Posts Tagged ‘design’

Refreshing art from old to new.

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

I don’t always know what it is about a piece that moves me, but I surely know it when it does. I aspire to self-greatness and in my journey I have come across many works of art that help me reach that next level.

Here is a case in point:

Skull study from http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/

Skull study from http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/

Leonardo da Vinci, was a genius. I can only begin to comprehend what that must be like by his drawings. I visit this site and learn something new every time. The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.

As for what makes a modern artist inspiring, well, that is even harder. There are so many that have a flair for the trends, and sort of ride the wave. Then there are others that make the waves and trends. Shinybinary is a good example of commercial meets visionary, besides, he has a passion for typography and I always enjoy the art of words/letters/fonts.

Fluid from shinybinary.com

Fluid from shinybinary.com

Enjoi

Web Design+ Tips and advice on web standards development

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Web Design+ — Tips and advice on web standards development. via CSSBeauty.

This is a great resource for getting around some troublesome areas around web design. A lot of the information here also relates to best practices and details what works and what doesn’t and why. If I find a part of a page particularly tricky to accomplish to solve with css, I usually resort to jQuery, which works, but could potentially be limiting to some people.

This list of essentially dos and don’ts is the perfect resource for anybody creating a template, or converting a design to actual markup. A few of the resources I employ are the Yahoo YUI Reset css sheet, 960.css for grid designs, and a starter CSS sheet that I generaly use for all designs across the board. This page covers a few tricks that will definately be going into my bag of tricks.