In All Reality

We often don’t think about what would happen to our online content (created, bookmarked, or otherwise) if the services we use went away. Smashing Magazine had an incident recently that got me thinking about the trust we put in our favorite service and content providers, and how we’ve yet to experience the Internet equivalent of a mass extinction.

Sometimes you make an observation that must be written down for posterity, a thing that you constantly ruminate but yet never seem to place into words. Sitting at a traffic light, I was finally able to take one such ambiguous viewpoint and crystallize it into something worth sharing.

It has been a little less than four months since I married my wife. These are my reflections on that day and some of the events leading up to it; a brief narrative of a day that is already blurry but will (paradoxically) be burned into my mind for the rest of my life.

Part seven in the Design series of collaborative conversation exercises. Matthew Stublefield explains how design ability isn’t everything, and that other skillsets exist to compliment visual representation.

Part six in the our Design series of collaborative conversation exercises. Matthew Stublefield examines the content behind the presentation, and how design serves little purpose without something of quality to promote.

Part five in the latest series of collaborative conversation exercises. We explore a bit more about the alternate uses and definitions of design, specifically in regard to how it is used in propaganda, politics, and warfare.

Part four in the latest series of collaborative conversation exercises. Matthew Stublefield takes a look at how design affects communication – from a writer’s standpoint. “Just like in poetry, the goal of anything design-related is to communicate an idea. If you’re not communicating, you’re failing.”

Part three in the latest series of collaborative conversation exercises. In this article, writer Matthew Stublefield from SilverPen Publishing explores the relationship of design, architecture, emotion, and a deep satisfaction gained from a union of these areas.

Part two in the latest series of collaborative conversation exercises. In this article, writer Steve Moore from theSpigot talks about the purpose of design and branding, and the questions of subjectivity versus results.

Part one in the latest series of collaborative conversation exercises. In this series, we examine Design and all of the surrounding aspects that term brings to the table. What is it? Why is it useful? Where do we see it? How does it change us? I lead off with some thoughts on what exactly Design is, and why there is more to it than meets the eye.