Site Crit (Stewdio)
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@moamoa: Thanks :) I don't think of it as anti-design at all. In fact I think it's very pro-design. (Perhaps anti-decoration.) Certainly one can argue against this, but shouldn't design be clean, crisp, and see-through? My favorite design things are usually brutally minimal. Give me well-gridded old school Swiss typography over "distressed" or "grungy" or "glossy" crap any day. (Sorry, that's my ongoing one-man rant.)
Thanks on Terre Natale too. That thing had to be prototyped and produced on such an amazingly tight schedule! We actually had to write the animation framework from scratch to make it do the backflips we needed. Some description here : http://stewdio.org/blog/2008/10/…
@bort: Yea. Got to keep the code clean and documented. That's part of my schtick. I mean, I code totally messy like a drunken cowboy to get a demo up ASAP, but then you have to rein it in and make it tight. Code whitespace itself will tell you just as much about an author's personality as their algorithm's logic.
The back-end is all custom PHP / MySQL / apache hacks plus a generic WordPress install for the blog. In the process of debugging a Ruby on Rails / MySQLite replacement for the whole site. (But currently too broke to spring for a Rails server with actual horsepower.) If I fall into a load of cash I might skip Rails altogether and spend time thinking about an Arc web framework. Ruby might become "the standard" in the next year. But if you want to be the uber nerd and jump the curve just hack in Arc. All the kids in 2015 are going to love it.
- stewido. maybe the anti-design statement was a bit inconvenient. I didn´t meant it in a negative way...moamoa
- but still the minimal things could be a bit more designed (typecolour combinations/moamoa
- probably the blue links are my biggest problem, ;)moamoa
- reminds me on flickr facebook google.. etcmoamoa