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.
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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:
March 12th, 2008
Ich werde bei der GML2 Tagung in Berlin am 13. und 14. März zum Thema „Lerninhalte designen – Was Lehrende vom Web 2.0 lernen können“ ein Poster präsentieren. Weitere Infos gibt’s auf der Homepage der Tagung.
Das Poster wird dann auch noch mal als Blog-Eintrag auf ELearning-Blog.org zu finden sein. Pssst, wir planen den Launch entgültig zum 1. April (kein Scherz!).
Über Feedback zum Poster und zum Artikel würde ich mich sehr freuen.
February 15th, 2008
As a designer working in an academic environment you are used to sit in presentations and get a badly designed PowerPoint presentation which at best distracts from the speech someone is giving. I know this is happening all the time and why bother? Well, I can tell you why.
February 13th, 2008
I had to conduct a Bachelor final exam recently about brands and how brand names are developed. It was a linguistic thing rather than a design thing, but nevertheless I asked some designer questions as well.
Anyway, the candidate we examined was Philipp Quanz and he just pointed out to me that the final results of the European Logo Design Awards were quite interesting. I have to agree in various ways.
February 6th, 2008
Some more I’ve stumbled upon in the last view weeks… Haha, sorry about this.
http://toda.com/ which is about design and architecture and all that.
http://www.varywell.com/ which has a nice navigation.
http://www.mariolombardo.com/ who likes to do stuff with his hands.
Oh, and there is a competition going on at Slanted. So if you are into typography and like to do some fancy sh*t, that’s the place.
Update: Heavy Backpack (the site you need to know if you’re a designer, you know…) are running a link drive (I didn’t know what that was before, but anyway…). So I just want to mention how very cool and necessary they are and that everybody should have a look.
January 31st, 2008
I often asked myself in the past – as I’m sure have many many web designers – how such an ugly platform such as MySpace can have such a big success. Is it because it’s ugly? Is it because it’s easy to use? Is it because everybody does it?
Well, yes, some of all of that. But hey, wait a minute. Isn’t this Web 2.0? What about the wisdom of the masses. OK, or rather the taste of the masses
I was happy to see that the first subversive pages are appearing here and there, like this one (news pilfered from de-bug.de).
I’m going to look for many more account which do something like this…
January 28th, 2008
Finally, it’s here… Another Dorky Relaunch. I don’t know how many changes this homepage had in recent years. I guess it’s now version 15 or something like that.
I did some things to make the updates on this site easier, probably something you won’t see. What you will see however is the all new blog, in which I will try to post regularly. A new contact section will follow in the next weeks.
Hope you’ll enjoy. How long has it been since the last relaunch? Weeks, it feels…