Carsonified’s designer Mike Kus talked about the importance of graphic design in websites. It seems obvious, and the best thing I took away from the talk was to keep trying to break conventions and not just copy other websites. It’s something I unfortunately do when I have to quickly get inspiration - head straight for a CSS gallery site. I need to stop doing this, I need to embrace design from other things in life, from beer coasters to building architecture. Hopefully this might become apparent in my blog design…when I get around to it.
He also showed a video of him preparing his talk slides. Very cool and excellent soundtrack. Will try and get hold of it.