Max Beatty

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 […]