Absolutely Stunning.

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 05/27/08 at 09:05:54 pm

ISO50 Obama Print

One of my favorite artists, Scott Hansen AKA ISO50 released a beautiful print this morning. The artwork is for Barack Obama’s campaign in a new project called “Artists for Obama”. The print entitled “Progress” is limited to 5000 and can be purchased for $70 from the Obama campaign store. 70 bucks is a little steep for an ISO50 print (I own a couple of his other works) but all of the proceeds go to the Barack Obama for President Campaign.

You can check out some of the other truly amazing works of art ISO50 has created here.

Create an online portfolio with Carbonmade.com

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 04/20/08 at 09:04:51 pm

CarbonmadeMy project for this weekend was creating a new portfolio that shows off some of my recent web and graphic design work. While I doubt I’ll actually use the portfolio to gain freelance projects it’s nice to have a spot online to show off a few samples, just like it’s nice to have a resume on hand to outline my work experience.

I stumbled across a portfolio somewhere last week that was using this service called Carbonmade and I guess the cute logo struck my interest because a few minutes later I was working on creating an account for myself. Carbonmade is an innovative concept that allows people to create professional looking portfolios with no HTML or programming experience necessary. It works similar to a photo gallery, you’re able to upload your works and add comments to describe it. Carbonmade offers a free option called the “Meh. Plan” that restricts the user to 5 projects and 35 images. Otherwise the “Whoo! Plan” allows for 50 projects, 500 images, and 10 videos for $12 a month.

The way that this system is set up I could see it being used in a few different ways such as a presentation or a dedicated gallery for family photos and such. I’m not quite finished yet, but you can check out my Carbonmade portfolio here.

ASUS… Woodtop?!

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 08/14/07 at 01:08:52 pm

ASUS was showing off some of their new design concepts at Computex Taipei 2007. Among them are a trio of laptops fashioned almost entirely of wood. They are obviously designed for style and me being the utilitarian I normally wouldn’t be interested. However they actually look pretty awesome, especially some of the artwork they have done on the outside casing. The one notebook with the built-in 4 channel mixer just blows my mind, it’s weird because I always thought of ASUS as a just motherboard and peripherals manufacture…

Engadget has posted a full article with a bunch of photos, take a look.

A Perfect Example.

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 04/23/07 at 08:04:09 pm

I don’t write about my artistic or design interests very often, but I should. If you can’t tell by now, I’m big into more a minimalist appearance to things. Frankly, it just looks good. If not overdone, the minimalist style is often times professional, functional, easy to read and understand in one swift move. Most of my work, layouts, or designs I choose to use are very simple for a reason, and the reason isn’t that I don’t have the ability to create something more complicated it’s that I just love the feel of clean uniform fashion.

“Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It’s a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.” - Claudio Silvestrin

I was surfing around the internet tonight, and I was reading up on ApacheCon, an upcoming conference for Apache users, developers, and innovators. I stumbled upon the ApacheCon Website and I wanted to link to it here, to show a perfect example of good clean design that doesn’t have to conform to a particular style other then professionalism.

The Tools Behind It All

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 03/23/07 at 10:03:54 pm

I was talking to a co-worker today about the development applications I use. I realized that I don’t upgrade often, I’ll find an application that works for me and I’ll stick with it and get experienced with using it…

A good example of this would be Photoshop, for any design work I use Photoshop 7.0 which was released back in 2002. I have used CS, CS2 and even beta tested CS3 and I have stuck with 7 because it’s super-lean, it works, and it offers all of the essential features I need. For FTP I use SmartFTP 1.0.9 which also just so happens to be released in 2002 and for an editor I just upgraded to Dreamweaver 8 just to check out what it has to offer, but I’ve been using MX for years.

It seems that a lot of people out there will update their apps not because of the additional features or completely changed functionality (notice I didn’t say better functionality) but because they want to have latest in software that has hardly changed from the version before. This concept can apply to any software too; operating systems, office applications, or something online such as a BBS or CMS.

On Tuesday, Adobe will announce the prices for the upcoming of Creative Suite 3.0 (CS3). As I mentioned I tried out Photoshop CS3 for a few weeks and there was almost no difference in features when compared to CS2. The worst part however is that the base functionality is identical to PS 7, all of the old features are there, unchanged, and very few new ones were added. For the people out there that pay for these $ 300-700 development applications this is a huge expense and companies are making a fortune off releasing old code over and over. I was reading a blog the other night which was authored by a programmer from Microsoft. He was talking about the work he did with early versions of IE and such and he went on about what kinds of code he has seen go into the modern Microsoft operating systems such as Vista and how a lot of it, for the OS itself dates back as far as Windows 3.1.

I thought that was interesting because it really makes you wonder how much you’re really getting out of that big $$ software upgrade.

Take a look at this

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 04/23/06 at 01:04:08 pm

I was working on a project today and I stumbled upon a great interview with Italian Professor MirKo Tattarini and artist Michael Cina. In the interview Mike stated “If you focus on the new trends, you are already behind in creating new ideas.” I think this is honestly a new favorite quote. I’ve always been a firm believer in thinking outside the box rather then following a trend. Even though this interview was about Cina and Young’s artwork this concept could and should be applied to anything and everything in society.

Anyway it’s a great interview with a couple of my personal favorite artists and it does a great job in defining what thinking outside the box really means. If you want to learn more check out the interview by clicking here

Cool FireFox Wallpapers

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 09/16/05 at 02:09:23 pm

Very nice FireFox wallpapers. High Quality.

read more | digg story

Copyright © 2008 Markus Langenfeld. Some Rights Reserved.
Version 26, Powered By WordPress & Professionally Hosted With A Small Orange.
Disclosure Policy | XML Sitemap