Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

December 5, 2009 2

An Example of Intentional Design

By Robert Minto in Appreciation, Art, Blogging, Design

Whilst googling recipes for bacon-wrapped sirloin and listening to Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy,” I took a break (out of frustration that I have no mustard on hand…) and did some blog-design browsing. (Blog-design browsing involves surfing around one’s favorite blogs and the blogs they link to, mainly ignoring content in order to examine their layout, color, [...]

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December 3, 2009 0

Design Envy

By Robert Minto in Art, Blogging, Design

Having personally gone through several dozen site redesigns in my (relatively) short stay in cyberspace—most of them prompted by comparing the appearance of my site to the much better appearance of other sites—I consider myself something of an authority on design envy.
I’m not yet an authority on design itself; but I consider my envy in [...]

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