Maniacal Rage, March 2013
I had a few goals with this design:
1. Reduce the size of photos so they’re still big and nice but they don’t cannibalize the rest of the content. The past two designs made the photos bigger and bigger and a paragraph of text next to one looked ridiculous. Besides, if you really want to see my photos huge, you can always click over to Flickr.
2. Get away from Helvetica. I spend all day developing and designing iOS apps which means I see Helvetica 23.5 hours a day. I dream in Helvetica. I wanted a little break. Granted, I chose two fonts that are heavily overused (Proxima Nova and FF Tisa Web Pro), but I really enjoy them so that’s where we’re at.
3. Never open Photoshop, only use a single image for that smiling photo of me up top. And make that image mask scalable (thanks, SVG). Any other imagery is done with web fonts. Start and finish the project in 48 hours or less. It ended up being 51 hours from start to finish, but I’m okay with that.
Maniacal Rage, March 2013
I had a few goals with this design:
1. Reduce the size of photos so they’re still big and nice but they don’t cannibalize the rest of the content. The past two designs made the photos bigger and bigger and a paragraph of text next to one looked ridiculous. Besides, if you really want to see my photos huge, you can always click over to Flickr.
2. Get away from Helvetica. I spend all day developing and designing iOS apps which means I see Helvetica 23.5 hours a day. I dream in Helvetica. I wanted a little break. Granted, I chose two fonts that are heavily overused (Proxima Nova and FF Tisa Web Pro), but I really enjoy them so that’s where we’re at.
3. Never open Photoshop, only use a single image for that smiling photo of me up top. And make that image mask scalable (thanks, SVG). Any other imagery is done with web fonts. Start and finish the project in 48 hours or less. It ended up being 51 hours from start to finish, but I’m okay with that.