Christopher Brown

This is a test

C. R. Brown — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:40:04 +0000

This is a test post of a special blog entry.

Sokolove Law

C. R. Brown — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:45:18 +0000

Employer: BKV, Sokolove Law
Role: Consultant for design and coding of websites, over 20 landing pages, email marketing and animated banner ads. Worked with SEO and Media teams for tracking and response. Designed mobile WAP app for **lawyer.

Utilized Expression Engine, PHP, jQuery, CSS and Adobe CS4 to deliver financially successful results as well as recognition with a Webby nomination and several Direct Marketing Award wins.

Tokyo Scooters

C. R. Brown — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:56:17 +0000

Check out these hot scooters around Tokyo! I love Japan, and I really, really need to visit Tokyo and the countryside. I’d really like to spend some time living and working overseas before it’s too late.

In Japan, if it can be customized, it will be. And invariably it’s not just one or two bored school kids doing it in the garden shed. Subcultures grow and spread around the pimped up versions and the Big Scooter phenomenon is no exception. Here’s a look at some of Tokyo’s brightest, shiniest, blingiest scooters, that make the Vespa and its fans look oh so dull.

Hat tip Lech!

Hermann Zapf teaches you calligraphy

C. R. Brown — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:01:13 +0000

Malcolm Gladwell says that “talent is the desire to practice”, which I agree with, and after watching this I’m fairly certian Zapf probably spent close to 10,000 hours practicing.

The Art of Hermann Zapf from Johnny Dib on Vimeo.

Besides watching a masters hand at work, it’s enlightening to learn he was self taught and diligent at practice. From the article…

Mr. Zapf is a self taught typeface designer. It was during an exhibition in 1935 in honor of Rudolf Koch, when he got interested in calligraphy, so he purchased two books which introduced him to the art of calligraphy. Later he developed his craft with intensive periods of study at the Nuremberg City Library.

Cribbed from Parachute Fonts.

Revise those font stacks in CSS…

C. R. Brown — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:38:50 +0000

Via @quoo a reminder to not abide the usual and expand your expectations for font delivery. A well developed and considered Font Stack should be integral to a sites design.

http://www.awayback.com/revised-font-stack/

Solar Deck Lights

C. R. Brown — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:16:22 +0000

Way cool. I’d like to use these as an accent on an outside wall.

Sorapot

C. R. Brown — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:40:24 +0000

Love this Sorapot. via Greenhead

Horrifying stationery

C. R. Brown — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:22:54 +0000

Jacques Pense designed this award-winning stationery for 13th Street, the German horror network. It has given me a scorching case of stationery envy. If I got a letter on this stuff, I'd frame it and save it for my entire life.

13th Street "Stationery of Horror" (Design) on the Behance Network (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Previously:

Steve McQueen: LIFE Publishes 20 Never-Seen Photos

C. R. Brown — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:29:14 +0000

This shot of Steve McQueen posted by LIFE this week is the first image that has ever made me want to have a gun.

But really, I’d rather have his pad.

Found via Maury Postal

Masive Attack — Smashing the Atom

C. R. Brown — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:49:21 +0000

Directed by Edward Salier it is so good to have Massive Attack back on the scene its been about a minute since I was in a karmacoma.

Massive Attack-Splitting the Atom-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo.