typestorming
Update as it happens
2007March 28
Featuritis
2007March 08
The Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife demonstrates why more features don’t mean better usability.
monocle
2007March 08
Christina recently showed me an article about a new magazine called monocle.—Christina always got her feelers out for interesting stuff in the design, architecture, photography, art and fashion worlds and makes sure everyone at wollzelle sees the highlight. She has a real knack of picking out exactly those things that later become successful.
The designer Tyler Brûlé is the creator of the new magazine. Ten years ago he launched the very successful wallpaper magazine focused on design, architecture, ... simply anything and everything (beautiful) that surrounds us.
We are from a second school of thought that firmly believes that there is room to talk to a globetrotting audience that is interested in news and information that is not delivered along national boundaries.
Tyler Brûlé
The first issue of the new book ahm magazine has 244 pages and over 50.000 words. Brûlé is not interested in market research he simply invents his market on his own and already proved that concept with the wallpaper magazine.
Sounds promising so far! A bit disillusioning was the fact that after I finished the annual subscription I got this small hint:
I subscribed 3 weeks ago so I can tell you a bit more in about 5 weeks though …
talks ...
2007March 06
Last week Thomas Fuchs—feels odd to mention surnames but sometimes people screw up with the two-Thomases-thing at wollzelle ;)—gave a talk about Prototype and script.aculo.us at metalab, a non-profit association at a cool location in the first district here in Vienna. Next time you’re near the first district you should check it out, there are people around almost 24 hours a day.
The talk was not really announced, so here are some official dates where you can meet at least one of the wollzelle team in the near future:
1 QCon
Thomas Fuchs at QCon London, March 12-16, 2007. The talk gives an overview about the concepts and functionality of both Prototype and the script.aculo.us libraries, provides advice on what and what not to expect and gives pointers and hints on how to get started. Details
2 MultiMediaArt
Thomas Pamminger at MultiMediaArt, April 11, 2007 6:45pm. Invited by the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (branch of study MultiMediaArt) I will give a talk about what we’ve learned building the web app fluxiom and why web designers will do more in the future (or: working with developers). Details
3 Railsconf 07
Thomas Fuchs at Railsconf 2007 May 17-20, 2007. Thomas does a tutorial where you can learn how to create your own swooshy effects with the script.aculo.us effects engine and the utter secrets of all the new shiny things in Prototype and how to put them to full use. Thomas and I will be in Portland (I just wonder if we are the only two austrians over there?) Details
