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.

thinking.

Sacrifice

Friday, January 26, 2007 03: 03 AM

Sacrifice: Noun. An act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy.

Creativity

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11: 28 PM

Creativity is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. (src. Wikipedia)

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Wednesday, March 2, 2005 09: 45 PM

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Design Something New Today.

Friday, February 11, 2005 02: 05 AM

Design something new today. Anything. What better day to find a blank sheet of paper, a pen and a quiet moment to create that which the world has not seen.

Milking The Superbowl Ad Machine

Monday, February 7, 2005 02: 50 PM

I wonder, if in some weird, near future, it will be more buzzworthy as a company to intentially have your Superbowl ad "pulled" at the last moment by a major network, rather than have it actually play. As a consumer, I'm admittedly more interested in the commercials that get pulled versus the ones that are actually shown...

I can see it now: Television advertising exec. to Company XYZ, "So that will be $2.4 million to run the 30 second spot or $3.5 million for us to 'pull' it two days before the game and send out a press release pointing back to your website where you can broadcast the 'too edgy for T.V.' commercial for all to see...then all those blog people...bloggerites...or whatever they are called will shower you with links and people will think you're even more 'hip' than just having a regular old commercial in the Superbowl. The kids love that kind of stuff..."

Or Company XYZ could simply make a commercial knowing that it will explicitly be denied by a network and then get on a soap box, promote the whole scandalous denial and milk it for some attention.

Maybe all this is happening and I'm just not paying attention enough to the media...

Another Iron In The Fire

Friday, January 21, 2005 06: 38 PM

Throwing another iron in the fire because I'm obsessed with too many things. The focus of my obsession this time: Infographics. The iron: Infographica: Where Seeing Is Understanding.

Just a splash page now -- but I hope to develop it in the total lack of spare time I have in the next few weeks (i.e. late at night on weekends). NiXLOG as been a good home for linking to infographics, but based on the search engine traffic and a steady demand for infographics links, I think it is worthy of a seperate web project. Plus, I have one more free blog in Moveable Type -- might as well use it...read more...

Currently typing "infographics" in Google results in NiXLOG at the top. This is the result from consistantly linking to infographics since creating the September 11th Collection over three years ago. The recent popularity of the Apple's Tipping Point infographic I created confirmed to me that there is, at least, a general interest in the design world for inspiring content like this. Tufte's work and popularity further confirm this belief.

Over time I would like to build-up Infographica to take over that top spot at Google, as well as "information graphics" top spot, by providing the most valuable and dedicated resource to Infographics out there. I think it will become an inspiring resource not only for information graphic designers, but also designers across the board, newspaper and magazine professionals and, of course, Jason Kottke -- who always manages to dig up infographics from obscure places. It will also be a home for firms and freelance infographic artists to be found. And, heck, throw in some tutorials...etc...then eventually write a book...and...then...

...anyways, enough talking to myself about my ideas, we'll see out it goes...

Fire back thoughts, make suggestions or predict my utter failure in the comments below.

Why do I...

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 05: 14 AM

Why do I put myself through these redesigns.

You don't need...

Monday, March 24, 2003 09: 55 PM

You don't need a vehicle the size of a house.