The Crest of Visualization

by kartooner on March 11, 2005

One of the most impor­tant pieces of the kar­tooner redesign is the addi­tion of a medievil crest. A few peo­ple have emailed me about the crest image which serves as part of the kartooner.com logo and instead of email­ing every­one indi­vid­u­ally with (…)

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The Great Conjunction

by kartooner on March 10, 2005

Jim Henson’s The Dark Crys­tal was an epic under­tak­ing for Hen­son and com­pany in the early 80’s. It also remains one of my favorite movies of all time. Despite the high pro­duc­tion qual­ity of the film the dif­fi­culty in creating (…)

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CSS Refresh

by kartooner on March 8, 2005

Two years ago, after read­ing Design­ing with Web Stan­dards by Jef­frey Zeld­man, I made an oath to myself that I would kick my old web devel­op­ment habits and take my Jedi train­ing in CSS-based design. I can remem­ber the exact moment when (…)

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A Clone of Several People

by kartooner on March 2, 2005

In the past 10 or 12 years ran­dom strangers have men­tioned to me in pass­ing con­ver­sa­tion, “You remind me of my boss or my friend who lives in such and such town, down by the river.” The first few times (…)

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