Joshua Herzig-Marx » design

Happy Halloween!

herzigma — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:52:38 +0000

I hate Halloween. I don’t even think I liked it as a kid. Now that we’re all grown up, have our own house and our own front door, we celebrate the holiday by locking the door, turning off all the lights, and hiding upstairs. If there were more kids in the neighborhood, we’d probably be egged.

That said, our good friends love Halloween and invited us over to carve pumpkins. I tricked out my jack-o-lantern Dremel style, with the scariest, spookiest image I could imagine:

C’mon – what’s more terrifying than a saccharine proclamation of the seasonal squash declaring joyfully how it sacrificed its guts (which should have made a very tasty soup if we weren’t too lazy to pick out the seeds). Here are some more shots, including a close up of Jeff’s considerably greater skill.

McGill clock from Furni

herzigma — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:58:47 +0000

Click the picture above to see a larger pic of my new clock. Well, it’s not exactly mine yet, it’s just preordered but the nice folks at Furni sent me that great shot of the prototype so I could gaze lustfully until it ships later this summer. If you don’t know Furni, you should. They make extremely stylish bits of home decor and sell them for surprisingly reasonable prices on their web store. For example, this clock is now listed at only US$56 plus shipping. Thanks to the Grassroots Modern blog for tipping me off.

StockLayouts: Graphic Design Templates – Brochure Templates, Newsletter Templates and More!

herzigma — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:10:49 +0000

The Duct Tape Marketing blog suggested StockLayouts for professional looking and inexpensive off-the-shelf design. Looks pretty good – and certainly better than what I’d be able to do.

Yahoo! UI Library

herzigma — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:38:12 +0000

Thank you Yahoo! They’re releasing a collection of their web UI objects and methods under the BSD license. I’ve given these a cursory read through – the documentation is good enough that a non-developer like me could probably take advantage of some of the functionality. Now, does this mean that Yahoo thinks they have even better widgets coming up, or is this just an expression of the inability to protect non-compiled client side code?

Yahoo! UI Library

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Current style in web design

herzigma — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:06:18 +0000

Something to read through more carefully – who wants to look at last year’s web pages?

Current style in web design