The Science of Web Art, Design and Development

I am very much fond of rainy urban days and evenings [and even nights] which is rare to have at south east Brazil because of the tropical weather.

But this weekend we went to São Paulo to watch Franz Ferdinand and we stayed at Anna’s brother apartament.

Luiz’s apartament is located at Higienópolis, one of the nicest neighborhods in São Paulo and his apartament has a beautiful view to Mackenzie University and São Paulo’s skyline.

To complete the perfect urban scene eventually a light rain started to fall while we were waiting for the time to go. I’m so lucky I had my camera with me.

Unhappily, I didn’t wanted to take the risk of getting my camera to the concert.

Two excellent food links.

www.Mediterrasian.com is about gourmet living and eating based on Asiatic and Mediterranean ways of living. I usually get tired of “healthy food” sites because usually they utlimately try to tell you that the perfect nutritional ballance on food is automatically the source of flavor and love for food when that is actually… well… untrue.

However, it is actually possible to eat deliciously and nutritive food at the same time.  Maintained by a couple settled in New Zealand, mediterrasian.com manage to offer a way of living thas delicious and healthy at the same time, without that “monk-a-like” way of living, usually attached to the healthy issue. Worth to know for people who love to cook.

www.SlowFood.com is a site that I knew only this weekend, although Slow Food exists since 1986. Slow Food is a magazine aimed to prove that cooking and eating are not only primal animal necessities, but they can actually be two joyful and pleasant activities.

And as everything in life, must be done with the necessary

Typography is one of my favourite subjects in design. The role of typography is fundamental on every piece of design in which is contained.

In fact, typography is so powerful that you can do an entire image based solely on types.

I’ve done this “flower” in just a few minutes, quick and simple on Times New Roman types, inspired by the cover art of Jeremy Keith’s book “DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model“.

In fact, I am looking for good typography books, please leave your suggestions.