Time to write for Verb Noun. Right now the site is various shades of battleship gray, accented with neon late-aughts squiggles. The colors match the drab layout and I want to shoot the site with a gun. I am not a fan of the font I tricked your browser into displaying either, well I like the font, just not for my body text.

The Header area is anemic; the logo (only V2) has got to go, the contact info is in the wrong place and totally boring. The Body area screams BLOG so loud I want to go back to the days of the ‘homepage‘ or ‘online journal’. The Footer has all the normal BLOGGY links on it and some obnoxious title areas that are longer than the data they label. Furthermore, there are no interesting layout graphics on the whole page, no depth, and no nuance.

One thing this site has going for it is that little tumblr feed on the right. I wrote a JS that grabs my tumblr images and used masonry to stack them nice.

All I want is a genre defining, paradigm shifting, mega-quake website that will showcase the genius that is my design skills. I guess I better get going then.

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (This is a fantastic book)
• Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
• How to be a graphic designer, without losing your soul
• Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design
• Graphic Design: A New History
• Grids
• Materials, Process, Print

But dont take my word for it!

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WOW, chrome dumped me out of the post mid image upload. sucks. So now I am just re-posting some text so that I can get the image upload folder in check…

I am adding some text here so that I can style the image and surrounding text properly. Also, I am seriously considering changing the blog’s body font to a serifed one. After I get the basic layout down, Ill enter some further posts, then Ill work on the specific font’s look and feel. This whole process is going smoothly and I feel like a ninny for ever considering “expression engine”.