My initial forays into application building with Ruby on Rails proved much too complicated both in the aspect of learning ROR in such a short time and the amount of coding involved in creating the simple feature set that I required. Continue reading
Every designer wants a project that gives them total control, The client that gives carte blanche to time, money and resources. but this almost never happens. What happens is that a carefully and probably tightly negotiated budget has been decided and a tight timeframe has been enforced. Is there a way to get any client closer to being your perfect client. Continue reading
I recently read, or heard, a statement about origami, I cannot remember the source so I will paraphrase as best as possible. Sculpting in clay is the creation of something beautiful by adding elements, sculpture in marble is creating something beautiful be taking elements away, while origami, sculpting with paper, is repositioning what you have to make it more beautiful. Continue reading
I was always against the idea of electronic books because I love to read. I love the smell of books, the texture of the paper and the sight of a bookshelf filled from end to end. The idea of having one device to hold all the books that it takes me a bookshelf to hold seemed to me to disrespect the idea of what books are, they are a gateway to an imaginary world and ereaders seemed to cheapen them. Continue reading