Archive for the 'design' Category

CSS pseudo-class content before and after inheriting oddness

Monday, April 26th, 2010

hmmm. Since a few browsers now support content with :after and :before pseudo class, I thought I would try and use it for a cosmetic thing.So just doing something was, in fact, for a navigation menu where a full stop (period!) is added to the top links in the nested list like so:
#new_nav_top li>a:after { content:”.”; }
…BUT […]

Merzbarn website - Schwitters

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

An interesting, and recently done site devoted to the final Merzbau project of artist Schwitters, unfinished Merzbarn in Cumbria:
http://www.merzbarn.net/
there is also a wonderful Dutch site on the barn project - with detailed photographs and outline of the work.

in the above video clip, from a generously posted series, is Max Ernst and toward the beginning, short […]

CakePHP installing MySQL on Mac Os X 10.5 (.x) Leopard with built-in PHP and Apache 2

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

The simpler alternative to running MAMP or XAMPP on Os X is using the built-in PHP, APache and getting a binary of Mysql. Although MAMP and XAMPP are simple ways also.
When I first installed mysql for my mac running Leopard just after it came out (end 2007), it was a bit flakey and casued a […]

Chess for schools

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

…but only english schools it seems. Still, an interesting scheme to provide chess sets for free to all schools who apply. They look slightly ugly but are intriguingly meant to be near indestructible sets made from some form of durable plastic.

Glasgow based Poetry Society, Vital Synz launches

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

A site by Infinite Eye for the new Glasgow Poetry Society: Vital Synz.
www.vitalsynz.co.uk

Really enjoyed the Oran Mor launch event, despite only snarfing one canapé…
Worth not staying in and installing Leopard on my new Mini for, even!

Scotland Euro Qualifiers campaign by Tennent’s - made by Infinite eye

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Nice work Craig (of Glasgow’s Infinite Eye) on Stand/ Tennent’s new site for Scotland’s Finest bars — including supporters and bar photos!
And well done to all the bars who have got passion & belief that we will go through, as you can see from all the photos!

New project - record store community site

Friday, August 31st, 2007

this is my latest project - very much in alpha stage still, a record shop and vinyl junkie (secondhand collectors kind of people) community web site:
Vinyl Passion
Not sure whether to go with the domain as it is now or another on vinyl-passion.com that I have. Thoughts?

americana and signage

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

flash site with pics of US urban scenes. Evocative, like Robert Crumb’s cross hatched drawings of cities, in the mixture of run-down background and advertisement shine.

digidress

Monday, April 11th, 2005

Interesting, nosey, prototyping app by Nokia R & D. DigiDress. Less opportunity for disguising your digital persona than the chatrooms of yore. But perhaps opening up new possibilities of disguise based on your location’s context.
Wonder if this will be released? Maybe this kind of thing won’t be needed if Flickr keeps on going: stumbled […]

hilarious modelled chronoprandial schematics

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005