Once in a while there are people on flickr who post pictures that I would pick as a favourite every time. Janne Parviainen is one of them. He paints with light and the photography resulting from that is just incredible. I let the results speak for themselves.

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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?

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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Hey, I just found out that my favourite web application Flickr has improved its screenshow function. And by “improved” I mean IMPROVED! Full screen, on black, super functionality. I love it.

See for yourself by looking at one of my sets there.

Anyone for updates? Ok, let’s go…

My site of course, as you can see. All XHTML 1.0 Strict and PHP and some spring colors as well. Hope you enjoy.

Then, there’s Manuel Kaufmann’s new site showcasing his photography. Recommended!

And finally, Amon Tobin has a new album out on the 5th of March and his site is all about strange sound exploration. You need to have a look!

I’m currently scanning some old photos like the ones I took in the south of England in 1995. So far so good, but really, the scanner I’m using isn’t all for negatives. I think there are far better ones.

Here we go again:

1. Inspiration resource par excellence: 100 beste Plakate
2. A very nice set of illustrations by Alberto Cerriteño
3. Very good and inspiring: Toxi’s images on flickr