Category Archive: design concepts

The latest design concepts and abstract design thoughts.

Selling Space vs White Space

Selling Space vs White Space

I've recently made my first foray into designing ecommerce sites. After years of sculpting pixels for news, polling and data interfaces, I now find myself ...

 

Handcrafted CSS Review

Handcrafted CSS Review

Due to an excellent talk at An Event Apart last year, I started following Dan Cederholm. He seemed to epitomize the kind of designer I ...

 

Mixing It Up

Mixing It Up

Sometimes people can be their own worst critics. I have this habit of immediately being fascinated with whatever I have designed or painted, and then ...

 

Supporting Stories

Supporting Stories

I've recently come to the realization that I often take design more seriously than I'm supposed to. Great designers are simply supporting stories. Every typeface, ...

 

“I Don’t Like Code”

“I Don’t Like Code”

Most design schools have put together a curriculum that focuses on the "Principles of Design" with the assumption that the same principles apply regardless of ...