Art is not design, and vice-versa. There are many intersecting points between both, but they have different purposes.
Art and design may often borrow elements one from each other, but ultimately, there are two separated things.
Design means usability, not ornamentation. However, ornamentation may be play a huge role on usability.
Art is an expression of the self. That is why art is so often developed by single individuals or, less often by a very small group, generally a duo. And that is why a lot of duos or groups break up very soon, and sometimes not without fights.
While the purpose of art is to draw the attention to itself, to make the viewer to forget the world for a while and concentrate on it, the purpose of design is just to sit there, without being noticed, while the viewer pays attention to something else.
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A fluid layout for a web page is one that adapts itself to the window size, an elastic layout is one that adapts itself to text size. When nothing of this happens, the layout is said to be fixed.
A layout that Fluid and Elastic is a step towards a future with high screen resolutions
One of my great ambitions for the Z’oC Layout was to have a layout that was both fluid and elastic layout, and this is just what I have done. I completely redesigned the layout to be fluid, elastic and more reader friendly.
A layout that is both fluid and elastic means that you are able to take advantage of all screen, whatever format and resolution your public may have and, additionally, means that you can increase the text size a lot without breaking the layout.
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It is curious how sometimes either you are so glad with your own learning path that you are terrified with the possibility that it have been different or else, you admire so much someone elese’s knowledge that you anguish yourself for experiences you hadn’t.
Like many other people, I had felt both those feelings before and I am sure I will again.
I think this is much the feeling on this post about digital photography and the learning oportunities being missed by the lack of obstacles, now overcame, of traditional photography (like film prices and a long developping process).
I migh identify myself with the feeling, but I do not share the mixed feelings about technology he describes, at least not from the creative point of view nor the learning experience.
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Just a quick message.
The Zo’C website had an outage of about 5 hours today. Actually Dreamhost had and outage and for some reason the Apache configuration of my account was corrupted.
Sorry for those who tried to reach the site and couldn’t.
Now the Z’oC site is back. Not all domains I host are working properly, but Dreamhost support team is already taking care of the issue.
Have fun.
