November, 2007
The Email Standards Project
Wednesday, 28 November 2007 @ 20:41Despite my personal views on HTML email, HTML email is here to stay. However HTML email faces a large technical hurdle. Email as a communication medium was never designed to support HTML, rich text or even inline images. Today I discovered The Email Standards Project This organization wants to establish standards, thus ensuring that HTML emails can and will render consistently across major email clients. Hopefully this will catch on and make HTML email a much more pleasant experience for everyone. Just make sure to send “plain-text” to us email purists!
A merry Christmas card
Saturday, 24 November 2007 @ 16:38I received a most beautiful Christmas card in the mail this afternoon. I have been anxiously awaiting it’s arrival. The card is from my employer, Omniture, and was designed by my colleague and good friend, Steve Gustavson . The design is excellent and the production is breathtaking. We had the great pleasure of engaging the services of the extraordinary letter press artist Bryce Knudson this year and are sure you will enjoy the finished piece.
Utah PHP Users Group site redesign
Sunday, 18 November 2007 @ 16:31I had the pleasure of finishing a pro bono web project last night. Coming up on their fourth anniversary, the Utah PHP Users Group sought a fresh face to better reflect their maturity and depth. Several new features were also added as well as many usability enhancements. My primary goal was to strip away the clutter so that users could find what they were looking for and the content could be digested easily. I also automated several components with custom modules elevating regular human maintenance or moderation.
Beautiful new stationary system for UPB
Friday, 16 November 2007 @ 16:31Struck has designed a new stationary system for the Utah Paperbox Company and it is beautiful. I wish that I could touch it, lift it, smell it. The work is very good.
Utah Paperbox is one of a kind. At the top of their game, they manufacture the highest quality boxes. Period. So when they approached us about revamping their one-hundred-year-old brand, it made sense to focus on the processes that make them exceptional. By using die cuts and scores, we created what we like to call, “interactive print.” In other words, each piece interacts and alludes to the next. For example, a die cut in the folded letterhead reveals the color on the back through the logo. When the card is folded correctly, the logo box pops off the card.”
