http://www.strangerpixel.com/blog web design and photography Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:16:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been pointed towards Bikeoff a couple of times now. 'An initiative of the Design Against Crime Research Centre', and based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, it's a laudable venture, and I'm looking forward to reading into it in much more detail. Bikeoff TV in particular ... http://www.strangerpixel.com/blog/web/bikeoff/ I really dig those business / tech / web / software gurus at 37signals. I like their products (I use Backpack and Basecamp daily) and I like their blog (Signal vs Noise is one of my favourite RSS subs). About three months ago I embarked on one of 37signals' workplace experiments: the ... http://www.strangerpixel.com/blog/news/smarter-shorter-working/ I made it down to a couple of screenings at the Bicycle Film Festival this weekend. On Friday night, I was at the Barbican (officially the worst sign-posted location in central London) to see Les Ninjas du Japon, a documentary about a Japanese road racing team competing in the Tour ... http://www.strangerpixel.com/blog/news/bicycle-film-festival-08/ A quick shout out to Jotta (formerly Fifzine), the creative arts portfolio website that has recently relaunched. I like the new design: it's certainly more navigable, and the lightbox widget seems to work well. Generally though I think Jotta are OK because they've featured one of my photographs on the ... http://www.strangerpixel.com/blog/web/jotta/ I'm wallowing in the half-comatose mix of exhaustion and elation that follows a long day in the saddle. Early this morning I was up to ride the Southern Sportive, a 155km route starting and finishing at Petersfield in the South Downs. It was a good, tough event that for me ... http://www.strangerpixel.com/blog/bike/southern-gold/ As a cyclist who regularly fritters away his surplus cash on cycle 'accessories', I quite like Wiggle - or at least when they're cheaper than top-dog Chain Reaction Cycles. Recently, however, their wasteful packaging has put me right off. Check this out: [caption id="attachment_121" align="alignnone" width="470" caption="Wiggle package arrives. Cue oohs ... http://www.strangerpixel.com/blog/bike/a-wiggle-packaging-scandal/ [caption id="attachment_112" align="alignnone" width="470" caption="Photo: Andy Budd"][/caption] On the train back from a workshop in Brighton for dConstruct, a programme of events and a conference hosted by design agency Clearleft. The theme of this year's dConstruct is "Designing the Social Web" - and my workshop was Wireframing 2.0: Designing for Definition. Wireframing ... http://www.strangerpixel.com/blog/web/dconstruct08-prototyping-workshop/ [caption id="attachment_108" align="alignnone" width="470" caption="My trip to Cornwall on Dopplr."][/caption] Not many of my friends have signed up on Dopplr, the 'online service for intelligent business travellers'. This is a shame, because I think it's a great website. Well, it certainly feels like a great website. The one thing Dopplr does ... http://www.strangerpixel.com/blog/photography/dopplr/ [caption id="attachment_98" align="alignnone" width="470" caption="St Stephen's Church, Edinburgh, 1961."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_99" align="alignnone" width="470" caption="Trafalgar Square, London, 1961."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_100" align="alignnone" width="470" caption="One-horse dray in Dame St., Dublin, 1961."][/caption] I've really enjoyed browsing the archives of amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman, who from 1938 until the '60s toured his native USA and the cities ... http://www.strangerpixel.com/blog/photography/back-to-some-old-times/ From what I've read lately, I expected itv.com's online video service to be a bit rubbish. I wasn't prepared for it to be spectacularly bad.  I've been trying to keep abreast of the Tour de France since it started on July 5th. Considering it's the world's biggest (and best - bike ... http://www.strangerpixel.com/blog/web/itvcom-worse-than-expected/