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Great business cards

A great spread of business cards. Something for future TBS stuff?

http://dailypoetics.typepad.com/photos/business_cards_and_other_/p1010161_3.html

Leadership and trust

Spent this morning trawling over the informative words from boxes and arrows reading this article by James Kalbach titled The Art of Project Management. James is reviewing Scott Berkun’s book, (aptly titled) The Art of Project Management. James is pretty happy with the book, but the article is worth a read itself as a good summary and thinktank on Project Management itself.

SFSS - Style for style sake

As you may (or may not) see, this site has once again had somewhat of a facelift. We have decided of a style that is more typical of what we think this venture is; simple, non-complicated, cofffee oriented design. (mmm..coffee). Myles and I are style snobs. Simply put we are comfortable in our condescending approach to the apparent 'poor' choices of overpaid art directors making hasty visual choices while commanding budgets equivalent to the GDP of a small country.

However when enacting decisions for your own branding, its somewhat difficult to get it right - to divorce yourself from personal decisions to more practical ones. Initially we had this site styled to the max - somewhat like a surf magazine - style for style sake. At what point does style and design become totally worthless and over the top? I remember a lecturer at uni once noted that his most prized piece of design was cover page of a 1904 version of the King James Bible.

A familiar project continues....

I have been tweaking around some designs for the past few weeks - one of the harder things I find with the creative process is the notion of stopping and deciding on ones creation; and secondly actually chosing the monent in which to create. Last night I was working on some branding for this site and after staring at my computer for a few hours, I had a rush of ideas, prompted by by rubbish bin (the stuff in the bin - not the bin itself).

Anyway I will post a couple of screenshots here of some of the designs...

A familiar project...

Two Brown Shoes will soon start the complex, yet fun redevelopment of www.sydneystormchasers.com

Sydney Storm Chasers first appeared in 1997 at Thunderstuck storm chasing designed by Ben Quinn (responsible for Brisbane Storm Chasers Homepage : a time when websites were labeled with 'homepage'). In '99 the page was redesigned into Sydney Storm Chasers, with James Harris and myself coming on board. In early 2002, the current site of the Sydney Storm Chasers was lauched and in its somewhat fragile setup has been cataloging storm chasing accross NSW since.

iPod-me generation

I wandered out this morning with two goals in mind.
Numero Uno: To get rid of the persistent mop of hair firmly swarming on my cranium;
Numero Duo: To buy an iPod and leave the somewhat glofied group of people that did not own a digtial music device ( from what I have been told that group is down to single figures....)

All jokes aside - as I wandered through the department store with a plethora of entertainment devices - including the now defunct photo iPod, personal DVD players (am i the only own who likes to watch movies on large tv screens) digital cameras the size of hearing aids, and portable picture viewers (yes...i am also bemused...) - I wondered the future of the prized entertainment possesion. Over the past few years we have been bombarded with all matter of goodies - how will this evolve considering the short history of their existence. We have seen the laptop become smaller, more functional and less expensive over the past 5 years. Can this trend to be mirrored into personal entertainment? How long before all of these devices are merged into a format that is universally recognised (remember the halcyon days of the address book on early pc's being quite seperate to email) I suppose this is already happening with the mobile phone.... soon we will classify a phone to be 'basic' when it only has a camera, with an mp3 player and it only has a colour screen.

fixed width or scaled

Fixed with webapges - think - look kewl. Perhaps its got to do with the way theya re layed out and look proportionally the same accross different screens. I have seen very few scalable sites that I have enough 'punch'.

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