The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century and was characterized by an innovative growth of Latin and vernacular literatures, the political development of the conventions of diplomacy, and an … Read More
Category: Design
Notes from #HEWebPitt
Without People, You’re Nothing by Georgy Cohen (@radiofreegeorgy)
Georgy Cohen’s presentation is about how as a web designer you can’t get around working with people, and that your work isn’t about pixels or prose, but rather people. The … Read More
The Jikji, Villard Diagram, and the Gutenberg Revolution
One of the major areas of evolution in technology for the design industry – mechanical movable type printing – occurred during the Middle Ages (or the Medieval period). The Middle Ages, which lasted from the 5th to the 15th century, … Read More
Redesign that’s worth doing, is worth doing right
Near the end of the summer in 2013, I and a group of other web developers and marketing personnel started to look forward to the West Virginia School of Public Health’s 2014 website redesign. The School of Public Health’s last … Read More
Skeuomorphism
In the book Simulacra and Simulation Jean Baudrillad concludes that “everywhere the Hyperrealism of simulation is translated by the hallucinatory resemblance of the real to itself,” ergo skeuomorphism is design simulation appearing like reality.
Skeuomorphism refers to both a digital … Read More