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November 15, 2006January 5, 2012

Interesting choice of a pixel typeface at [The Design Encyclopedia](http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/), where—if you read too quickly—it seems the visitor is able to keep up-to-date on the site content *through the site’s ass*.

Posted in Babble, Design, Sightings

Documenting Photoshop comps with comment overlays

November 8, 2006January 5, 2012

My colleagues and I are generally hired to do the visual design and technical development of websites. Sometimes, we are asked only to create the design, while another company will actually be building the website. Often we will deliver XHTML/CSS templates, but every once in a while, we’re asked to only to deliver Photoshop comps. […]

Posted in Design, Web

The weirdest copycat ever

July 31, 2006January 5, 2012

(Update 2006.08.31: it seems that the copycat has removed his/her pages! Thus, the links in this post are no longer valid.) This has got to be the worst copycat job ever. Not only do they steal tons of the copy straight from our website, but they’ve actually linked to Cinnamon, presumably being too lazy to […]

Posted in Babble, Business, Design, Sightings, Web

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