This morning my dad and I sat around playing with some new ideas for his business cards and overall brand. You can see his old logo on his site. The redesign and rebranding stems from wanting to be clearer about what he does as a business while at the same time simplifying his office setup. [...]
Yesterday, I finished the joke of a class they call “Digital Art”. It attempted to cover Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Flash in 16 weeks and failed miserably. We were required to produce 3 images, 1 website, and 1 animation that had to be based in Flash. If you are a professional, you don’t get (or need) [...]
I had an assignment in my digital art class to create some sort of animation to go along with one of three 30 second audio clips the teacher gave us. As always, I wasn’t too inspired so I did what any lazy artist does- reuse and recycle. Just last week, I was actually teaching a [...]
Yesterday, I read a great write up over on PC Pro about how Adobe’s Dreamweaver is dying off as an option for designers looking to make the switch from print to web design. I couldn’t agree more! Like they point out, the web is no longer static meaning you can’t run a site by building [...]
What isn’t web art? Anything your browser renders is web art in my opinion. From the CSS+XHTML compliant layout, to the interactive Flash portfolio, to the favicon that brands every domain. It’s all web art. Web design is web art. The effective combination of typography, colors, and images rolled into one usable interface displaying information [...]
