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If freelancers could invent our own clichés, one might be: no two jobs are the same. Each gig we take on brings with it new personalities, new challenges and new rewards. Despite these differences, most any freelancing gig will fit into one of these twenty types.
A very thorough run-through all kinds of freelance job types. My favorites are “The Baloon Gig” and “The English Patient”. And by favorite I mean the opposite of favorite.
There is a serious weirdness going on in bath tub design, it’s like the makers are conspired against the human race. They are slippery when wet (no pun intended) and they still keep making them out of the same material. I mean WTF?!
Start making non-slippery bath tubs so I can stop having to glue sandpaper to mine in order not to break my neck when I’m showering. Jeeeeezzz…
A very cool way to differentiate your ad from an ocean of adsense ads hardly anyone notices anymore.
Is in the beautiful city of Zagreb with wonderful friends. Met awesome new people, reconnected with awesome new people. Cold is killing me. Tongue burned on hot green tea. The waiter keeps ignoring us. Off to another presentation, too many business cards flying around and Siniša’s laptop full of shemale porn is compromised in the conference room. Will report again soon. Cheers.
I finally have a chance to plug her site, so here it is. Awesome domain name too. ;)
Jovana’s sandwich. For the recipe visit the flickr page
[…] this blog’s (now previous) design was never given some deep thought, it was just implemented in accordance to the site’s guidelines, to fit well with the site and not feel like it is powered by a whole different app (entire site is powered by the amazing Textpattern). So we held the initial design up until a point when it really became an eye sore for us, which in turn resulted in far less frequent postings. It was time to get it into shape.
I’m very interested in opinions and comments. Shoot!
TaskWatch whiteboard is a wall-mounted write-on/wipe-off panel with a clock in the middle. You can use markers to write all sorts of messages or draw images beside the relevant hour, which makes TaskWatch a helpful tool for organizing one’s time or sharing information with co-workers.
Fucking brilliant.
Is it the red wire, or the blue wire
just pick one and cut, it just doesn’t matter anymore
or did it ever, cause I could never control
when the bomb would explode
Oh god I love you, I mean forever
I left my body behind to break the news
looks like it’s over, please remember
all of the things I never got a chance to say
like you look smashing in your fourth grade picture,
the one that we hung by the door,
in our house that was so beautiful
Yeah, here in our little home
Rocky Votolato – “Suicide Medicine”
From the entire list I agree only with #8 – I hate it when people are choosing to stand in the middle of the crowd and hold damn flags or banners. On a Morrissey concert one time I had a serious argument with one guy, he was from Spain I think, he wouldn’t put down his damn flag so I had to talk some sense into him.
On another note, I think they missed one thing on this list – smokers. I absolutely hate it when people get drunk (or worse yet when they are sober) and wave around and stage dive with their damn cigarettes.
May 1st fun. Had an awesome time.
There’s more where that came from.
With the help of Siegel Gale’s Howard Belk and Sven Seger, Pentagram’s Michael Bierut, and LogoLounge.com’s Bill Gardner, Fortune magazine has pitted 16 logos in a battle to the death to determine the ultimate logo […]
Target won. Ha-ha. (Read through the comments as well.)
So apparently there are some really crazy people out there (not in a bad way). However, I do encourage creativity in (almost) every way, even if it’s something like this – a fully em-based scaleable image of Homer Simpson made out of alphabetic characters by positioning them by CSS.
So tomorrow’s another May 1st – my favorite holiday. It became my favorite holiday because it usually means no shitty weather from that date on, means you will be wearing your t-shirt outside and that you can burn your damn winter jacket in protest and celebration of spring. (I’m speaking in hyperbole here, don’t really burn your jackets, on a second thought though… Nah, don’t do it.)
However, May 1st was way more awesome when I was a wee lad having very little to care about and very much time to drink beer outside, toss the ball around and party. Now, things are more complicated seeing that May 1st somehow always seems to be a working day, and only post-communist countries are celebrating it, it gets tricky because people expect you to do stuff on that day. With that in mind, I’m spending the entire day today working, trying to make up for tomorrow even though I am not writing tomorrow completely off.
Now that’s a bummer. May 1st means that basically the entire parks and urban areas become one giant barbecue. There’s meat being cooked everywhere. We usually put some mushrooms, tomatoes and zucchini on the grill, also throw some bread on there as well, complete it with a nice fresh cold salad (srpska or šopska and spring onions) and you got yourself an awesome meal. But there’s a problem, because you’re not always in charge of the grill, it’s usually someone who doesn’t give a rat’s ass that you are not a meat eater and he throws all your lovely veggies into the same damn dish with the meat and you end up tasting that meat for two days back in your throat after eating those veggies. I’m telling you, it’s awful, it’s like being constantly by a fire inhaling smoke for 24 hours after the barbecue. But hold on, that’s not all – that’s if you get to your veggies at all, because there’s always a group of early drunks who can’t wait for all the food to be cooked and start eating right away and bam – before you know it your veggies are gone because those motherfuckers love them some tasty motherfucking veggies.
Anyway, so to whoever is going to fire it up tomorrow – cheers, my fellow working blue collars, I’m gonna go prepare my tactic now for guarding our food.
“I tried to tell him sprains don’t heal themselves, but he kept calling me a pussy and telling me to chug,” said Girard’s roommate, 23-year-old Darren Iverson. “I wasn’t even holding a beer at the time. I’m pretty sure he has a concussion.” Added Iverson, “And I know you can’t use Jäger to clean a wound.”
Easily one of the best articles I have read in a while. It is not rare I laugh out loud (for realz) while reading the Onion, so I had to go and buy some schwag from their store.
Believe it or not, after circa two years I have made some improvements on the framework for HTML forms called Uni-Form. If you are not familiar with it, here’s the lowdown:
Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.
Basically it is a set of form fields called ‘units’ that you simply stack in order to make your form. You have two form layouts to choose from – block labels with labels above the input fields, and inline labels with labels in-line with input fields. Inline layout is more suitable for wider areas, and block layout is for narrow columns, and some people argue that it is more ‘user friendly’ to have the labels above the input field.
Anyway, this version is by far nothing spectacular, please don’t assume that because of the huge gap in development, it is just a step closer to the desired effect of the ‘form markup standard’.
As both its function and form suggest, the ampersand is a written contraction of “et,” the Latin word for “and.” Its shape has evolved continuously since its introduction, and while some ampersands are still manifestly e-t ligatures, others merely hint at this origin, sometimes in very oblique ways.
Awesome insight into one of the most interesting characters in the alphabet – the ampersand. The article also mentions some of the most distinctive variations of this character through examples. Awesome read.
Did you know that the typographic terms “uppercase” and “lowercase” – actually and properly called majuscule and minuscule – don’t come from the fact that one set of characters is taller than the other, but rather from the fact that minuscule glyphs were usually kept in a lower casing (a drawer), beneath the top casing where the majuscule glyphs would usually reside.
Series of typographic illustrations based on Johnaton Yule’s favorite sans-serifs.
All I can say is that I want Helbotica on a poster or a shirt, I don’t care.
Browsing through my referrer logs today, well to be honest third time today – I know, I’m an idiot but I do it all the time – I came across a familiar URI. It was from a forum I don’t visit for a long time. Usually when I get hit with a flashback like this I am faced with some kind of crap I was talking back when I was a wee boy, but this one wasn’t embarrassing at all.
It was my first business card sporting my very first personal identity I made for myself (well, first one for anyone ever actually). I remember back then being way more into graphic design than into Web design and I also remember that this logo was done sort of collaboratively on Typophile forums now three + years ago.
The funny thing is – I don’t think this card is half bad, if you don’t mind me saying that about my own work, but I think it’s appropriate here since that much time has passed and I didn’t know what the fuck I was doing after all. I know I have done work far worse than this – no, screw done – sold.
How do you like them apples now?
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