One of the most interesting musical minds of the past century, Brian Eno, visited Vancouver on January 10th to share An Illustrated Talk. A good friend picked up a ticket for me and I was glad to go. I left the Vogue theatre that night completely inspired. I was particularly impressed with how effective Eno…
This year I read the bestseller book “Good to Great” by Jim Collins. Along with a fair share of buzzwords and hype are some great bits of advice for entrepreneurs. Here’s a summary of the book broken down by chapter. Chapter 1: Good is the Enemy of Great The profound point that Collins makes is…
When you set out to create a business the first step should be inspiring, thoughtful and fun. Although most proper businesses have all started with the creation of a business plan they tends to be a slow and tedious process. But it can be done differently, a business plan can be exciting, emotional and filled…
Over the past year I’ve been researching how to design for Multitouch devices after our experience of designing the Beluga Whale exhibit for the Vancouver Aquarium. I’ve pulled what I think are last year’s ten best posts for your enjoyment. 1. 5 Questions for Planning a Multitouch Interface 2. Creating Intuitive Gestures Using Object Orientation…
On September 8th, 2010 Alex Steffen gave a lecture to the public at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. If the name is unfamiliar to you, Alex Steffen is someone you should read about. He edited the book WorldChanging, a 600 page: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is a groundbreaking compendium of…
This little PhotoWall project is an effort to understand more about the Flickr API and also see what is possible with Javascript and CSS3.
“One of the principles of durable typography is always legibility; another is something more than legibility: some earned or unearned interest that gives its living energy to the page.” – Robert Bringhurst
More brilliance from one of my all time favourite illustrators
If you design & develop websites and use a mac you’ll most definitely need to test code locally. A large percentage of today’s open source content management systems are built on Apache, PHP, MySQL and there are two common ways to make those three things work in Os X. The first method is by using…