Information Architects: Web Design is 95% Typography
Oliver Reichenstein argues Web Design is 95% Typography and points to some resources on Web typography.
December 13, 2008
November 3, 2008
Downtown Bicycle Rack Winners
The Downtown Austin Alliance has announced the winners of its bicycle rack competition. None of the winners were what I expected, steel tubes bent into kitschy shapes. Instead, the winners explore a variety of textures and materials, drawing inspiration from nature and cycling. You can see each of the winners in the pdf here, but I’m fond of Karen Armstrong’s Elephant Ears.
September 16, 2008
Schtock
Schtock is a blog-like site produced by an employee of a stock-photo service who creates collages from some of the stranger images in the collection. When I spent a lot of time looking at stock photos, I often thought of creating a blog of weird and unusual stock items, but these collages take it to a whole new level.
August 21, 2008
Austin to get funky bike racks?
If you wish Austin had funky bike-racks like the David Byrne designs going up in New York, you may just get your wish. The Downtown Austin Alliance has a call out for “unique, durable artwork to serve as bike racks” along Congress Ave. downtown. It’s too bad there isn’t a permalink for that announcement, but if you’re a designer, you can download a .pdf of the call here.
Perhaps this is an opportunity for BikeSnobNYC’s dream of a pirate bike rack to become reality, although I imagine the winners will be more predictable Austin motifs like guitars, bats, or pot leaves.