Art, Design, Code
I am launching a couple of new websites this week. One of them is Design Briefs, a public collection for Design Education Assignments. Design Briefs is a project that results from my classes at Eracom Lausanne, where I have the pleasure of teaching web fundamentals to graphic design students. I started collecting ideas for future design…
Read more "Design Briefs"Je viens de publier une nouvelle extension, pour une meilleure intégration des films Vimeo dans un site WordPress. Cette extension sera particulièrement utile si vous avez des “murs de vidéos” à afficher: Dans ce genre cas, l’appel à une iframe individuelle pour chaque vidéo a un impact dramatique sur le chargement de la page. Pour…
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Projet réalisé avec des élèves de l’Eracom, classe GR341, printemps 2016 Snowfalling Depuis l’emblématique publication de l’article “Snow Fall” (réalisé par l’équipe multimédia-web du New York Times en décembre 2012 et couronné par le prix Pulitzer), on a vu émerger un mouvement de design cherchant à réinventer les modes de lecture pour les textes journalistiques…
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Nouveau graphisme pour le site de la salle de concert genevoise Cave12.
Read more "Cave12, version 3"This is a concept paper that describes a very simple plugin that handles event management in WordPress. Q: There are hundreds of plugins doing exactly this — why a new one? A: All the plugins I tested are more complicated than needed. I tried many of them. I think that my concept is more simple,…
Read more "Minimalistic event management for WP"The website of Cave12, a nomadic concert venue presenting adventurous music in Geneva since 2001, is one of my oldest webdesign efforts, and has been undergoing minimal changes since the first, bare-bones html version back in the early 2000s. In addition to migrating the site into a CMS in 2009, I gradually applied some under-the-hood…
Read more "Site optimizations for Cave12"Notes de travail, bref aperçu de l’évolution de la formule magique pour intégrer des polices web (via l’attribut CSS @font-face) dans un maximum de navigateurs sans provoquer de bugs… Chronologie mars 2008: Safari 3.1 supporte @font-face 31 octobre 2008: Jon Tan présente une technique CSS pour appliquer @font-face dans IE et Safari. juin 2009: Firefox…
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A website for artists Fabiana de Barros and Michel Favre. Running on the WordPress content management platform.
Read more "Fabmic.ch"While analyzing the slow agony of IE6 in this recent post, I noticed some curious trends that motivated me to investigate further. There have been many headlines earlier this month about Firefox taking over the lead from Internet Explorer in Pan-European browsing statistics (see the New York Times or the Guardian for instance). Since Europe…
Read more "Browser Wars in Europe: the Great East-West Divide"During the first days of 2011, I went to check the status of Internet Explorer 6 usage on http://gs.statcounter.com … and it’s good to see that this browser’s mindshare is constantly shrinking — between October and December 2010, it went from 3.1 to 2.3% in the US, and from 2.9 to 2.4% in Europe. It’s…
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