Oh the irony

Does anyone else find it slightly ironic that a camp made to be accessible to persons with disabilities left out the alternative text information for pictures on their Web site?

I wanted to use the same ones they had and when I went to copy it found that it did not exist.

Evolving Web sites

This article comes from the UK newspaper site www.Telegraph.co.uk. I'm sure there must be other articles about this too since the sources are guys from the U.S.--there's even a UW professor cited.

Anyway. The article, Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding,' reports that for a while, Web pages have been changing or evolving to keep them up-to-date with user preferences.

What scientists have now created, is software that, once a site is set up, treats the features of the page like genes. So every time the page gets refreshed, the software randomly changes or mutates the page. Thought that was kind of cool.

Illustrator question

Does anybody know how to put a border around a photo in Illustrator without having to draw a separate box around the photo?

Interesting design column

Ed Henninger writes a column addressing design issues and giving tips to work around them. Some of his insight is pretty interesting. I was reading through it today and found myself guilty of some of the aspects he brings up such as Cuzicans.

http://www.henningerconsulting.com/columns.html

more on ads

Thought this article was an interesting extension to the conversation we started in class on fashion ads. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/fashion/10TELLER.html

Ideas for Revamps?

If you ever thought that there weren't that many creative things you could do with a business card, check out this website. It's amazing what can be accomplished in such a teeny-tiny space. Some of them are a little over the top, namely the one printed on a clothespin, but some are pretty cool.

My favorite is the address sticker placed on used metro cards. Funny AND environmentally friendly.

Final project?

In light of the several time intensive projects due in the upcoming weeks, I was looking through the syllabus and noticed that we also have a final project due not too long after some of our other projects are due. Does anyone know what this entails?