Denver is What’s Next
It’s Dexter’s fault.
Chatting on the street after work, testing out the new phone 1, we run into Hugh. Hugh mentions he’s looking for some help getting a site going for the upcoming conference and next thing you know (har!) Dayjob is on the job. Check out aiganext.com
The next symbol is a rectangle, twisting and folding, but to me it feels a bit more like a circle. Back in the heady days of 1996, when I decided that this web thing was for me, I bought myself an Academic version of Photoshop 3 (“School of Hard Knocks” edition), a copy of David Siegel’s Creating Killer Websites. David’s nearly slipped into obscurity now, but he opened my mind enough to realize that this whole words on a page thing went back farther than Mosiac)—if you wanted to do it right, there was a lot of stuff you needed to learn.
But the thing was, there wasn’t much out there on the fundamentals of design. So, I hunkered down in my one-bedroom house in Sterling, CO, where my nights were filled with The Elements of Typographic Style, The Form of the Book, and Looking Closer; my days were filled with HTML and Photoshop 3 (man, have you checked out this new layers feature? Wow!).
Thanks, boys. This time the drinks are on me.
(special thanks to Dan Treiman, who able to pitch in heriocally at the last minute to help us get the interactive screensaver working.)
1 An exchange between Mr. Roeth and my girlfriend:
PC: Man, these pictures look terrible.
TR: You want to know why that is? YOU’RE TAKING PICTURES WITH A PHONE.
Posted by Sean Porter on October 9th, 2007