mindgraffiti

mindgraffiti - noun; musings on creative work, publicly posted.

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I am a web developer for the API Web Services dept., where I learn a little more about cows and PHP every day.

Archive for December, 2006

Jobs and Benefits

Monday, December 18th, 2006

I am on vacation starting December 19th. I will post again shortly after the beginning of January. In the meantime, a little lesson for the soon-to-be and newly graduated looking for their first career-type jobs:
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
At first glance, the Angus Journal is far from appealling to most newly minted IDM [...]

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The Purpose of Design - Text

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

I use Cascading Style Sheets to control text. CSS is a way to standardize how the text is presented, and keep it looking the same whether 5 pages are built or 50 pages exist. It ensures that the size, color, leading, kerning, font families, and other measurements/details remain consistent, whether it is text on the [...]

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The Purpose of Design - Color

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Colors are powerful visual communicators. Colors summon emotions, trigger memories, and are associated with the taste of popular flavors. Red evokes the emotion of love. Yellow is reminiscent of summer sunshine. A purple lollipop represents the flavor grape. A green Jolly Rancher tastes like green apple.
Designers use color to evoke emotion, make the eye travel [...]

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