Refresh Columbia & Columbia Adobe User Group are joining together tonight to celebrate Photoshop’s 20th anniversary. As part of the festivities, we’ve been asked to dig up some of our oldest and wackiest PSD files. Below are a few of the most bizarre Photoshop creations I found in my backup…
For years I’ve been dreaming of a day when I could write HTML and CSS without the limitations of Internet Explorer 6. That dream became a reality on March 1st when I left my previous job at a web agency and started working with MailChimp. They phased out our support…
The middle of March is always my favorite time of year. The days start to get longer, flowers start to bloom and web workers from all corners of the world flock to Austin, TX for South by Southwest Interactive. On March 12th, I’ll be making my 4th trek to Austin…
Have you ever right-clicked on a website graphic in Firefox expecting to find that handy “View Background Image” context menu item only to realize it wasn’t there because the element you right-clicked on was a link? No? Well it happens to me all the time. A little over a year…
If you’ve been playing Gowalla for any length of time, you’ve probably already discovered Ben Dodson’s Gowalla Tools. This companion site for the popular location-based iPhone game features several helper tools for players (like myself) who are trying to collect all the virtual items in the game. Of the tools…
Last week I had an opportunity to give a talk about design to 25 people here in Columbia and then again the very next day in Atlanta to a group of about 100 web designers, developers, & marketers. Most of the talks that I’ve given in the past have focused…
Have you ever started writing a comment that turned into a paragraph? Then you started wondering at what point you were just starting to get annoying. That’s what happened when I started writing out my reply to Elliot Jay Stock’s first thoughts on the iPad. Instead of hitting the big…
Last week I received a completely unsolicited t-shirt in the mail from a company called Bookmans Entertainment Exchange. It’s black with just a mouse pointer & “wysiwtf” in a monospaced typeface on the front. I love it. The back of the shirt simply says “you are now following @bookmans“, and…
If you were to crack the glass on your 3G iPhone, should you? A.) Grab a tub of Ben & Jerry’s and cry hysterically for days on end B.) Decide you’re not smartphone worthy and go back to a RAZR C.) Get all MacGyver and buy a DIY replacement glass…
In the graphic design field, many people depend on the annual AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries to see where they stand among other graphic arts professionals. A List Apart’s Survey for people who make websites provides a similar service for the web industry. Sure, AIGA includes some web…