The Lighthouse Keeper’s cat

What and when …. by Swardley on blog.gardeviance.org

….a friend asked me to recommend a project management methodology for IT. I wasn’t trying to be awkward, but my answer was “that depends”….*

read more on blog.gardeviance.org

Omnigraffle wireframe stencils

get them on konigi.com

and I either have to redo my categories and tags or separate my Multiple Personalities into 2 blogs… that would be 4 blogs in total ….

ooops…

*) No, I do not have any issues with against agile. I just have a HYPE alergy

Sometimes I have to remind myself why I am actually living here :-). Picture taken last Sunday while driving from Christchurch to Arthur’s Pass. More on Flickr…

informationarchitects.jp on how to provide feedback:

No hate (we know we suck), no love (we know you still love us), no novels (we know that you know a lot).

http://informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-4-final-beta/

After a month of being totally stuck in my daytime job, I finally found some time for inspiration browsing ^_^… and look what I found!

some skull forest awaken
gocco print edition of 30
20 x 15 cm

Could be bought here - Price: $50.00

Found on Flickr and I love it!

“Born In Hobart, Australia. Works and lives in Melbourne Australia … A self taught artist. Ghostpatrol has moved from the field of stencil art to exhibit his illustration based work worldwide. He currently resides in Melbourne at his ‘Mitten Fortress’ studio. His work ranges form fine ink drawing, graffiti, commissioned murals and soft sculpture.” From the bio on his website.

More info: Ghostpatrol website, Flickrset and a video documantary about him and miso… Enjoy!

I love Flickr.

I always did. I pay for Flickr. I respect the rules on Flickr. I got in contact with amazing artist via Flickr. I keep in contact with friends far away and next door via Flickr. I print my business cards with Moo via Flickr. I blog about art I find at Flickr…

Okay in short i am in LOVE…

I am not a social networking type. Not in the real world, not on the internet. I start to enjoy twitter though…but this is another post.

I am usually critical of most internet hypes and interaction website designs. Most internet services make me just mad and angry… very angry… even most of the ones I am involved in ^_^…

So why Flickr?

Now - other than in the real world where I always fall in love with the wrong guy - there are many good reasons to love Flickr.

The team behind Flickr manages to provide a service which actually knows what it does and does it very well. You store and share images.

Graphic design

The design never gets in your way and never tries to outmatch your content. It even makes your content look better.

Just think about how fantastic - and rare - that is. And while doing this it preserves one of the best and most significant brands online, with just (a quite small) logo, 2 lead colours, typo in one font, black and white and shades of grey.

Easily done? Try selling something like this to one of your clients (or mine).

Interaction design

You never have to search for action buttons. They are there just above your content. Titles and descriptions can be added directly. click > edit > save.

The complexity of the tools in use grows with the complexity of the task, as does the interface design. “Organize” (working with hundred of photos) uses a very different interaction design approach and language than any other page.

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Note: These are my views. They do not reflect the views of my clients, my colleagues, my friends, my family, my company or, if you want to argue, me. Also, these are my current opinions. I reserve the right to change my mind.

Tal Leming in his contribution to the discussion around the possibility of web pages containing embedded fonts
… this conveys all I ever wanted to say about blogging ^_^ … and life and everything else … pure poetry …

BTW good read as well…

70×100 cm Wasn’t Me [99 USD] or 50×70 cm Wasn’t Me [79 USD] available at www.555design.org.

Instant Love! Found via Twitter and shanalogic.com. The Photographer and graphic designer Abe Age is putting a layer of decay and grunge over his imagery indicating a story behind his subjects…

This is actually nothing “new” but I really like this old toys artwork…

Take care world outside.

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P.S. He defiantly should get somebody to review his website… Sorry will try to shut up… but this one is really a showcase on how to not do it :-)…