Archive: Design category
I went to the BYU Writing & Illustrating for Young Readers Workshop last week -- five full days of writing awesomeness.
I'm starting to do some more language-related design work and thought I'd post a sample. This is part of a Latin declensions chart.
Listening to Dan Rubin's talk at An Event Apart yesterday got me itching to add some texture to this site...
It's not about the numbers, I know, but I often feel like I want to do everything and be everything, swallowing the universe down whole so I can really truly live it.
I'm the type who has to change my desktop background every few weeks. Luckily the life cycle of my designs on this site is a bit longer than that, but it's time for a new look.
I know it's only been like a week, but the typography on this site was bothering me, so I've tweaked it, along with the color scheme (which was regrettably hard to read).
Before (actually, I had already changed the body text to Georgia here; it was Helvetica Neue):...
More pictures and a bit more of a magaziney look:
On the invisible side of things, I finally put together the WordPress-based infrastructure to support multiple issues. (It was a hack up until now.) For the WordPress-curious, I'm ...
I used to run Linux, and I reveled in having so many options available to me -- I could do anything.
But I didn't.
Then a few years ago I converted to Mac and -- to my surprise -- gladly gave up the ability to customize everything. See, sometimes it's really ...
I keep thinking I'm blogging almost every day, but then I look at the actual blog and realize I'm only posting one day in three. I must be getting old, the way my sense of time is completely fluid. Or maybe I'm getting more eternal.
Anyway, I was thinking ...
Yesterday I discovered MagCloud, which Derek Powazek says is "the future of magazine publishing":
MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we'll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.
Basically, it's Lulu for ...
