Preview of a new WordPress theme

November 30th • 3 Comments • Under: Sidenotes

I am currently working on a new WordPress theme. The reason for doing it is a recent observation regarding the blog design — scrolling large lists of blog posts discourages from exploring individual (and often older) blog entries. Long list of articles are acceptable in archive pages, but the homepage should always be the simplest point for navigation. Do you have any name suggestions?

Introducing and explaining the nature of light

November 27th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes

Amazing and entertaining lectures by the outstanding Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman — explaining how the physicists try to view and understand the world. This is also why I love blackboard and chalk.

Nanoblog, Tumblelog or Asides

November 23rd • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes

Name it how ever you prefer, but that is indeed true that writing regular posts or blessays takes hours while ideas and cool things are all over my mind. Let’s see how this works out. p.s. using MiniPosts plugin by Erigami Scholey-Fuller.

How Graphic is the Web Design, and How Web is the Graphic Design

November 22nd • No Comments • Under: Understanding Web, Web Critique • Tags: critique, Design

Sorry for such a long heading, but it is the question which by itself is an answer to those trying to understand how the web design is different from the graphic design.

Designer and writer Armin Vit recently asked “[W]hat web sites could be considered landmarks for our profession?”. Ideally one should be able to name

A visual solution that not only enables, but also transcends, the message to become memorable in the eyes and minds of viewers.

He lists few examples from the field of graphic design: “Milton Glaser’s Dylan poster. Paul Rand’s IBM logo. Paula Scher’s Public Theater posters. Massimo Vignelli’s New York subway map. Kyle Cooper’s Seven opening titles”. Read more »

New WordPress Theme: Sans–serif Racer

November 14th • 25 Comments • Under: Design Suggetions • Tags: Design, WordPress

While tweaking the Times Racer theme which is currently used in this blog, I was fascinated by how the sans-serif typeface and the aligned positioning of different elements made it look really harmonic and solid.

After hours of PHP, HTML and CSS trickery, the new theme was named Sans-serif Racer and ready for the release. It features unique border elements, light background shading and, similarly to Agneka Simple, one base color which can be easily adjusted. Read more »