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Aight so i think that in everyones lives we all have simple pleasure that we take for granted. Some of my favorites are….
the cool side of the pil;low and being so comfortable that moving becomes the most terrifying task because it is so rare.
the connection between friends to where when you do the most ridiculous, goofy things and for some reason they are in the exact state of mine and have either already started doing it to or jump right in.
the days that are just perfect out; not too hot, not to cold, but just right.
the days sitting around with friends watching movies; particularly kung fu and zombie movies.
playing Sega with friends.
floating on fresh powder on a blue bird day.
popping a clean ollie over a sewer right before i bomb a hill; carving big cement hill with friends.
landing a new trick after working on it and working on and working on it.
sending a new problem, route, or dyno; barn dooring so hard that you feel like you should go flying off but you keep griping the hold till you can get your feet back on.
GOOD DESIGN… searching the internet and coming across a new artist, finding beautiful package or product design, good typography, and great screen prints.
listening to albums for the first time or listening to them on vinyl; and finding new great bands and dancing to them.
cooking old recipes and reaping the benefit afterwards.
finding great images and scanning them in and using them in my art.
cruising around town on my fixey.
These are just the tip of the barrel. and as cheesy as they sound i enjoy them.
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WETYOURBISCUIT.COM Is an inspiration blog I start in december. I created it to inspire, promote, and display good design. WetYourBiscuit includes Design, Art, Music, Film, Product Design, and Concepts. Check it out and i hope you enjoy.
Filed under: Web Media | Tags: web banners, the pioneer woman, beautiful decay
So Web Banners …… They are everywhere but it can be harder to find good ones because now days wee see a lot of spam and what not and it is just gross. But there are some decent as well as good one out there. So the Pioneer Woman one you see above isn’t too bad except for the horrible butterflies with drop shadows i mean come on. but other than that it really is a solid web banner. The type treatment works well with the style of the banner, and the color combination works well.
This one is a flash banner from Beautiful Decay advertising t-shirts from independent artist. The style might seem strange but that is the style of Beautiful Decay. Ithink it is a strong banner. Here are some other banners found by a couple of my class mates Austin Reed and Casey Graves. What we decided was that with web banners is that the more simple and less text a banner has the better it looks.
this one is great by the way. simple and well designed.
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.
