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Goodbye Sploid…

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Last week Sploid closed its doors. I’m not upset only because it was an entertaining take on news and managed a great balancing act between tabloid and real news.

I’m also upset because I can no longer enjoy its great design. It’s looks nothing like a typical blog:
lots of images laid out on a grid instead of just a list of articles. Big, SCREAMING headlines. It’s a lesson that there are ways to make a good, useable design while not looking like wordpress template with new colors.

my first print design…

Thursday, August 17th, 2006


You might not know this but I’m a web designer by trade. Though I was trained in (and have a degree in) multimedia design, I basically stayed away from anything print. Too much to know about colors and scales and dpi and etc. But I couldn’t hide forever and today I received my first design in the mail — the ibiblio business card.

And the font is too small.

Oh well, lesson learned.