Create vintage-look photos the old-fashioned way. In Photoshop. Ahem.
Fri 24 Jun 2011 1 note | Posted by rocketpilot
Create vintage-look photos the old-fashioned way. In Photoshop. Ahem.
Thu 22 Apr 2010 | Posted by rocketpilot
Found after reading a comments thread on Mezzoblue, on a topic dear to my heart.
Wed 21 Apr 2010
Panic Homepage Countdown Now that’s how you market an app launch. Classy.
Tue 2 Mar 2010 44 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
The world has become so complex that simple tasks are nearly impossible.
A couple of good posts from Ars Technica about attempts to improve accessibility in gaming, particularly for colour-blind players.
Mon 16 Nov 2009 | Posted by rocketpilot
Khoi Vinh, the CSS grid-master, announces an incredibly elegant new Wordpress theme based on the design of his blog, Subtraction. Fantastic work.
Wed 28 Oct 2009
Everyone’s raving about this new Hallowe’en cover for the New Yorker, and it’s certainly good (I like the touch of all the parents staring into their iPhones as the kids go trick-or-treat) but I don’t get the extremity of the adulation.
Maybe I’m having a slow morning. What am I missing?
Mon 28 Sep 2009
TGS 2009: The worst logo of the show Joystiq uncover a particularly dreadful piece of game logo design. Utterly incomprehensible.
Mon 21 Sep 2009 | Posted by rocketpilot
I love essays about the design process, but given the sheer complexity of the work under discussion, I could have done with something more … book-length.
Incredible technique.
My next step with this redesign is to add Tumblr “notes”, which are a list of who’s reblogged or “liked” an individual post.
Unfortunately the documentation for this feature is a little sparse. And badly copyedited: “Rendered on permalink pages this post has notes”. Sigh.
The slick Notes functionality on sites like this is what I’m after but I’m not sure how much of that is provided out of the box and how much the designer implemented with Javascript. More investigation required.
Nick Caldwell is a professional web designer and unprofessional writer who thinks far too much about aesthetics, the contemporary sociopolitical condition, video games, Doctor Who, and spaceships. This is his Tumblelog.
