Archive: Posts about Design
November 14th, 2005, No Comments »
JBoss, as the geekier among you may know, is a popular open source middleware platform (and, ironically, a competitor to one of my clients). Paul Tamaro works at Novell, and he’s built a theme for for JBoss Portal web app. With my permission, he integrated a photo I took of Ernest Hemingway’s house (part of this set–don’t miss the lizard in a jar) outside Havana in the theme.
It’s not available yet, but will be shortly (in the unlikely event any of you are crazy-mad JBoss nuts) at the JBoss PortletSwap. Here’s a full size preview.
I’ve fielded a few requests for my images, from a teacher who wanted to use these impalas (impala? Apparently both are acceptable) in the classroom, to this Dell box scan in a tech magazine.
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November 10th, 2005, 3 Comments »
Just a quick plug for my day-job. We recently redesigned and rewrote Atimi Software’s corporate site. I’m really happy with how it turned out, in terms of both design and content. If you refresh most pages, we’ve got some PHP goodness that displays different content boxes. There are a few bugs to work out, but it’s more or less ready for prime time.
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July 30th, 2005, 2 Comments »
I know very little about design, but ever since taking Allan Stichbury’s course, “Design for Non-Designers”, I’ve been intrigued. I consider myself a first-grade student of design.
I was recently in the Morrissey Irish House, and visited the facilities. In lieu of the white, boxy, underpowered hand dryer, they’ve got the XLerator. It’s like the ‘84 Transam of hand dryers, all chrome and powerful enough to strip the skin from your hands (well, almost). And apparently it uses 80% less energy. I snapped a photo with my crappy phone camera.
Good for them, I thought, for thinking differently. They’ve taken an utterly common, everyday object and improved it 100%, stylistically and functionally. It’s the iPod of hand dryers.
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January 23rd, 2005, 3 Comments »
As regular readers know, Ray vanderWoning completed the recent redesign of this site. Having kicked it around for a couple of months, it’s proved excellent, and I’ve only received praise for the design. Ray has recently launched his new design business, complete with a mallard on the front page.
Ray’s personal blog is here, and his old domain is now his photography portfolio (more gorgeous photos of birds within).
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