Throwing Darts
On my way home from work, a thing about design occurred to me. As a designer, you may find the perfect design in your first shot, just as you may hit the bullseye the first time you ever throw a dart. But to hit the bullseye (or even the board) consistently, only time and countless [...]
Twitter Keeps Resetting My Password
For the past two days, I’ve woken up to between 3 and 10 password-reset emails from Twitter, which indicate Twitters been involed in some kind of off-site phishing attempt. Are you getting these? My research has led me to sites that claim your password is too insecure (password is not a secure password) and other [...]
Scandinavian After All
In a visit that would turn out to be much more appreciated than was expected, the Girlfriend and I flew to Thailand a few weeks ago. As it turns out, there’s a lot more to that country than meets the eye, certainly enough to merit a travelog.
The stay was just under two weeks at a [...]
This Blog Is Now HTML5
After having been convinced of the simpler boons of HTML5 by James, last night I finally understood the more long-term boons by reading this piece by Jeffrey Zeldman. Shortly after, I converted this blog from XHTML to HTML51. It involved changing:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/1">
… to:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html dir="ltr" [...]
Sonic Youth At Malmo Konsthall
I took a brief trip to Sweden today, to see Sonic Youths expo, “Sensational Fix”. It’s a free expo and you can see it until the 20th of september (free entry) and as with all things Sonic Youth, it was noisy, wierd and full of awesome.
Dejligt Means Nice In Danish
Just a week ago, I finally jotted down the last lines of code for what’s about to become my only “corporate” website: Dejligt. There’s all sorts of new stuff there which I’ve been working on for the last year. It even sports an ajaxified version of Wordpress which is totally less userfriendly but should hopefully [...]
Through The Looking Glass, Or How My Great Macbook Adventure Was All Too Brief
I had heard of it before. I had even seen the wonder for myself. The 15” unibody Macbook Pro. Cut from a single piece of aluminum, ornamented with unicorn horn and cooled only by dodo tears. It was a one of a kind machine, and no other laptop in the world could compare. If I [...]
From The Archives: Creating Smoke In Photoshop From Scratch
Using Photoshop and a specific technique, it’s rather easy to create something that looks like smoke or fog—from scratch. It’s not as good as actual smoke photographed on a black background, but it’s much easier to come by. Here’s the trick…
My first article to almost hit Digg.com, it’s still getting quite a few hits.
Almost Two Years Ago
Come May 2009, it’ll have been two years since I stopped doing installments. That’s what I called them; monthly graphical explorations on various themes. I made 5 illustrations every month, for six years. One of them looked like this:
You can click the little star icon in the image above. View full-size
There are 360 other images [...]