May 1st Reboot is live
added on Sunday, Apr 30, 2006 12:12 pm
May 1st is here, time for a reboot. Here is the lowdown: ¬ Full Entry
The Dragon and Eye
added on Sunday, Apr 30, 2006 12:12 pm
These are two snowboard artworks for Head. Unfortunately they rejected both and went for the other Warriors’ more illustrative approaches (i.e. Flieger‘s). Maybe the average snowboarder is not so much into my clean processed graphics. So, if anybody is interested, these two designs are up for sale! Just drop a line in the comments. ¬ Full Entry
Cross-eyed
added on Sunday, Apr 30, 2006 11:45 am
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Stressed out from an extensive city-shopping-session I leisurely dropped this 5-minuted drawing in my sketch-book. I really have a hard time reproducing this airy casual line in another drawing... ¬ Comments
May 1st Reboot ahead
added on Tuesday, Apr 25, 2006 9:46 am
Oh no! The green slimy things came and ate the server!
Well, no. It’s just May 1st Reboot ahead. This is an international relaunch of websites by authors and creatives working within the field of web design. Already over 500 participants are registered and counting. More info here
So, please come back on May 1st! Let’s see what I will come up with…
Minor personal opinion ahead: May 1st Reboot is a great idea and heaps of respect to those who make it happen. If you allow me to drop two constructive feedback points:
- The holder page provided links to the May 1st website, but you only get the overview and the reboot idea if you have flash 8 installed. At least the overview text should be made accessible to anybody.
- And the holder page still uses tables, like back in 1999. Such a innovation-focused project should not promote deprecated technologies.
Bootcamp
added on Thursday, Apr 06, 2006 20:31 pm
Now, you stubborn narrow-minded PC nerds! You always told us enlightened enthusiastic Apple fans “Yeah, I know, Macs are great, but I definitely need software X/game Y/whatever and that just doesn’t run on a mac.”
Haha! Gotcha, because Apple released a public beta of a tool called Bootcamp today that lets you install a standard Windows XP on any of the new Intel-based macs! And you can run any boring useful Windows thing you ever want. Now that your last argument fades, please head on over to the Apple Store, would you? ¬ Full Entry
I'm going naked tomorrow
added on Tuesday, Apr 04, 2006 8:34 am
Funny little worldwide community thing going on tomorrow, April 05: It’s the First Annual Naked Day. That means that for this particular day, website holders are encouraged to drop their CSS. This again means, there will be no “design” anymore, just raw unstyled text and images.
Why would somebody sane do this? The point is: neatly designed layout, beautiful colors and carefully chosen typefaces are something wonderful. As long as you have a big color-screen and two healthy eye-balls. But these things will not mean much to you if you have to surf the web with a screen-reader (because you are sight-impaired) or on a screen with 160×160 pixels (because you are underway and only have a PDA with you). This is why modern websites should have proper semantics behind their design. Every element should still have a clear meaning and so the website should still be usable even with the “Design” switched off.
To promote this often not so visible quality is the goal of First Annual Naked Day. And it sound like a lot of fun as well… ¬ Comments
Mod_Rewrite Magic
added on Monday, Mar 20, 2006 8:44 am
Hello dear reader. May I turn your attention to the top of this and your browser window: After clicking any link, please have a look at the address field, the experts like to refer to it by the URL. Since some minutes ago you can see a nice and talkative folder structure like "favourites/newest" there instead of ugly things like "index.php?tagId=12&itemId=34". ¬ Full Entry
Windows XP on an Intel Mac
added on Friday, Mar 17, 2006 16:04 pm
It was about time! Somebody managed to get Windows XP installed and running on one of the new Intel Macs. There is also detailed instructions, a wiki and a forum available. Bingo!
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Apple+F1/2 Shortcut
added on Monday, Mar 13, 2006 9:44 am
I didn't know there is a keyboard shortcut for recognizing monitors: Just press either Apple+F1 or Apple+F2 on a powerbook. As I use my book for all purposes work/play/watching video, I grew pretty tired of going "system preferences - monitors - click button to recognize monitors" everytime I switched from work to mobile use, from mobile use to TV, etc. So this is pretty big news to me, so I thought I let you all know about it. ¬ Comments
Candy Mag
added on Friday, Mar 10, 2006 20:03 pm
Astonishing photography, illustrations, typography, graphic design and the like on no less than 219 gorgeous pages in the new issue #5 from Candy magazine. The rather lengthy subline tells us, Candy is "An indepentent venture developed to showcase exceptional Irish creativity and culture alongside international equivalents."
And the best about it: It's all in a freely downloadable PDF!
The current issue is so massive that they had to split it in two parts. Part 2 will be out on April 1st. Until then the first part will blow you away. Are you still reading this bland post? Get going! ¬ Comments
Ma.gnolia.com
added on Tuesday, Feb 21, 2006 8:18 am
There’s a new social bookmarking website called Ma.gnolia.com. Like the older and immensely popular del.icio.us you can easily keep all you bookmarks together and share them with others. It seems to be very well thought out and sweet to look at. Also there is some functionality to set it apart from del.icio.us. Not a real surprise as Jeffrey Zeldman’s Happy Cog Studios were in charge of the design.
I will surely check it out. But to be honest: I love the idea of sharing bookmarks and it’s all the hype, but I don’t really feel like getting seriously involved. Not that I dislike the concept or the design of the site, it’s just that I don’t want even more bookmarks. Keeping up with with a bunch of sites and people by RSS feed is already more than I can take in, thanks. Thousands of interesting (additional) links about literally anything, poorly structured by a bunch of individuals? hmm, maybe later on…
Thought: I do not need to increase the quantity of consumed daily content, but the quality. Where are the tools for that? ¬ Comments
Scumskullz.com
added on Sunday, Feb 19, 2006 17:03 pm
Nothing like a little retro-retro-pixel goodness on a sunday afternoon.
Scumskullz.com gathers little pixelish characters, derived from a 5×5 pixel grid and two easy rules. The site is already pretty old, but now they claim to have all 12,209 possible combinations discovered, with the help of their users. And every Scumskullz can be found in their database along with his/her unique name and discoverer. That's what I would call bringing a great idea to its fullest extent.
Here's my contribution from 04 Feb 2004, 14:14, the Tentacyclops. ¬ Full Entry
Pixelfont Spread
added on Friday, Feb 10, 2006 17:53 pm
Digging for an old project I came about this double page spread about my pixel fonts. All four of them on one page in a nicely styled overview with lots of yummy layered digicam screen shots. I did this for the design magazine "qyll" that unfortunately did not make it to the news stand. ¬ Comments
Creepo
added on Friday, Jan 27, 2006 22:27 pm
We’re deep into january and it’s dark all day long, and much colder than it should be. I really thank my mom for the hand-knitted wollen beanie for christmas. Keeps my ears warm and cosy.
To make it a little bit more attractive to the eyes too, I stitched a little character on it. I definitely have a soft spot for video game villains, so after a little pixel-doodle it ended up with this cross-breed of the Pac-Man ghost and a default Space Invader with two horns. I called it Creepo.
To get my powerbook through these cold days as well, I also created a darkish-green desktop image with the little fellow, for your downloading pleasure here. ¬ Full Entry
Google Earth for Mac
added on Wednesday, Jan 11, 2006 9:49 am
Google Earth, the phantastic desktop frontend to the Google Maps database is now also available for Mac OS X as a beta.
MacWorldExpo Rundown
added on Tuesday, Jan 10, 2006 22:06 pm
If you are tired of browsing Apple.com and don’t want to see the whole 90 minutes of Steve-ness in the keynote webcast, here is my personal notes from today’s Apple news: ¬ Full Entry
August
added on Saturday, Jan 07, 2006 19:26 pm
Every year we at the Warriors of Light give away special christmas presents to our clients. In 2005 we did a calendar for the following year, twelve warriors created one artwork, one for every month. I got August. There was no overall concept, everybody could delve into what she/he preferred. The only thing I knew when I started was, that it should be free graphics combined with a photographic background.
Top 50 Music Videos of 2005
added on Saturday, Jan 07, 2006 15:31 pm
Ok, the music video culture seems to be in a bitter crisis these days. MTV and the like turning in a ringtone-and-stupid-show-concepts-vault.
I was happily surprised that I missed a lot great music videos last year. Music television as we know it is no more, so the net starts to fill in the gap and gets the new channel for music videos.
Here is a list of the best 50 put together by blogger Thomas Christensen. A blast of creativity, dig in if you have two hours to spend and a fat internet connection:
Read the blog post over at docopenhagen.blogspot.com ¬ Full Entry