There’s been a lot of talk about a new social media app for the iPad over the last few weeks. It’s great little app called Flipboard. The aim of the app is to take feeds from various news-related sites and your personal Twitter and Facebook feeds to create a print magazine-like presentation for the topics that you care most about. Since Flipboard made it’s public [...]

After being out of town for Comic-Con and some vacation time, it’s taken a bit to catch back up on life. I’ve got two reviews and some school stuff to finish up, but I didn’t want to miss out on the SiteoftheWeek this week. We have a fun site this week. It’s an interactive agency called Bowtie. Their site is just one page, but through [...]

Just got finished with the first 14mph publication. I spent a good amount of time last week taking photos for a new photo book, looking at the signs around the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA. This first book, MiceSigns, looks at a variety of signs from all over the Magic Kingdom. I took this as an opportunity to test the camera on the HTC Incredible [...]

Ok, there’s a little bias for this week’s SiteoftheWeek site. I’m sitting in the lobby of the Grand Californian Hotel at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. While sitting here at Disneyland is a good thing, I’m able to use this as a good excuse to feature the all new Disneyland.com. The crew at Disney updated the Disneyland site for the first time in AGES and it’s [...]

It’s Friday. Today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs held a press conference at Apple headquarters to discuss the iPhone 4 and all the negativity that’s been floating around the last few weeks. It’s been talked about since the iPhone 4 came out. The places where I’ve seen people with any clue about the situation with the iPhone antenna have said what Steve Jobs said in his [...]

I’ve seen this topic battered around the last few days and it’s been a interesting topic, especially as someone that works in a creative industry. Newsweek posted an article to their website entitled The Creativity Crisis, where they analyze research that claims that creativity in America is declining. Whyfor, you may ask? Pay No Attention to the Creative Behind the Curtain A lot of things [...]

It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these, but it’s time to start up the Site of the Week. This week, we have a fun, exceptionally well designed site. Fully Illustrated is the portfolio of Michael Heald, a designer from across the pond, who specializes in design, illustration, photography and branding, mainly in the gaming space. Hebills Fully Illustrated as a “new [...]

I have several pet peeves. One of them involves a small triangular sign that appears on roadsides periodically. Some of you may have seen it.       Now, for those that don’t know, that’s called a Yield Sign. According to the U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, a YIELD sign may be warranted: On the approaches to a through street [...]

As a designer and programmer, design and usability is always a touchy subject when you’re dealing with the Web. There are a lot of so-called “experts” out there that will tell you one thing and then another will come along and contradict it. When looking through any site dealing with design and usability, please keep in mind that 99% of the time, whatever is said [...]