There Is No Page Fold
Micah M. aka Type Micah over at A Collective has relaunched Meme Engine as a t-shirt shop. As a web designer, There Is No Page Fold caught my eye. His apt description of this meme:
In the web design world, the “fold” is a term clients often use when referring to the bottom of their browser window. It stems from printed media; many newspapers are folded before they are stacked, thereby making everything “above the fold” desirable in terms of placement. Online, however, it just doesn’t work that way. Unfortunately, many people are slow to realize this and so, a meme was born.
Embrace the scroll!
Helping the community, Community Values Magazine cover
Say This, Say That recently was invited to create a cover for the Thurston County publication, “Community Values Magazine”.
The Community Values Magazine is a monthly direct mail advertising magazine featuring local discount coupons and information from quality businesses in the Olympia, Lacey & Tumwater area of Washington State.
Our designer, Micah, decided to take a nice local approach to creating this cover. He thought about certain landmarks found in the Olympia area and finally decided upon using a shot of one of Downtown Olympia’s fountains with the Capital featured in the background. Since the holidays are right around the corner, we felt it would be best to portray a sense of the holiday spirit by using the tagline “Enjoy the Season”.
This is just one example of how Say This, Say That is involved with our local community. If you have the time, you can check out the magazine in PDF format below…
http://www.ammaxdigital.com/publication/?m=3456&l=1
Tags: capital, christmas, coupons, fountain, holiday, landmark, magazine, Print, thanksgiving
A handy pixel art tutorial
Even though pixel art isn’t used much in the world of branding, I still find it to be an interesting artstyle. For those looking at getting into video game development, this is also a handy tutorial.
The Pixel Tutorial by Derek Yu
The author, Derek Yu, presents a few things that will help polish up your pixel art skills. This includes dithering, aliasing, and light sources for outlines. There are programs created specifically for pixel art, but this tutorial is mainly for users of photoshop.
Below is a time-elapse of the image used in the tutorial. It gives you a good idea in the process involved in this.
Remove Firefox’s Active Link Focus Outline
Firefox adds a dotted outline to any link that gets clicked, and it remains there until the new content loads. In most cases it doesn’t really matter, but for designers it has always been a bit of a nuisance. It is even more of a problem if you’re using JavaScript triggered by a traditional link to make something happen on the page. In that case the outline will just hang out until another link gets clicked, and so on.
It’s easy enough to remove altogether with a bit of CSS that I found on a blog called Keep the Web Weird, and I’ll be adding this to my browser reset CSS files from now on:
*:focus {
outline: none;
}
I had never heard of the “outline” property so I ran it through the validator and sure enough it’s valid CSS!