Category Archives: fun

walking paper cross stitch

An amazing gift! The color scheme matches the site perfectly.

New Creating Future Libraries Notebooks Coming Soon

Immediately after the first run of Creating the Future for Libraries notebooks were released and sold out I started taking orders for the next batch. I had an idea of what I wanted to do for the second version but it took me a few attempts to be happy with the design. [...]

lithuanian library websites look nice

I don’t speak or read Lithuanian and you probably don’t either. Good thing that nice design transcends language. Take a look at these beautiful sites.
The first image is the homepage of a big Lithuanian library wiki called Grazi tu Mano.

And *this!* This is the start page for a library run Alternate Reality [...]

batman vs. taxes display

I am quite smitten with this display and am even more pleased that it was made by a coworker of mine. Shannon Lee at the Petworth Neighborhood Library of the DCPL put this together. The display is entertaining, eye-catching, and timely.

i redesigned itunes and it looks better

Apple has a bunch of really talented software designers and UX people on staff. This being the case, I’m not really sure how the iPhone screen in iTunes got to be so jumbled looking. The text is justified in one strange place (orange line) while there are so many other opportunities to clean [...]