In addition to playing 14 hours of Minecraft this weekend, I had a little project. Brennan wanted a small portfolio/profile site. He wanted it to be Ulta-minimalist, “the style of no style” and I think it turned out really great.
Sia academia [kinetic typography]
A super cool, kinda nerdy music video by Steve Buss.
sarahsutin.com [finally]
8 months ago this Sunday, I registered sarahsutin.com planning to make the website immediately. Sarah didn’t really see the point but she’s an amazing girlfriend and I needed a project so she humored me. So what have I been doing since then? Avoiding her website apparently.
Fireworks
Wow, my eyes have been opened today. Up to this point I’ve been using Photoshop as a design prototyping tool for my websites because of how familiar I am with it [apparently this is actually pretty commonplace]. But today I started experimenting in Adobe Fireworks.
Updates updates updates
First of all as you read this page you may notice that it feels different but since I haven’t posted in a while you probably can’t figure out what it is.
The Cupola at 141 Fifth Avenue
If I had to guess what the top 5 most viewed things on the internet were, I’d guess porn, people doing stupid things, kittens, absurdly expensive things, and porn
This post covers #4.
My red bike
Art by Bobby Chiu. It’s very interesting, high detail, variable scale, frozen action.
8bit collective
For a while now, every gadget that Joshua Topolsky reviews on Engadget has awesome 8bit-style art as wallpaper. Recently, along with the launch of Engadget Alt, he revealed where he got these beautiful backgrounds. Eboy. Here are some samples.
Cosmic dust
Yesterday I started prototyping for a new website I’m working on and typography is an integral part of the design. So to celebrate the power of typography, here’s a recent post from Friends of Type.
Post-apocalyptic art
There is something incredibly beautiful about these photos. I’m not sure if it’s the fantasy of it, the idea of a world without humans or what it is, but looking at them is just hypnotizing