I have a running collection of every business card I have ever had (for me that is), and my latest ones seemed fun enough to share here. They are my handy work (sans the scripty font etc which was hand tweaked by my friend Ben). My new personal, two sided, exhaustive contact list: The next ones are from a new venture I am working on called Bit Miners : :...
I know, you don't really care all that much if I take a look at your site. Except that I might feature it on my blog , or in a .net article , or in my upcoming book on web design . So I am sure you don't care to much what I have to say. Ok, so I am feeling a bit frustrated right now, and I have a lot of thoughts that seem obvious, but apparently aren't. My thoughts below flow from the mountain of sites I sift through. Dozens per day for DMD and now I have a pool amassing for the next book. It brings up some things that make me click the little X faster then you can auto complete your code. So,...
If missed out on getting into my first book, you might be happy to know that my second one is in the works and I am currently taking submissions. If you would like to see one of your sites, or a site you built featured please take a minute and send it my way. It is of course free to do. The deadline is May 31st, so head on over and submit your site before you procrastonate and forget! Submit your site now >>
One of the things I have been asked countless times over the years is how to use inspiration and showcase sites to come up with a fresh design with out simply copying someone elses design. At its core I have always seen one thing, that is either your a person inclinced to copy designs, a person inclinced to seek as little inspiration as possible from others for fear of copying, or your the type that pulls ideas from many sources into a single fresh new design. It is this third type of person that Design Meltdown is geared towards. For me there has always been a power in seeing how others have done...
Yeah, I must admit I am obsessed with watching my books sales rank on Amazon. I can't resist pointing out my all time high of #684 on amazon.co.uk . The highest I saw it get on amazon.com was around 740. At least I haven't paid for one of the amazon rank watching services, though I wish someone would point me to a free one....
I continue to be blown away by how popular my book continues to be. I was looking at the How Bookstore and was delighted to see I am in their top 10 books for 2008 . Considering the book hit shelves in October that certainly doesn't seem inconsequential. I guess this explains why they are interested in doing a follow up (more on that soon)....
Yeah I know, this post is over a year late...but better late then never they always say. I just figure it makes sense to link to the presentation I made in London at the FOWD conference....
Well the big day is finally here; it is my last day at Moosylvania . Many of you might not even know that I was ever even working here. Well for the last year or so I have had the pleasure of helping a print agency jump head first into the interactive world. It has had its up and downs; but in the end it was a positive experience. I have grown out of it and learned a lot about marketing, management, client work, life and myself. It's amazing the kind of stuff you figure out about the work you do when you have to explain, justify and communicate the many nuances of what you do to people who need...
I have been throughly enjoying SXSW. Luckily I have been staying with a friend ( Justin ), which is great because I would other wise be throughly bored. Overall the conference has been fantastic. The biggest complaint I have is with some of the presentations. I knwo it isn't easy giving them, and they take an awful long time to build. But it really seems that some of them just really lack real nuggets of usefulness; stuff you can act on and do. In particular the keynotes almost seem pointless and unrelated to web development. Maybe it is just me though, I hate to be to harsh. One of the best sessions...
I am so excited to be finally heading to SXSW . It is a bit over whelming checking out the schedule of events, but clearly there is a ton of awesome information to be absorbed.I look forward to posting some key things that stick out to me. If you happen to be at SXSW hunt me down, I will be sporting one of my many Design Meltdown t-shirts!
