graphic design, art, typography and architecture

Well, I've been away from blogging for a week. I wonder if anyone noticed? ;) Owing to work commitments during last week, I couldn't find a minute in which to write something; and it's not as though I'm without ideas for posts. Well, as soon as I finish the redesign of my biggest (and best--just in case they're reading this) client's web site, and moving dozens and dozens of sites to my new host, Media Temple, I will be back. Here are some posts still in draft form, that I'll publish soon. Something to whet your appetites, I hope: "The Day the Web ... [more]

I'd been thinking for some time about changing the design of this site; 2-, 3-, 4- columns, understated or bold, and which features and plugins to include/exclude. I also started to build my own theme from scratch, then came across the Grid Focus theme by Derek Punsalan. The old 2-column theme wasn't, I felt, making good use of the available space, and 4-columns melt my brain with info-overload. A quick look at my logs, revealed that just about no-one uses 800*600 screen resolution to view this site, so I settled on three columns. I've hacked the theme and added a ... [more]

I often come across little snippets that I want to share with people, but they don't really merit a full-length post, and they don't always fit neatly into the design theme of this blog. So, I considered starting another blog which would be a repository for all those snippets, bits and pieces, etc. The snippets I have in mind are a new pieces of design or architecture I like, an interesting or thought-provoking post on another blog, a snippet of code (PHP, CSS, JavaScript) that might be useful - that kind of thing. So I thought I'd introduce the "Snippet-Post" - ... [more]

Apologies for the recent paucity of posts. I'm redesigning the entire blog. Almost finished. I'll be back soon with a vengeance! Please let me know what you think of the design thus far. Both critics and apologists welcome. [more]

The old redsil design was beginning to look a little tired, so I'm working on something a little different. It's also an opportunity to work with new textures and brushes in Photoshop CS (I'm really looking forward to Photoshop CS3 for Mac because CS2 is killing me slowly (emphasis on slooooooooowly! - Intel Macs and Adobe products really don't get a long). Anyway, ultimately, the aim is to have three redsil designs, whereby the user can choose his design preference for the site from a menu (um, where should I put that menu?); I'm thinking the current Grunge/concrete theme, something ... [more]

I'm teaming up with GRAPH design (a small design agency with big ideas, headed by Mr and Mrs Matsuoka) in Takamatsu, to offer web design services. They have some great quality products, and offer a broad range of design services. So if you're interested in using GRAPH design for your next design project, then take a look at their site. [more]

There's a new library on the block, and it looks pretty good. It's certainly pretty easy to use and includes lots of widgets - one of the most impressive being the Grid Widget. Now making sortable "tables" is easy! Here's an example of how easy it really is (besides the data array, which you most likely fetch dynamically from your database, there are only a few lines of code): Ext.onReady(function() { var myData = [ ['Apple',29.89,0.24,0.81,'9/1 12:00am'], ['Ext',83.81,0.28,0.34,'9/12 12:00am'] ]; var ds = new Ext.data.Store({ proxy: new Ext.data.MemoryProxy(myData), reader: new Ext.data.ArrayReader({id: 0}, [ {name: 'company'}, {name: 'price', type: 'float'}, {name: 'change', type: 'float'}, {name: 'pctChange', type: 'float'}, {name: 'lastChange', type: 'date', dateFormat: 'n/j ... [more]