Web Design Survey from A List Apart

Not much is known about what we do or the people who do it. Take the survey and let’s find out.

Great wine blog - quaffability

This blog is perfect for the wine novice that typically shops at Trader Joes and doesn’t want to spend too much.

Bombay Duck

A continuing obsession of mine - chandeliers. Some nice ones here at Bombay Duck.

Web Standards = Web Craft Quality

An excellent article about web standards. Andy Rutledge tackles why so many misconceptions exist among web professionals when it comes to “web standards” or ” w3c compliance.” His answer, a bad choice in nomenclature. “So how about we redefine the case for Web standards for what it really is: the case for Web craft quality.”

Also worth reading is a follow-up to an email he received in response to his article. The email is a painful read, but a common misconception among some designers whom equate design with creativity and focus purely on the visual side of things. “Thinking of Web design as merely something visual is to think of an ocean as something blue, featureless, and flat. For both the oceans and the Web, there’s an entire, rich ecosystem below the surface that has specific requirements.”

An Annual Report For Life

Th Feltron 2006 Annual Report is an inventive piece that chronicles one man’s life in the form of an annual report.

A modern quilt…

It’s a cloudy, sleepy, San Francisco morning. The kind where you can never seem to get warm…anyway, it got me thinking about quilts and my plan to make one. I started looking around for inspiration and found Denise Schmidt quilts. I love the modernist touch she brings to this old tradition.

Crafty Geometry

Mathematicians are knitting and crocheting to visualize complex surfaces and shapes. Check out the article and book coming out this spring Making Mathmatics With Needlework.

Sarasota Architectural Salvage

SAS has some interesting pieces at reasonable prices. These three ‘great metal globes‘ are $195 and would make a very dramatic statement in any home.

Whimsical Lighting - Challieres, Paris

Leave it to the French to come up with such eccentric lighting. I love the bright playful pallettes they’ve used for what looks like rope chandeliers? The birdcage lamp speaks for itself.

Richard Sweeney

Richard Sweeney

Amazing paper sculptures!