Filed under: Web Media, inspiration | Tags: AOL, DIY Summit, Kevin Lawver, Web
Alright, so there is this DIY Summit today, and I was looking over the speakers last night to see whether or not I was wasting my time. Well. . . turns out the list of speakers was solid. And as I’m looking at the line up, I see at 10:00 this guy, Kevin Lawver is talking.
Well if you don’t know who this guys is let me fill you in a bit. Kevin Lawver is a super cool, fun, and sick web designer that a lot of experience and expertise under his belt. He takes a lot of photos and is really into to his family especially his son Max. Heres the low down on Kevin. Kevin Lawver in 1999-2000 developed and programed AOL’s Maintenance Request Tool (this thing ran for eight years before they had to do any maintenance on it). Photo By Kevin Lawver
Also from 1999 to 2003 he was the sole front-end developer on AOL Search; he took this from being a delicate little nothing to being the number two search engine in the world (number one was google). Kevin also made AOL Search engine run even more efficient than before the load time went from 14 seconds to 3. 2003 to 2004 Kevin continued to work with and on AOL’s search engine to improve it and add an add a feature that allowed people and companies to put up search related adds. In 2005 he moved back to the publishing side of the game to create the fastest feed reader on the web at its launch. From 2005 to 2007 Kevin was one of three architects working on AIM Pages.”AIM Pages was a ground-breaking publishing tool for the web. It used the Dojo toolkit, a new microformat called ModuleT to describe modular web content (patent pending), several new web services, and a completely open platform for allowing users, content creators and third-party developers access to the AOL and AIM membership.”
From 2007 to 2008 Kevin designed Ficlets and is the architect for AIM Photos, and on top of that was writing a chapter in a book on adapting to web standards. 2008 to now Kevin Lawver is working for a company called Music Intelligence Solution. he is now building really sick website for them and doing it right.
His presention today is going to give us a introduction to Ruby on Rails
“Are you afraid of the “backend”? Are you intimidated by if statements, while loops and the mysterious MVC? You don’t need to be! Ruby on Rails takes the WTF out of MVC and replaces it with enthusiastic shouts of “OMFG!” By the time this presentation is over, you’ll learn what Ruby on Rails is, how to start a new project, create models, controllers and views and get from idea (we might build a blog, for example) to something that works faster than you’ve ever done it before. There’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s just a little code, some magic and the option of least surprise.”(DIY Summit)
sources used:
http://www.environmentsforhumans.com/diysummit/
http://kevinlawver.com/
www.flickr.com/photos/kplawver
The HelloWorld.show(); is an exhibit that opened July 31st, 2009 at CreateHere in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The HelloWorld.show(); is the first of it’s kind, was a way for web designers to display how source code is an art form and can be appreciated by the beauty of its complexity and structure.
The exhibit displays a collection of works from around the world.
Photos: by TJ Bowman
I was given a calendar. And it was a mess. So i began looking at examples. These examples are a beginning in my exploration of the perfect way to design a calendar. Well my design probably won’t be perfect but I am looking to find a solid resolution for a calendar.
www.designcapetown.co.za
www.walyou.com/img/bubble-wrap-calendar-design
http://www.dirtymouse.co.uk
Filed under: 09_271_sp Type 1 | Tags: 28 days later, design poster, drew meyer, Graphic Design, movie poster, poster design
After being inspired by many great designers, such as Saul Bass, I created a movie poster for the movie “28 Days Later.” I chose this movie because it is a completely different style of the zombie movie genre. I tried a couple of different styles of poster layouts, including some directly inspired by Saul Bass. I end up with a fairly simple design with a bright green to break threw the black and create a pop. This is my first poster design, and I feel as though I have created a successful design that would truly function as an actual movie poster.
alright so last night i was stuck. just stuck. there was nothing…at all. i needed inspiration and bad. after posting it as my status on facebook and my peers suggested “magic, lullabies in multiple languages, raps, videos of break dancing masscots. i was in spired…….. to remember to do my type. and get in spired. these guy were amazing
El Lissitzky
Alexander Rodchenko
Josef Mullar Brockmann
Max Humber
Armin Hofmann
Lester Beall
Herbert Matter
Saul Bass
Filed under: 09_271_sp Type 1, Graphic Design | Tags: design poster, Edward R. Tufte, Graphic Design, macro, Macro & Micro Readings, micro, typography
I created a poster design for the article “Macro & Micro Readings” by Edward R. Tufte. The article talks about how from a distance good design is simple on the Macro level, and how detail is equally important and will refine a design especially up close on the micro level. I used a bright teal to grab the viewers’ attention, and constricted the images in a plane that cuts through the composition creating the illusion of depth. One element that I am particularly proud of is the negative space and the forms it creates.
Filed under: 09_271_sp Type 1
This is a four page layout for the article “On (Design) Bullshit” written by Michael Bierut. The layout is based a one column grid. I used the Font Gotham as well high contrast images of buildings designed by Richard Meier. This brings a clean, simple feel to the layout. This is the first layout I have done with a grid and it surprised me how simple and organized a layout becomes with a grid.
