I have always had a problem with setting full width navigation using unordered lists and have ended up using very complicated hacks to get it to work. When each of the list elements is set to display:inline-block; there is always a margin added on the right hand side that causes the navigation to never fit in the navigation are just right, either leaving space or overrunning the navigation area.
I have recently finished my degree course in Interactive Multimedia Design and I now have to decide what is the best thing for me to do for my future.
It is often heard when talking about a prominent figure in a field to hear people saying things along the lines of “They’re lucky they’re so talented, it’s so easy for them”. This is such an incredible cop out. The reason that these people have talent is because of one thing and one thing only, practice.
Recently I took a trip to the National Print Museum in Dublin and took a day course in letterpress printing. It is a course that is only run twice a year and is a dying art. Recently the art of letterpress has had somewhat of a resurgence, mostly with designers who want their business cards to stand out a little from the crowd.
I would recommend that any person who is in education in, or is currently working in, a field that is involved in digital design or digital art to spend some time thinking about the way that their particular discipline was plied before the computer came along.
Should designers have a style, or should they try and create a design that suits the clients requests? Are designers more comfortable creating in a certain style or are they really expected to be ‘pixel pushers’ and be entirely at the whim of the client?
I have been reading a lot into grid design and I have two words regarding it… “BREAK IT”.
Occasionally when creating a project I need a plugin to perform a task that is simply not available in any of the plugins that are available. In this case I need to find the plug-in that most closely resembles what I need to do and modify it so that it fully fits my needs. I am not talking about changing the css so that it displays differently but more adding new fields and changing the database to store different types of information.
Many months ago, when doing research on future and emerging technologies, I discovered an extremely interesting and captivating talk by Kevin Kelly, on the next 5000 days of the web.
From listening to his talk, I began to feel like I knew what he was talking about and it made me re-evaluate the way in which I thought about design on the web.
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From working in the design industry for a year and from gaining as much experience as I can while still in University I have came up with a design manifesto that I will be trying to live by when creating my designs. Some of these may seem obvious to some people, but others may find them useful. We shall see.
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