I just finished a web portfolio project for my talented photographer friend, Stefanie Villeneuve. I designed and developed an html5 website that showcases her photography in a minimalist direction, letting her work speak for itself.
One of the lasting influences of Swiss design on contemporary graphic design is the grid. It’s only been the past year that I’ve really appreciated the use of grid for interactive design projects, and how it really brings a design together cohesively and structurally, just as it does for print.
Here’s a great book lent to me by my friend, Richard, called “Universal Principles of Design” by William Lidwell, Kritrina Holden + Jill Butler. The book covers ideas and concepts that apply to different fields of design, from graphic design, industrial design, interactive design, to architecture.
For the past week I’ve been reading this really great book, “Responsive Web Design”, by Ethan Marcotte. It outlines the reasons for and strategies used in building responsive web designs.
Here’s a great and convenient way to test cross-browser support for the website(s) you design: Adobe’s BrowserLab. Introduced late 2010, BrowserLab allows you to view your website in their webservice, and simply check which browsers you would like see it in. This is especially useful for testing on IE6 and IE7 browsers for Windows XP. The [...]
I just found out about this website yesterday from the instructor of my Intro To Web Design class: The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web . The website is essentially Robert Bringhurst’s classic book applied to web typography (which can be notoriously difficult to manage and design with). As far as I can [...]