August 16th, 2008
It’s been a crazy and hard few weeks. Between work, film projects, family coming into town (and crashing on our floor) and the passing of my Grandmother, my mentor and my closest friend, I’ve hardly been keeping my head above water. But this week ushers in an event we have all been looking forward to all year. Yes, it’s that time again. An Event Apart 2008, sails in to San Francisco Monday.
This years line up is chalked full of interesting topics and top notch speakers. In particular, I’m looking forward to Better User Experience Through Microformats, by Tantek Çelik, who is one of the founders of microformats.org. Tantek will discuss “proper use of microformats (in addition to those Elements of Meaningful HTML that you know by heart) [and how this] can improve the usability of several common interactive design scenarios.”
In addition, there is an entire arsenal of compelling sessions, including presentations by Luke Wroblewski, Jeff Veen and Kelly Goto.
I look forward to seeing everyone there.
It’s not too late, you can still get tickets.
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August 3rd, 2008
There’s no question about it, I’m a film enthusiast. However, I’m finding it more and more difficult to make time for keeping up with and watching films. Fortunately, for those in close proximity of San Francisco, there is the 3 Minute Film Festival.
This year, for the 6th Annual 3-Minute Film Festival, Lauren and I are not only attending, but we’re also featuring our own original film, Regular Expression.
There will be art, live DJs and of course, an exciting menagerie of short films. I hope you all come out!
When and Where
For more information, visit the Root Division website.
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July 28th, 2008
I find little time to address the small things that would make my life easier, but when I do, I like to get the most out of it I can. So, when I blocked off time to re-architect our website, I made sure I addressed as many of the tedious, time draining tasks tied to running a website, as possible. Seeing as we’re a design studio, perhaps the biggest of these is maintaining our portfolio.
Maintaining an online portfolio is not terribly time consuming thing, but it has none-the-less been one of the many tasks that often get put on the back burner, in our shop. Additionally, Lauren and I both attempt to maintain a small portfolios on our blogs. So, in approaching this redesign, streamlining the portfolio upkeep, was one of my top priorities.
To this end, Expression Engine proved to be very valuable in doing the heavy lifting.
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