In december I’ve wrote an article talking a little bit about color theory and featuring Kuler, a very nice and useful tool from Adobe to explore the color theory.
Now, reading the Usabilità blog I came across with a nice tool that is much simpler, but has the power to bring insight when choosing colors for web pages. Also has the advantage that no much color theory is needed to use it. Very useful tool.
If this appeals to you, check Yafla.
A few weeks ago I came up with the idea of having a web page with images composed of multiple layers and the layers could move differently when the object is resized.
And here it is.
Of course we all see web 2.0 pages with a lot of resizable and draggable menus, images and all imaginable things, but I decided to do it very clean and very easy to understand, after all is just a proof of concept.
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On february 22, 2006 the Zo’C blog started as a gourmet blog about food and lifestyle, but the need for a broader subject made design , photography, web development, book reviews and a couple of more things to show up.
Initially it was a project together with my wife, but I ended up giving her the annazuhlke.com domain and she started her own blog that now resides at www.annazuhlke.com/whiterabbit. By the way, that is where the Zo’C name comes from, it stands fror Zühlke-O’Connor, the common part of our surnames.
As a birthday present to myself and the Zo’C blog. I have upgraded it from the basic blogger blog to a fully hosted WordPress blog in dreamhost.
It took me over a day to take the old and nice Zo’C layout and implementing it to suit the base of the wonderful Sirius theme. Also I had to tweak a lot of the internal PHP to make it look just like the old one.
Well, not quite…
I have just finished reading Robert Bringhurst’s book Elements of Typographic Style
Being typography an art over half a millenium old and being the natural heir of the millenar legacy of scribes, there is plenty to learn from history when typesseting a text.
Any good designer knows that desing is much more than just good taste and typography is no exception.
Much of what pleases us is related to natural (biological) factors and is generally universal and somehow unvariable over history. Another good part is cultural, which ends up in history again to understand its dynamics.
I came across with “Talent is not enough: Secret business for designers” by chance and decided to buy it because I read some nice reviews of it, and additionally, is a cheap book.
Whether you are a designer or any other kind of problem-solving professional, as software developpers, photographers or even artists, if you like what you do but you are frustrated with the amount of bureacracy and networking envolved, you must definetely buy this book.
This post is just to wish all my faithful readers as well as the readers passing by a very, very cool Christmas.
Have fun!
Except for some people that were born with some strong color sense in their veins, most of us know that matching colors is not naturally easy.
Black and white are easy to match, adding and third color to this mixture is simple as well, but putting another color on the game may be very painful for untrained eyes.
Whether you are a web, graphic, fashion or any other kind of visual designer or not. It is probable that you will have to deal with color at some point, because it is likely that you will interact with a designer’s work.
In face of models dying of anorexia and on the other hand, almost every woman that is not a model finding herself ugly, the Dove campaign for real beauty is not only a beatiful and brave advertising campaign, but is also an inspired humane one.
Be sure to enter the blog to see the video.
My flickr has reached 1000 views, mark that the Zo’C blog had already reached some weeks ago.
This may not seem a lot, but still I’m happy with this, because, after all, both are very young.
So I’ll celebrate publishing this commemorative picture.
I have recieved a lot of nice feedback regarding the new layout of the Zo’C blog and one of the most commented items is the logo, and people wonder where idea came from.
The idea came from a little wooden owl that I have for years, since I was a kid.
I don’t really know, how it happened to become mine, but I have it for more than two decades now, and it is been sitting over my computer’s monitor for almost a decade.
So I decided that this nice and loyal little fellow would give good inspiration for the logo.
The logo is actually its silhouette, cutted vertically on halves and mirrored, to have perfect simetry.
The owl being a symbol for people who like to work at night, like most computer related developers is a nice plus, but was not the main reason for the choice.
Guilherme
is a Web Designer focused on web standards and the web ahead of us.
On his free time he enjoys cinema, travelling, cooking and eating.
