September 19th, 2008
My colleague Tobias Unger and I are in Jena at the moment. At 3 p.m. we’ll be holding a presentation on “Web 2.0 im Klassenzimmer – Ideen und Ausblicke”.
If you are interested, you can have a look at the Powerpoint slides and the handout in the About section. Scroll down for Presentations and you will find them.
September 2nd, 2008
Well, well, well, well, well… What’s this all about?
Google release a browser today and of course everybody is downloading it and commenting on it. I have to, too. Do I? I’d rather write about the high tides of hype that we are able to surf on once again.
August 19th, 2008
It’s time for a new edition of Interesting Links.
Nick La has gathered some very nice Single-Page Portfolio Sites at his Web Designer Wall. Some interesting concepts and a lot of high end use of web dev techniques. I personally love We Bleed Design for its fancy PNG effects and Fröjd for its simplicity.
Then, there is the Reverse Graffiti Project. If you don’t know what reverse graffiti is, go and have a look at the video. Incredible!
For those of you who haven’t heard this already: NASA has their photos online on a new website called NASA Images (you would have guessed) powered by Internet Archive. If you’re not into astronomy, you will still like the trippy images anyway…
And finally, especially for my students, there’s the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, “a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics.”
Well, isn’t there something here for everyone of you?
August 7th, 2008
Ooooh, am I excited or what? My pixel font Plastik received a Top Pick from the folks at FontStruct. Thank you very much.
The font is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. So if you want to use it feel free to do so and follow the rules.
You can also have a look at all my other fontstructions.
June 26th, 2008
No no no, not what you think. Business Week (sic!) publishes an article this week called The Ten Commandments of Web Design. They had asked gurus ranging from John Maeda to Jeffrey Zeldman to give their input into this. Do we all now have to print this out in decorative letters on precious paper and pin it to the wall above our 24″ iMacs?
May 28th, 2008
It’s time to mention some of the most interesting mixes I found on the web in this special edition of “Interesting Links”. All of them are more or less electronic and it could be that if you visit the links they have already vanished…
April 29th, 2008
I am currently teaching a course on Web Design at the University of Marburg. The first sessions were used to build paper prototypes of a fictitious redesign of MySpace.com (not that they need one… 
). I found the submissions my students came up with quite good considering they’re not even design students. Here are some photos.
Read the whole post…
April 18th, 2008
I’ve written about FontStruct the other day, my favourite web application (sorry, Flickr). Here is what you can do with it.
I’ve selected my personal top ten of the fonts which have been uploaded so far. Read the whole post…
April 9th, 2008
There’s been a lot of fuzz going on about the necessity of the Acid3 test. It was about time that someone wrote about this all with some soberness.
Here are some articles which I guess are worth reading about the tests that push browsers to the limit: Read the whole post…
April 3rd, 2008
Every once in a while there’s an online application which really blows your mind. And here’s this while’s mind-blowing online application: