Category Archives: Visual Design

Websota.com – Minnesota Web Design Gallery Launches

I love the MN design community. It’s filled with people that go out and build stuff to scratch their own itch. The latest example of this: Websota – built by the FiveTechnology team 1.
“Aaron Weiche of Five [Technology] wanted a home for the great web design work close to home here in Minnesota.”
There are [...]

MN-based Parenting Startup, Tumblon.com, Looking for Designer & Marketing/PR Mgr

Tumblon a new Minneapols-based parenting startup is looking for a Visual Designer and a Marketing/PR manager
Their blog: http://blog.tumblon.com/
Contact Jonathan Dahl for more information.

New FlashMN Leadership starting with a CS3 Demo

There’s been a change in leadership at Minnesota’s Flash User Group. Nate Pacyga had been leading the group for a while and decided to step down as manager. He put out a message to the group in the hopes that he’d find someone to take the reigns. Luckily, two people were interested in managing the [...]

Nobody Posted about CS3 yet?

Adobe officially Announced CS3 today, but I assume some of us have already had our peek at the new features they were rolling out in new versions of Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc. (Sorry Freehand and ImageReady Fans.)
If you managed to miss this somehow:
http://www.adobe.com/creativelicense/
Go ahead and Preorder today, but I don’t think they’ve [...]

How a web designer can save the environment:

Create all your web sites using a black background.

Fun With Error Messaging

A while back I was window shopping online at Ikea when I came across their Error message. Instead of feeling frustrated or angry, I was delighted to see this:

Some Web Design Firms Just Don’t Get It

Congratulations, you are a successful up and coming design firm. You’re stylish, trendy, and looking for new hires because business is good.
However:
High-energy branding/design firm seeks a talented, creative Web designer proficient in Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop and other Web design programs. Kamper is a fun, dynamic and growing company with a lot of opportunities for hard [...]

Strib Redesign

As a St. Pauler, I’ve long tried to keep allegiance to the Pioneer Press. Alas, I’ve found it to be increasingly vapid and falling far behind the Strib in terms of good local reporting. I still support it, as it’s a rare thing in this day in age to have a city with two major [...]

AIGA-MN, Open for Criticism

In a bold, internet-savvy move, the AIGA-MN is letting everyone critique the work for this years’ Exhibit A: Interactive Showcase.
At the time of this writing, you could criticize a number of things: the lack of a background color on the website, that all the website entries are shown as static screenshots, that an entry’s thumbnail [...]

Amazon Experimenting With Simplified Interface

Yesterday, while doing some testing on Jen’s computer, I hit Amazon and to my surprise, I saw the new, more text-based header. Back on my machine, still the old header full of tabs.
My sister said she gets the simplified interface after signing-in.
About a year ago, I heard a rumor Amazon was experimenting with a [...]