New Competencies for Theme Designers

31 Mar 2008 – 1:26
By adam | Posted in blogging, design | Also tagged | Comments (11)

Wordpress 2.5's new image uploader solves the longstanding bug of using deprecated XHTML attributes to float images (align="left", etc.), rather than it being done in CSS. This is handled by applying classes to the image when it's inserted into the post, rather than via inline CSS. This ...

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Art or Design?

22 Jul 2006 – 9:42
By adam | Posted in architecture, soapboxing | Also tagged | Comments (11)

Pop Quiz!
for each of the following items, tell me whether they are art or design:

CSS House 2
CSS Zen Garden
Joshua Davis' Work for the BMW Z4
Mies Van Der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion
Frank Ghery's Jay Pritzker Pavilion

The distinction between art and design is semantic and objective.  There is ...

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