Latest intern
Please welcome Portfolio Center's Kyle Thompson as our latest intern.
Armchair designs for Diesel...
We designed and sponsored Diesel Industries' party for our friend and collaborator Paul Pope.
Put on your red shoes and head out to 8401 Melrose Place.
See design for invitation large.
He's a Mac. He's a PC.
photo by Mason Poe
Kenny Bunch, our good friend and frequent accomplice for a decade, began programming at age 8 on a Coleco Adam computer. Since then, he's become a certifiable Flash Master and confidently says stuff like "I've figured out how to resolve issues that everyone else faces but have never solved." Scoffers can zip it 'cause the man backs it up. Now, after recently denting the relative mass of the collective programming community with Physical Programming, he's put a footnote in somebody's Apple History by finally getting a Mac. Congrats, KB. Let us know if you need help figuring out Photo Booth.
Movable Type vs. Wordpress
Once upon a time, folks used Movable Type to setup their blogs. It was free, you could install it on your own server and use plugins and CSS files to customize it. A Movable Type community of sorts appeared, supporting each other through forums, blog posts and comments - we learned to customize and optimize. Sometimes the Movable Type system was used for more than personal blogging, even if doing so was not especially user friendly.
Then one day WordPress appeared. It was not remarkable at first; it was yet another blogging software. Some folks started to use it over Movable Type because of some rather minor differences in how the two function.
Movable Type remained the clear leader up until the point where they changed their licensing and made the freely distributed version functionally limited. At that point, many people (myself included) switched to Wordpress. It wasn't just the free factor, it's also refreshing to work with a system that does not rely on file publishing, and instead just loads each page dynamically.
Now the pendulum may swing back the other way, WordPress is by no means perfect, but MovableType has unlocked all the features from their personal-use version - and they have been making improvements. The biggest reason I'm interested in giving Movable Type another chance: the WordPress Administration tool is a real ogre - it's organized poorly, scattered, and clunky.
16 year old Austin Heller has some well articulated thoughts on the matter, read them over at his blog post on the matter.
Perception & reality. Fast food style.
Here's a little reminder of truth in advertising. Want fries with that retouching?
Hadi Seyfi
Is it an architect? Is it a photographer? Is it a graphic designer? No, it's all of the above!
PC's Hadi Seyfi joins us as an design intern this quarter.
What College Students Like
Apple, Facebook, Target...These are just a few of the things college students like. Ad Age has a good write up of Anderson Analytics' third annual fall brand survey of college students.
Clothing, Candy, Soft Drinks and More