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Sometimes it’s a simple idea and really great execution that results in a pleasing piece of art, other times it can be a grueling exercise of narrowing down shards of ideas right? These pieces by artist Katerina Orlikova combine two things I really love, typography and anatomy in a fresh and pleasing way. Replace the bones in these animal x-rays with elements of typography, simple yet brilliant spark of an idea carried out to fruition. I have to say I’m a bit jealous I didn’t think of the idea first, as I have a pretty large collection of anatomy books I’ve scored at thrift shops over the years. Well earned kudos to Katerina nice job!

Typography Anatomy

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In the early 90’s I lived in a crazy little desert town called Tucson Arizona. A wonderful place filled with exotic plants and people who were, well let’s say equipped to live in a dry island where summer lasts 9 moths of the year and can reach temps of 118º . In this place there was a thriving music scene filled with creative weirdos and fueled by the DIY punk ethos. I was involved in numerous music projects, and Barely Bipedal was one of my favorites.

Recently my friend Kevin loaned me his 4-track and I started digitalizing all the old 4-track recordings that we made. I have created a website using Wordpress for the band (more of a historical document but who knows maybe it will fuel some new material) and you can listen some of the songs free. Click on the banner below to learn more about this wonderful band of misfits from the land of tall cactus and javalinas.

Hard to believe 10 years ago we were all (well some of those people) worried about the great digital disaster Y2K! We are fortunate to still be around and to be celebrating 5 years of our little design agency Bitclone here in Portland Oregon. What’s been the key to our success? Well in addition to a meticulous obsession with new technologies and how they affect design, I believe it is our desire to provide a personal commitment to serving our clients. My grandfather was an amazing and inspiring human being who ran a Ford dealership in Old Saybrook CT. He had clients all across the country and he was often driving to places like Florida to personally deliver their cars to them! The man was always on the move, he would take these 15-20 minute power naps to recharge, but then pow he’s back up mowing the lawn, tending his huge garden, or helping someone out with a small task. He lived to a feisty old 93 years of age, take what you will from that and let’s rock 2010!
Here we are at our favorite little Perierra Crepe Cart (corner of Hawthorne and se 12th).

Cheers,

Eric & Alex

Hey all you restaurant workers out there seeking employment, you should check out this new app called Table20 aimed squarely at the restaurant business. We were contracted to help fix up and create some HTML/CSS markup on this project, and we also provided them with their new Wordpress theme. The app just launched, and is already filling up, helping connect restaurants and bars with those looking for employment. We think this is a really great idea, and the final product is quite slick. Have a peek at Table20.

there are a number of really good reasons I recommend my clients, friends and family to use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, and security is at the top of the list. No browser is 100% secure, but let’s face it, IE is a target, and it’s flaws are exploited more often. Today a pretty serious exploit was discovered, and while Microsoft scrambles to fix it all you can do is hope they are faster than the Black Hats.

Serious security flaw found in IE

As a design professional and an artist I’ve always been fascinated with medical illustration, and these great paintings are really remarkable documents that transcend above the ordinary. They are really beautiful and grotesque, created in 1819 by Kyoto-area physician/artist Yasukazu Minagaki (1784-1825). The paintings were studies created from actual corpses which were actually the remains of recently beheaded criminals, and it is the grotesque expressions which really makes them stand out in this time period. There are two scrolls of 83 paintings currently hosted at the Keio University Library. Check out the rest of the images here (there is a link to page navigation in the bottom left corner of the page).

Link via the great: Pink Tentacle Blog

Hey this is a pretty cool addition to the Youtube video player. If you want to link to a specific section of a Youtube video in minutes and seconds, you can now add that to the end of the link, so if someone clicks the link the video will start playing at a certain point. I tested this out with my demolition derby video…click here and it will start right at the monster truck portion 24 seconds in. Here is how you do it.

To specify a point, append a tag to the end of your video link with the following syntax: “#t=1m45s” (you can change the numbers before the ‘m’ and ’s’ to edit the minutes and seconds, respectively.

link via- Techcrunch

So you’ve just had me design you a nice looking dynamic website for your small business here in Portland or wherever your company resides…now what? The next step is you need to market and track ad campaigns and conversions! I’ve been using Google Analytics on a number of client websites, to track traffic obviously, and more recently to target conversions. Some of the newer features in Analytics are really great for figuring out just how visitors arrived, what page they entered on, where your traffic ends up going, as well as numerous other details. This is obviously important as it allows you to figure out which pages are successful, and which could use some sprucing up to make them maybe more appealing. Best of all, this application is absolutely free, and if you really want to get into it you can even use adwords to promote yourself as the two applications are integrated almost seamlessly. Check out this informative article to learn more about these exciting topics like Goals and Funnels!
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I was fortunate enough to get away from the computer and designing websites long enough to drive up to Astoria to play a gig with Lana Rebel this weekend. Astoria is a cute little town on the coast of Oregon right up at the top Northwest corner. The drive was beautiful, and on Sat we were able to head out to Ft. Stevens beach which was amazingly completely empty right around sunset. The light was perfect, the ocean was amazing as always…and I snapped a few picts with the iPhone.

My good friend Nancy is an paramount Stumbler, she sends me so many links like every day I barely have time to check them all out. This one struck me as quite nice, and a simple little Firefox addition that will force you to pay a little more attention to the world around you. It is a simple add-on for Firefox that randomly plays a nice Tibetan chime. Take a break and live in the moment.

Consciousness- Firefox Add-on