One of my heroes, Steve Jobs, passed away last week. As a Mac zealot since 1994…as the second person in line for the grand opening of Illinois' first Apple Store in 2001…as the proud owner of Plush Steve Jobs…it's no exaggeration to say this loss has me incredibly saddened. As so many others on the 'net have qualified his legacy and global/social/cultural impact far better than I could, I'd rather talk about something more personal: the day I met Steve Jobs.
I've been jonesing to learn HTML5 to leverage on my agency-based projects, but the opportunity was not making itself available soon enough. The pseudoroom design site has always been an evolving experiment/testbed, and seemed like the next natural option for learning/applying HTML5.
Nearly 2 years ago, my old friend Nathan and I sat down at a downtown Chicago pub to discuss his shift into full-time iPhone app development. During that conversation, we discussed my involvement on a couple projects he had in the pipeline: the Groupon iPhone app, and an idea for another fun little app that would facilitate quick bets of any kind.
A couple weeks ago my wife and I took a trip to Venice, Florence, and Rome, over the course of 10 days. Laying eyes upon masterpieces of art I’ve only seen in art history books is an experience I’ve lusted after for years. All photos/videos are from our trip.
This is probably a pretty easily-deduced fix for most, but I thought I’d write it up just in case someone is in the same position. Have you ever posted a link on facebook and been nonplussed by the thumbnail selections? Or, not even had a thumbnail option at all? For pseudoroom.com — with a home page completely devoid of (non-background) images — a link on facebook yields nothing but my intro copy. Surely there must be a way to get a nice little thumbnail associated with that link, without changing my home page design one bit?
Within the last few months I was contacted by Clay Griffiths, creator of the ultra-robust Headway WordPress Theme, to design their application icon. For those not familiar with Headway, it enables both novice and advanced uses to visually edit themes within WordPress. Being a massive advocate of WordPress myself, and also having a passion for icon design, this project was right up my alley.
While a freshman in art school, I decided to try my hand at icon design after reading an article in MacAddict (now MacLife) on the topic. The 90′s were the initial exploration and maturation years of Mac desktop/interface customization, if you will. In 8-bit, pixel-by-pixel form, icon designers, as a global collective, released downloadable sets to fans of digital personalization.