It doesn’t happen very often, but every now and then I find a video on YouTube that I really like – and I think this one is probably the best one I’ve ever seen on the site, and quite possibly the best video that I’ve ever seen. This just blew me away…
It’s titled ‘The Machine is Us/ing Us’ – and it was produced by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.
Let me know what you thought! 
Every designer is influenced by their surroundings, the people they meet, and design trends – but does that mean that we’re all affected in the same way, or does each of us retain a sense of uniqueness in our designs – regardless of influence?
Tara at the Graphic Design Blog decided to run an experiment to find out. The experiment (open to anyone who wants to take part) requires you to scribble down a logo idea (or several if you wish) for two fictitious companies.
Well, I couldn’t resist finding out if my patterns of thought when designing are my own – so without further ado, I present my submission to the experiment!
Do you design web sites of any type – from blogs to full-blown corporate e-commerce solutions? Perhaps the only site you design is your own one? Well, one of the problems that faces every web designer at some time is that of testing your site on all the major browsers. In case you’re interested, this is how my current visitor’s browser useage breaks down:
Having three of four versions of each major browser installed at the same time and on the same machine is not only an administrative nightmare, but damn near impossible too! If you’re lazy like me then you probably end up testing on just the very biggest ones – I typically test in IE6, IE7, Firefox 2 and maybe Opera. What about all the others though – the MacOS browsers (particularly difficult if you only have a Windows machine) and the Linux builds?
