Placehold.it
Placehold.it is a “quick and simple image placeholder service” for web designers and developers. To use, simply format the URL with the image size details of your choice and the image is created dynamically. For example, the following URL generated the image above: http://www.placehold.it/570×300. Various image formats, colors, and placeholder text can also be specified.
DC Gets their print on at SVC
Design Commission is participating in the 9th annual Wayzgoose at School Of Visual Concepts.
What is a Wayzgoose you ask yourself? It’s a centuries-old celebration of the honored craft of letterpress printing. While The School of Visual Concepts’ Wayzgoose doesn’t date back quite so far, the ninth edition of this free, family-friendly event promises to be bigger, better, and Wayzgoosier than ever. The event will include steamroller printing, a marketplace, an equipment swap, and demonstrations.
We here at DC have been asked to participate in the Steamroller Smack Down. An event at the Wayzgoose where local design firms and artists are challenged to produce a poster which will then be printed in the SVC parking lot using a two-ton steamroller. The posters printed from this friendly competition will be auctioned off to the public to help continue the letterpress programs at SVC.
All of us here at DC will be putting our heads together to come up with something supremely Wayzgoosey for the event and look forward to the festivities.
Come and Join us on Saturday, August 28th, between 1-6pm
(DC will be delivering the smack-down from 1 – 2:15; free autographs from 2:15 – 2:17)
School of Visual Concepts, 500 Aurora Ave. N.,
Seattle, just east of the Seattle Center
For more information check out theSVC website and their Facebook page.
Support Details
While trying to recreate/fix bugs uncovered by clients, I often find myself asking questions such as “what browser are you using?” and “what version of Flash do you have installed?”. As some clients are less tech-savvy than others, these questions are not always easily answered.
There is hope however. Imulus Design + Interactive has developed www.supportdetails.com, a simple web application that allows your clients to send you all the relevant details of their setup by just entering their email address and name and your email address. In fact, they don’t even have to do that much if you direct them to a “customized” link with the relevant contact info already entered (Mac geek tip: setup a TextExpander snippet of the link pre-filled with your email address as the recipient).
Check out http://www.supportdetails.com