Archive for July, 2006

Pentagram’s Michael Bierut comments on The National Design Award Communication Design winners’ political statement to theWhite House in his Design Observer article. The article is well worth the read as it gives the briefest of overviews regarding American politics and design.

The whole CommD declining the invitation is an interesting, if not empty, gesture, to be sure. My favorite take on the controversy is Michael’s note:

“What we have here, then, is a symbolic protest to a symbolic event.”

BAM! Ouch! Served!

Content with Style: Playing Nice with the Other CSS Kids <- This article has some good ideas for developing in CSS across a team. Some great organizational tips, too. Not too sure about the importing of multiple CSS files into a master CSS file, though.

Other gems this article leads to is some interesting thoughts on creating a standard CSS framework (see previous post) and some tactical stuff, like using "tags" to organize your mondo-biggo CSS files:

• http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/17/a-css-framework
• http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/12/modular-css
• http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2005/05/03/css-tip-flags.html

Wow, I’m becoming quite the XHTML/CSS geek these days, eh?

In this article, the author takes a stab at creating a naming convention for universal web page elements. Ambitious, if not a bit simplistic.

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So, we have narrowed it down to three variations of the logo mark… these are the latest iterations.

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This column from PC Magazine is a funny read for us HTML geeks. The author seems to get a few things wrong (or glosses over a few steps in logic), like in his assertion that:

“…CSS’s real benefit was that the layout not only could be changed easily but also could become dynamic: The content is stored in a database and presented as necessary, with instant updates.”

We all know that this really has nothing to do with CSS, but whatever…

If anything, this article underscores the true broken promise of web standards: you still need to pay a design professional oodles of money if you want to do it “right”. CSS for the masses has failed, thus far.