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Hey, internet!

Do you like Ruby? Do you like me?

If so, please go to RubyRags and vote for my design.

Or, you know. I'll cry.

In case anyone is interested, over at my blog I have something of a tutorial on how I make my kids' show poster illustrations. Interestingly, the tutorial took almost as long as the image.

Fracture is either a pretty mediocre legal drama with moments of cinematic excellence, or the most sublimely brilliant parody in the history of film. I know which one I'd like to believe, so let's just go with that.

OMG YOU GUYS I TOTALLY RECOMMEND IT FOR GOOD TIMES.

Before the movie, I flicked through a magazine in Borders. Usually, when the cover price of a magazine is thirty dollars, and it's not made of gold or capable of giving me a massage, I don't even get to the flicking through stage, but this one boasted an exposé on "the ten biggest design clichés and how to avoid them".

I stopped reading after number six, because number six was titled simply "Helvetica". Now, I happen to believe that Helvetica truly is the greatest typeface of all time, but I recognise that it's not in and of itself a panacea for all mankind's design woes.

However.

If the sum total of your point is essentially "Helvetica used to be cool but unless you're Massimo Vignelli it just makes you look like a hack", then it is probably best not to set the titles of your magazine IN HELVETICA.

That is just a free tip.

From me.

Home from work. Following items assembled:

• Oil heater: check
• Nine hours of music with which to texture my environment: check
• Reference materials: check
• Chocolate fish: check (but dwindling: hmm.)
• Photoshop and Illustrator open and waiting: check

And now for some truly mindless design before Transformers at midnight.

Just a quick shout-out to acknowledge pretty much the first Dramasoc photographer ever to have the presence of mind to shoot in front of a backdrop that vaguely matches the colour of the stock. Hurrah!

...with my old journal style, after probably about two years.

So I made a new one, and this time I paid some attention to the comments and archive pages, although there are still some glitches I haven't bothered to iron out yet.

Anyway, I'd appreciate a bit of feedback, unless you are using Internet Explorer 6 or earlier, in which case I laugh disdainfully at you and offer only the slightest apology that my style will look like balls on such a crappy browser. (I haven't tested it on IE7, though, so please feel free to point out mistakes there.)

Also, if it looks like there's no style at all going on, that's probably because LiveJournal's CSS cache has awful downtime.

Icons by famfamfam. Colours by me.

Now I think I will go and find some food.

ETA: Thanks to cavalaxis for finding the bug when LJ's navigation strip is showing (not pretty). I've also fixed the 'Reply to comment' page, which I had misunderstood earlier. Now tested on latest versions of Safari, Firefox and Camino.

"The Desktopography project arrived … as a place to download nature /topological themed wallpapers with edits from seledcted designers."

(Also, how long since you heard this song?)

Via alexlikeskitten:

Perhaps Le Tour De France need to revisit their homepage design.

If you can't see anything wrong with it, I truly envy you. Please don't ask.

So I've been playing with the Bloggish style a bit, and have jazzed up my journal theme somewhat, something I've been meaning to do ever since not quite finishing my old theme way back when.

Any thoughts?