I’ve finally gotten around to revamping the art/design section of Blank Slate:
It’s running off a zenphoto installation, rethemed to fit …
The Archives: Design
Note: This isn't quite functional yet, but I'm working on it... :) -bmc 4.5.08
Came across The Rather Difficult Font Game and gave it a whirl. And I somehow scored 31 out of 34, which I didn’t expect, but it made me …
3. Old and new
Time for a change. Yesterday while watching general conference, I got an itch to redesign this blog. Here’s what it used to look like:…
There’s a new camcorder on the block. As written about in David Pogue’s New York Times review (thanks to 37signals for the link), enter the Flip:
The …
The Church has a beautiful new website about the Savior, JesusChrist.lds.org:
It’s all about Jesus Christ and it’s good. …
After three months of delay, I’ve finally finished restructuring Blank Slate so I can push the redesign live:
Finally. :) …
7. Head to head
Wow. This is awesome. Like, mind-bogglingly cool. It’s Johnny Lee’s hack for the Wii that uses the remote’s infrared camera to do head tracking (thanks to …
I came across A.viary not too long ago, and I just have to say that if it ends up done well, dang, it’s going to be sweet. Image …
Out with the old…
Last year I wrote 355 blog posts, which seemed like a lot until I went back to my 2006 New Year’s post and found that I …
I was at the bookstore the other day and saw a copy of Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Look a little familiar?…
I’ve gotten a little design-giddy in the last couple of days, and this morning I redid Riverglen Press:
Better, I think. :) …
Lost track of time this morning while redesigning the blankslate.net dashboard:
So now I’m going to be late for work unless …
15. Cry unto him
One of the members of my stake presidency invited me to go to a pre-premiere showing of a new documentary film his company is distributing. It’s the sequel to …
I’ve had a beastly head cold (like a jackhammer on the brain) since Monday afternoon, and little time to sleep, so I took today off to just sleep. But …
17. Lingua franca
It’s way late and I really ought to be in bed, but I just got back from dinner at my family’s. But then again, I’ll be with them forever, …
18. In and out
Here at work we have a digital punch system for clocking in and out (as well as a card slider outside the lab, but I never use that). The …
My arm is sore. From playing Nintendo, no less. Good gravy.
By “Nintendo” I’m referring to the Wii, of course. Saturday evening we had a bachelor party for …
[Cross-posted from BenjaminCrowder.com for somewhat obvious reasons.]
For my Middle English class today we visited Special Collections. I’ve been there several times before (we went there five or six …
21. Apple of my eye
Ho, hum, what shall I write about today? I want to write about Douglas Callister’s devotional address yesterday, but I’m tired and won’t be able to do it justice. …
22. A will and a way
This morning after I left the temple, an idea came into my head. It looked roughly like this:
And now, eleven hours later (with an hour …
I got the proof copy of Project Cumorah yesterday at 5:15. It’s beautiful! Thick and hefty, to be sure, but it’s lovely. And you can now download …
Last night I watched The Inheritance, a Feature Films for Families movie based on the book by Louisa May Alcott. I liked it a lot. …
Two quickies for now: first, BenjaminCrowder.com got a minor facelift this morning. It looks a lot better (I think :)).
Second, when you do check it out, you may …
Crunch time is upon me here at work, which means working each evening for as long as I can. (I usually go till 7:30 or 8, so that I …
27. Librarythings
What shall I write about today? Well, for starters, the bookstore’s bargain sale ended 45 minutes ago, so I stopped by again earlier today and got four more books …
My friend came up with a cool collage from her trip to Europe this spring:
It’s a brilliant idea, really, compressing …
29. A dilemma
So, I like design (typography, bookmaking, etc.) and textual work (like with An Icelandic Primer). It gives me great joy and satisfaction.
I also like programming. I’ve done …
30. Ilihawswahili
As a follow-up, I did wake up at 5:00 this morning and studied Latin for half an hour. (Since I wasn’t able to get any books on Swahili in …
31. Halfpence seven
I just wrote a little Ruby on Rails app that pulls all my Top of the Mountains posts and comments from the database and exports them to HTML. When …
BenjaminCrowder.com is up. I’ll be changing the design around a lot, once school gets out, but for now the current theme will suffice. So, if the art, …
So I think I’m going to start another blog. ~gasp, shudder, sigh~ I’m not entirely sure yet, but I think it would be fitting to have a graphic design …
I’ve made some slight cosmetic changes:
Moved the time up to the byline area (it used to be down with the categories)
Edited the Simpletags plugin to add the Technorati icon
Revised the …
For those of you who come to the blog site itself (rather than reading it via a feed), you may have noticed a few slight hiccups this afternoon with the …
Okay, it’s their tacky joke, not mine. :) (See http://lilypond.org/web/switch/) So I was checking out the LilyPond site again today (I’ve been in a typographical mood …
I’ve often wondered what font the scriptures are printed in. Today, unexpectedly, I came across the answer via a comment on Katya’s blog, from #193 on the …
38. Catchdown
I’ve got a long list of 32 various topics to write about (in this blog alone, not to mention my other blogs), so I’m going to speed through it and …
39. Site designs
At work I’m redesigning the Immigrant Ancestors Project website. The first screenshot is what it looked like before (and still looks like at the moment), and the second …
40. Favorite font
For a long time Myriad Pro was my favorite font, and I still use it a lot, but Minion Pro has grown …
41. Symbol signs
The AIGA (I couldn’t find anywhere on their site that gave the meaning of the acronym, actually, but they’re graphic …
On my walk to school this morning I came up with ideas for unifying all of my websites’ visual appearance (as I’ve started to do with this site and …
43. A new look
If you’re visiting the site itself and not reading it via an RSS aggregator like Bloglines, you’ve probably already noticed the new look. (And if not, go check it …
44. A web day
At work today I designed a website for the Basque Family Heritage in the U.S.A. project, and this evening I redesigned TranslatingScripture.com (but neither is live yet — the …
Coming up with titles for these updates is notoriously hard. ~sigh~ Anyway, I took some time this morning to make the credit-card sized edition of the Plan of Salvation. …
46. More CSS designs
I’ve been looking through CSS Zen Garden some more, and here are some of the designs that impress/inspire/motivate me:
Burning (#43)
sub: lime (#46)
This Is Cereal (#57)
Springtime …
47. CSS
Yesterday I discovered CSS Zen Garden and it’s proving to be a fruitful source of inspiration. I realized that the reason I’ve had this designer’s block lately (for …
I intended to spend the day working on Translating Scripture, but somehow it didn’t happen and I’m still wondering what I actually did today. I did finish the Romanian …
Aaaaagh, I need more time!!!! So much to do and hardly enough time to do it all. I’ve edited most of the Translating Scripture chapters and will try …
I’ve been revamping the Irish Mormon History website today. Here’s what the website looked like (I did this design several months ago):
