Peter Vidani
March 2009
Coloring way inside the lines
Creating minimalist designs is so much more challenging than whatever the opposite of that is. In the web’s case, it usually means cutting elements or features that exist only because they’ve been around long enough and never questioned. You have to think, “does the user need this?” “Is this a want that evolved into a need? Or is it still a want.” “If this weren’t here, would anyone notice?”
Ultimately, it’s “If this were gone, would everything else benefit?”
I shouldn’t even call it minimal design, everything else should just be called excess.
February 2009
“I was supposed to be in that movie Rush Hour, but two weeks into shooting I was replaced by Jackie Chan.”
—Tracy Jordan
Listen
of Montreal - Your Magic Is Working
From Satanic Panic In the Attic, one of the albums I got super into with my tigress.
just redesigned
blog.gfxcorps.com
Eh. Tumblr has one major problem when posting items. Sometimes the description of images, links, videos and other posts don’t automatically add paragraph tags. I don’t know if this is just an issue with the bookmarklet or what but it’s freakin’ annoying because it screws up all the padding and, well, frankly it makes me sad.
(sad face goes here)
I’ve gotten this same issue. I think it somewhat depends on the editor’s type (rich text/html/markdown) but I haven’t really looked into it.
Just under 100 pages in
And I just glanced at a major spoiler to Atlas Shugged on Wikipedia. So many dammits right now. Really, steaming right now. I wish I could swallow one of GOB Bluth’s forgetmenows.
If you’ve read the book, can you email me? I want to know how much I’ve just ruined. peter@yeahdu.de
