It’s past midnight March eleventh and I finally did it, my new website, after give or take six months trying to build my own site from scratch and to no avail, it’s a long story I will elaborate on that later.

So, after forking up my money I build my site using Squarespace —no regrets, they’re awesome— you can now point your browser to my domain and arrived here, first of all I want to welcome you to my humble site one of many gazzilion sites you can browse on the Internet and yet you are here, thank you.

I will semi-regularly post to this blog every month, ranging from my opinions mainly in design, typography, and probably some blurbs, or random things that I found interesting or intriguing from all around the web.

If you want to see my so called portfolio, it isn’t ready yet, but you can look at my Dribbble profile to see some of my past work, I put the link at the top labelled “worrrk” until I finished prepping my portfolio and put it here at this very website. Once again, thank you for checking out my site, hopefully you can get something out of it.

“There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

— Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 13, Dorothy Parker

“The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.”

— Paul Rand

“Easy to know that diamonds are precious. Good to learn that rubies have depth. But more to see that pebbles are miraculous.”

— Josef Albers

… Developers can now drop long-form texts into reader-friendly, attractive layouts, with multiple columns and with image layers that aren’t chained to the grid. There are exciting new possibilities hiding behind the labels “Interactive Text Color”, “Text Folding”, and “Custom Truncation”. So, for example, it will soon be possible while composing in iOS to have the color of text change if the app recognizes a specific dynamic element (a hashtag, a Twitter account name, or the like). Or, we can trim longer texts into previews without being limited to options like before/after/middle; developers can define those options however they want.

When we’re dealing with information, we’re dealing with typography, thank goodness that more and more company are care about good typography at this scale, microscopic that is. Like they say, the best details are ones that often overlooked by the untrained eyes but felt and invoked visceral reaction.

Magical Nihilism:

It’s from the beautiful, beautiful book Bluebeard, and I think I first heard it first (as with many such things) from Matt Webb:

“The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.

The rarest of these specialists, he says, is an authentic genius – a person capable of having seemingly good ideas not in in general circulation.

“A genius working alone,” he says, “is invariably ignored as a lunatic.”

The second sort of specialist is a lot easier to find; a highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands and admires the fresh ideas of the genius, and who testifies that the genius is far from mad.

“A person like this working alone,” says Slazinger, “can only yearn loud for changes, but fail to say what their shaped should be.”

The third sort of specialist is a person who can explain everything, no matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pigheaded they may be. “He will say almost anything in order to be interesting and exciting,” says Slazinger.

“Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey.”

Bono on Jonathan Ive:

What the competitors don’t seem to understand is you cannot get people this smart to work this hard just for money. Jony is Obi-Wan. His team are Jedi whose nobility depends on the pursuit of greatness over profit, believing the latter will always follow the former, stubbornly passing up near-term good opportunities to pursue great ones in the distance.

(Via Daring Fireball)