Archive for the “Graphic Design” category

Girls are Weird

by kartooner on April 15, 2005

The fol­low­ing comes from an email inter­view I had with John Martz of Robotjohnny.com for my Typog­ra­phy course. Around 1997, Cana­dian graphic and font designer John Martz decided to design a type­face which would be inspired, in part, by his child­hood and (…)

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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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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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Where is Sideville?

by kartooner on February 14, 2005

Lately I’ve been receiv­ing emails in regards to the sta­tus of Sidev­ille, my pend­ing web­comic. I could have typed up a polite email, saved it to my hard drive and mass mailed it to the Sidev­ille mail­ing list but I decided that in (…)

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