JungleDragon breakthrough: Amazon S3 to the rescue

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The time has come to close down the blogging year. In this entry is an overview of my year.

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Using two external displays on a laptop

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I've designed a first JungleDragon logo, please come have a look and rate it!

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Campaign to open source Domino - update

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Book Review: Building Scalable Websites, the Flickr way

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This is to announce that my hosting move has completed. My portfolio site is online again, faster than ever.

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If you have followed the web design community recently, you may have spotted the grunge trend. Grunge is like an anti-movement to web 2.0 design. Instead of spotless, reflective, perfectly rounded graphics with bright colors, grunge is about organic, complex, damaged and dirty graphics. This trends does not only occur in web design: damaged jeans cost more than spotless jeans and damaged oak wooden floors are way more expensive than the plain ones.

I have experimented with an artificial aging process for plain white printer paper that involves both "analog" methods (coffee, candles) and digital methods in order to accomplish the grunge look. The result is an article that explains the process. At the end is a goodie: a free 5-pack of aged paper textures in ultra-high resolution (4600 x 7000, the amount of detail is insane, as is the file size!)

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This article explains how you can use simple paper, and make it look really old by processes both analog and digital. The result fits nicely into the latest web design trend: the Grunge look. At the end of the article is a goodie: a free pack of ultra-high grunge papers made by me!

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a small update concerning s3maphor3.org, my portfolio site

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