Although I can’t remember even the last time I saw color bars. What are today’s kids going to reference when they’re graphic designers?

Television Graphics Around the World

I found this animated gif that is a stop motion animation of a design process using CSS. View It

It got me thinking how important content is and how to design around it, rather than creating high level design “shells” for content to fit into. Starting with content is much easier to work with than finding some photos and then asking the client to think of some words to go with it.

A thumbnail list of the design process could go like this:
1. Use Cases
2. Site Architecture
3. Content or Content Examples
4. Wireframes
4. Moodboards
5. Design
6. Remaining Content
7. Production

With CSS and XHTML, this process could be additive all the way along, so rather than spending weeks and weeks creating mockups of pages and then giving the programmers templates, the content could be created in XHTML just waiting for a style sheet. This would make a highly flexible design process.

I found this animated gif that is a stop motion animation of a design process using CSS. View It

It got me thinking how important content is and how to design around it, rather than creating high level design “shells” for content to fit into. Starting with content is much easier to work with than finding some photos and then asking the client to think of some words to go with it.

A thumbnail list of the design process could go like this:
1. Use Cases
2. Site Architecture
3. Content or Content Examples
4. Wireframes
4. Moodboards
5. Design
6. Remaining Content
7. Production

With CSS and XHTML, this process could be additive all the way along, so rather than spending weeks and weeks creating mockups of pages and then giving the programmers templates, the content could be created in XHTML just waiting for a style sheet. This would make a highly flexible design process.

What a neato web site. Funny, too. I think you’ll all like it.

Period.

Mike Davidson has released sIFR 2.0 (well, he released it in April, but I started in June). Anyway, it’s really pretty amazing idea for type that looks the way you want it, but is available to search engines, screen readers and degrades sans flash. Did I mention it can be copy/pasted? What more could you want? Check out the example page here.

I vote for Sydney (way at the bottom). A collection of logos for the various Metros worldwide.

It’s really hard, but cool design and interesting way of thinking about navigation without buttons.

Here’s a really interesting profile on a NW agency. They’ve done some great work, and I was THIS close to buying another pair of Converse. Cool work.

Isn’t the internet great? I mean, where else would you find something like this?