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Theme Competitions

adam — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:29:20 +0000

In true wordpress theme competition tradition, Lunarpages is launching a contest, overlapping with Design Vitality contest. Not that many people were entering that one, I guess I wasn't the only one who thought it sounded like a scam. Lunarpages at least has a decent start on terms and conditions. Depending on how much free time I have, what with being in Europe for the last half of this month, I may enter. Then again, if I haven't finished a theme by February, it's probably not worth finishing

h/t Alex King

Competition Entries

adam — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 06:01:59 +0000

the Sandbox Designs Competition is now closed, and Scott's requested that we ping the closing post, so that all the designs show up in one place, until the live preview is ready. So here are my entries:

Promised Land

Walk in the Shadows

Both designs are packaged as themes, so just install them like you would any other wordpress theme.

almost.

If you're running wordpress 2.2.1, there's a bug that's fixed, but hasn't been released yet. you'll need to replace /wp-includes/theme.php with the patched theme.php (linked directly to wordpress' bug tracker, right click and save target as).

Packaging Designs as Themes:

In my opening comment in style.css, I have an extra line that says Template: Sandbox, which makes wordpress use my stylesheet (and not sandbox's), with sandbox's template files. There's a longer explanation in the codex. Being a standalone theme makes it easier for users to install my designs (provided they've already installed sandbox).

It also lets me do some really cool stuff. I can't add more templates, but i can include a functions.php, which allows me to add widgets, theme options, custom header API, update notifications, or anything else, including hooking a credit into the footer, if I wanted. Check it out in Walk in the Shadows, which uses a custom header.

Shameless Plugs

adam — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:53:21 +0000

Scott's organizing a wordpress design competition, purely in CSS. which means it's open to:

wordpress.com users
anyone who can use CSS, since PHP and javascript won't be judged

Also, Sourceforge is running Community Choice awards, so you can go nominate Dream in Infrared, if you're so inclined:

(Disconnected is also eligible).

of former professors and new magazines

adam — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:11:10 +0000

AIA Chicago announced their 2006 Design Awards today. Ammar got an interior nomination for his Me Miyake interior:

It's very interesting, Ammar's work has always been minimal in the sense of how it reacts to program and having open plans. But this space is surprisingly hard edged and orthogonal, in contrast to the work that he was doing when i was in his class.

Also today, i got my very own copy of architect magazine 1. You know the one, it used to be called architecture magazine, but now it always has some attractive starchitect plastered on the cover. Apparently their attempts to convert architecture into a celebrity sport aren't going so well. it's bad enough that they ship them out to every firm, but now they're trolling the phonebooks. mine came addressed to an architect who hasn't lived here since the building was remodelled.

that's a specially crafted link. otherwise the page refreshes automatically so they can serve you more ads. it's also nofollowed.

Monuments and Progress

adam — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:41:07 +0000

i think they're ice cubes?

NYTimes thinks it's opposition to progress. St. Petersburg thinks they're protecting their heritage. Not that St. Petersburg has a beautiful history to begin with (supposedly more people died building the city than in the Great Northern Wars it was built for). Judging by the babelfish translation of the program description, the project is mixed office and residential. The skyline of St. Petersburg has been unchanged for 300 years, and now they're going to make the new focal point... private business? Sure, it makes sense to us, here, since commerce built all of our landmarks. But the landmarks of St. Petersburg have been reclaimed from the wealthy for the public. Shouldn't progress be 'not building more monuments to the wealthy'?