard.

NiXLOG Redesign Notes

Tuesday, January 4, 2005 01: 32 PM

NiXLOG Redesign Notes.

Please Note: This design is a work in progress. Many of the subpages and archives still need new dark brown wrapper and layout. View the homepage to see what this post describes.

Please send any comments, rants or suggestions to nix (@) nixlog (.) com

Quick overview: I'm not shooting for the most usable, super-validating, mega-standards compliant site around -- there are plenty of those out there. What I am trying to create is something simple, but very different. Something that challenges the norm. For better or worse. Something I can learn from.

The Pain: As mentioned in an earlier post - Greg's recent call for more innovation in the weblog/web design community really hit home. Although he wasn't talking purely about weblog design, it was like hearing a doctor diagnose that pain that has been bugging you for some time, but you assumed there was no cure and just learned to live with it.

Over the past year I've grown frustrated with many things in the weblog/web design world, including:


  • 3-column CSS layouts

  • Limitations of 800x600 design

  • Cookie cutter feel of most blogs

  • My own site designs within the 3-column limitation.

  • The general lack of information/examples of CSS design beyond 3-columns. Yeah, there's some 4-column stuff, but not much.


NiXLOG went through 2 or 3 redesigns in 2004 -- I was grasping for something, anything to make me feel like my site was had something unique to offer -- while still providing blog content and functionality. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a single column of blog posts in chronological order -- it is the meat and potatoes of the blog world, it will always be with us...but I was tired of dinner. I wanted dessert.

The Cure: As I thought about blog design more, the idea of showing the posts horizontally by date, much like a weekly calendar, kept popping up in my head. I had seen lots of horizontal scrolling sites, but I didn't recall seeing a horizontal blog site organized by date like this (I'm sure I'm not the first to create this...surely there are several out there -- I just don't recall seeing any.) I played with the idea a bit early last year, making several sketches, laying out some ideas in Photoshop, but was still too green with CSS layouts and wasn't yet experimenting with Movable Type plug-ins. Yet the idea wouldn't leave my head. I even went so far as setting up Movable Type to automatically create horizontal tables with each new post and it worked (see example), but I wanted a CSS layout. Then came Greg's post. I knew it was time.

What I love about this experiment so far:


  • It's different. CSS design with 6-columns (1 nav, 5 content) -- who wants 3 when you can have 6? Different enough to discuss the merits, advantages and disadvantages of such a design and see where it takes my thinking.

  • Creates a mental pause. I love the fact that design forces you to stop, take notice and get oriented with the blog, unlike most vertical designs that seem too familiar on the first visit.
  • Future ready -- today! Most mainstream designers do not design for Netscape 4.7, the browser is dated and the user base shrinking daily. The same might be said someday for 800x600 monitors. Yes, there will "always" be some users (especially as the baby-boomers age and eye sight goes), but five years from now I think 1024x will be the new minimum standard. The time to enter the 1024x age is close at hand. Why not start experimenting with blog designs now? Web stats showing steady decline of 800x600.
  • Visual snapshot. As soon as NiXLOG loads you have an immediate context for how much information has been posted the past five days. You don't usually get that with vertical blogs without scrolling past the new posts to the last one you remember reading. You also see the days when I've posted nothing -- to me this is a great motivator to find good content. I don't want blank days on my site.

  • What's old is new. We've seen weekly calendars for years, all designed around dates to be filled with content. For NiXLOG I really wanted to present a "weekly calendar" view of posts (only flipped, with the newest of the left, oldest on the right). Plus, Horizontal is the new Vertical. I love landscape oriented design

What I'm not worried about just yet:


  • Standards/Validation. This is an ongoing experiment - with a lot tweaking, fine-tuning, etc. Validation, standards, etc. are coming with time. I just wanted to get a working version out there to see what the possibilities are.

  • Printing. Not sure people print my site, but going to be working on a print-friendly style sheet sometime.

  • 800x600 users. See below.

  • CSS. My CSS is probably terrible by most pros standards, but such is life. As I learn I apply and tweak. I'm not afraid to put it out there -- what's the worse that can happen? Yep, you'll suggest improvements and that will make me even better.

Some challenges:


  • 1040x Design. Most readers of NiXLOG are on higher resolution monitors. Still, there's no reason I can't have an 800x600 CSS switcher for those that would prefer it. It's in the works (4-column, showing three days). The other thing the design requires is that users have their web browser maximized to take it all in and prevent a horizontal scroll bar from appearing. Still usable with the bar though.

  • Style sheet off. Turn off the style sheet and all the content is there, but because of the way the columns are structured, the dates are not ordered correctly. Working on that.

  • Other typical usability, standards issues when going with a funky new design. Making a list.

  • Content space. When you play with 6-columns within a 1000 pixel width, you have to limit the width of each column. I wanted two things with this design: 1) vertical nav and 2) 5 days in view. These requirements forced me to go a little narrow on the content column for each day (150px), but I really liked how the layout turned out.

Inspiration for my design:

Tools in Use:


  • Moveable Type 3.0

  • Somedays (Movable Type Plug-in): Used to -1, -2, -3 dates to grab yesterday, day before yesterday, etc.

  • A Movable Type plug-in that allows you to run a cron job at a specific time to republish a template. The homepage republishes just after midnight, loading up the next days blank date.

  • Cron jobs (via Dreamhost account)

  • CSS Trial and Error (Patented process I have for trying a lot of things, dissecting other people's code, shedding some tears and losing hair because I never stopped to learn the fundamentals.)

The 6 Myths of Creativity

Tuesday, January 4, 2005 04: 47 AM

The 6 Myths of Creativity. Good read from December issue of Fast Company.

The Car Blog

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11: 36 PM

The Car Blog launches. Design Case. Business Case. Design. Via whitespace.

ABC News Redesign

Monday, October 11, 2004 04: 24 PM

Behind the ABC News redesign. Design. Via Airbag

Skinning Gmail With Custom Stylesheet

Friday, October 8, 2004 12: 23 PM

Skinning Gmail With Custom Stylesheet Technology. Design. Fun with Firefox and Gmail. Via del.icio.us

Color Schemer Studio OSX

Thursday, October 7, 2004 10: 50 PM

Color Schemer Studio OSX Design. I just fell hard for this little shareware app for brainstorming color palettes. Via Airbag.

An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design

Tuesday, October 5, 2004 04: 44 PM

An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design from 37signals Design. Via del.icio.us

WPS1 Art Radio

Monday, October 4, 2004 04: 23 PM

WPS1 Art Radio Design. "WPS1 presents a daily, 24-hour stream of music, talk and historic spoken-word programs focusing on contemporary art, music and literature from around the world." Via Oct/Nov issue of Dwell Magazine

Bullet Madness ★ free bullets project at stylegala.com - a fine css resource

Friday, October 1, 2004 01: 54 AM

Bullet Madness - free bullets project Design. "Download 200 free bullets at Bullet Madness". Via Giant Ant.

Design: Bugaboo Frog Stroller

Monday, May 17, 2004 10: 37 AM

Bugaboo Frog Stroller

Design: Chunc Wheelchairs

Monday, May 17, 2004 10: 15 AM

Chunc Wheelchairs (src).

Design: FedEx Rebrands Kinko's

Monday, April 26, 2004 06: 29 PM

FedEx Rebrands Kinko's

Design: Redesigned White House Brief

Monday, April 12, 2004 06: 52 PM

Brilliant redesign of the White House Brief

Design: 28mm March 2004

Thursday, March 18, 2004 12: 56 AM

28mm: March 2004 issue now online

Design: Defensive Design For The Web

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11: 33 AM

Defensive Design For The Web - 37signals

Design: Paper Toys

Monday, March 15, 2004 02: 57 PM

Paper Toys (src)

Design: Airbag

Sunday, March 14, 2004 12: 37 PM

Airbag: Above The Rest

Design: Rasterbator

Thursday, March 11, 2004 09: 22 AM

Rasterbator

Design: White Space Feb Comp

Monday, March 8, 2004 03: 05 PM

Version 2 Competition. February: Project Gutenberg

Design: Creative Behavior

Saturday, March 6, 2004 01: 43 AM

Creative Behavior, Issue 2 (src)

Design: Small and Round

Thursday, March 4, 2004 11: 10 AM

Small and Round (src)

Design: Camouflage Issue 3

Thursday, March 4, 2004 11: 03 AM

Camouflage Zine, Issue 3 (src)

Design: Young Talents

Wednesday, March 3, 2004 01: 44 PM

Young Talents (src)

Design: Arniegeddon

Wednesday, March 3, 2004 01: 43 PM

Arniegeddon (src)

Design: Global ID Card Competition

Wednesday, March 3, 2004 10: 20 AM

Global I.D. Card Competition Results - I.D. Magazine (src)

Design: Byrdhouse Review

Tuesday, March 2, 2004 09: 44 AM

Byrdhouse Review

Design: Nike's Foldable Shoes

Tuesday, March 2, 2004 09: 43 AM

Nike's Foldable Shoes (src)

Design: ColorMatch / QuickColor

Friday, February 27, 2004 11: 09 AM

Color Match / QuickColor (src)

Design: Medium Footwear

Thursday, February 26, 2004 04: 49 PM

Medium Footwear

Design: Ben Frost

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 05: 08 PM

Ben Frost (src)

Design: Dual

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11: 05 AM

Dual

Design: Stephen Bliss

Friday, February 6, 2004 05: 07 PM

Stephen Bliss

Design: Robot Johnny

Friday, February 6, 2004 05: 01 PM

Robot Johnny

Design: Tycho Music

Friday, February 6, 2004 04: 59 PM

Tycho Music

Design: ISO50

Friday, February 6, 2004 04: 58 PM

ISO50

Design: Pixie

Monday, November 10, 2003 03: 47 PM

Pixie (for Windows): "Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour."

design: why not

Wednesday, November 5, 2003 01: 31 PM

why not : Lots of good ideas. The amazing thing here lies not in having a good place to find those "why didn't I think of that" ideas BEFORE they become actual products and services, but actually getting those ideas out in the open and then let the free market take them and run.

Smart entreprenuers will not only make this one of their hunting grounds for new ideas, but also use it as a testing ground for ideas just about to launch (poor man's market validation). However, I wonder how long it is before it is spoiled by those marketers and spammers looking to push their truly non-innovative products by talking them up first and then "miraculously" finding a company that offers a solution to the problem and posting it in the comments. (Update: whynot.net acknowledges that they were inspired by halfbakery.com)

Design: gigposters.com

Tuesday, October 28, 2003 01: 59 PM

gigposters.com

Design: A List Apart Redesign

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11: 30 AM

A List Apart Relaunches

Design: Ebay redesigns

Thursday, October 9, 2003 02: 51 PM

eBay Redesigns : Task/process approach. (Enter page as unregistered user to see redesign.)

Redesign Complete @ CGCC

Thursday, August 14, 2003 10: 35 AM

Redesign Complete @ CGCC : The redesign is complete and we've relaunched the new website at work: Chandler-Gilbert Community College. Phew. It was a fun 6 months with a lot of brainstorming, sifting and work. I am very, very pleased. It is amazing to see your work affect a website consisting of close to 1000 web pages. Our system is now completely template driven (server-side includes, css). We can update the entire website with a new design in less than an hour. We've also integrated marketing much more tightly. It is, quite simply, one of the most consistant college websites I've seen. Read more about the changes to the site design I posted here: CGCC Website.

watchblog

Monday, June 16, 2003 05: 23 PM

Watchblog : Cameron (camworld) just rolled out Watchblog. 3 political parties, tons of editors and one election for President (2004). From a design perspective, I was excited to see a 3 column/3 blog approach...very interesting format. Looking forward to it's evolution and acceptance as a design approach.

Fonticate

Thursday, May 22, 2003 12: 31 PM

Fonticate : Small little app for viewing all the fonts on your system. You can type in text and see how it looks in each font. It's fast and saves bucco amounts of time when searching for just the right font for that one special project that you're never going to get done anyways.

Prometheus Spawning Grounds (PSG)

Thursday, May 22, 2003 10: 24 AM

Prometheus Spawning Grounds (PSG) : So, what did I do with my youth? Certainly A. Niklas Jansson spent his developing some serious talent. There is some incredible work here. Mechs. Robots. Manga. Aliens. You name it, he's drawn it. Some simple, interesting tutorials as well. Plus he provides a ton of links to other sites of similiar interest. (via the immutable k10k)

Epitaph Records

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 05: 48 PM

Epitaph Records : Lot of stuff going on here, but I just like this site. Be sure and check out the band Motion City Soundtrack. Saw them a few weeks ago in Tempe...talented group of fellas. First album in June.

fuse.tv

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 05: 27 PM

fuse.tv : formerly Much Music TV. It's now Fuse TV throwin da funk down on da web baby.

Sonic Boom

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 09: 47 AM

Sonic Boom : Interactive agency from Canada. Love the transitions.

American Design Awards

Tuesday, May 20, 2003 06: 28 PM

American Design Awards

NinjaCruise

Tuesday, May 20, 2003 06: 23 PM

NinjaCruise (via halfproject)

doubleoc

Tuesday, May 20, 2003 06: 21 PM

doubleoc (via halfproject)

imagefed

Tuesday, May 20, 2003 06: 19 PM

imagefed (via halfproject)

Block Illustration

Tuesday, May 20, 2003 05: 56 PM

Block Illustration

Andrew Wilson Design

Tuesday, May 20, 2003 05: 55 PM

Andrew Wilson Design

Betty Blowtorch

Tuesday, May 20, 2003 05: 54 PM

Betty Blowtorch

Design: Doghouse Records

Tuesday, April 29, 2003 10: 36 AM

Doghouse Records

Design: VW DriverGear

Tuesday, April 8, 2003 03: 47 PM

VW DriverGear

Design: Leonardo da Vinci

Friday, April 4, 2003 04: 53 PM

Leonardo da Vinci (Met Museum, via kottke.org)

UPS.com Redesign Preview

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 02: 22 PM

UPS.com Redesign Preview

New UPS Logo (Adweek, via k10k)

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 01: 57 PM

New UPS Logo (Adweek, via k10k)

K10K

Monday, March 24, 2003 08: 34 PM

K10K