http://prescient-media.com We build beautiful, functional websites that put usability first — which means Google loves them as much as our clients do. Let us build you one. You'll be happy you did. Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:15:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://prescient-media.com/2010/01/italian-daydreams/ Browsing through the inspiring gallery of winning designs from the Society of Publication Designers' 2008 competition, I came across this image, a Merit Award winner in the front/back of book category by designer/art director Eva Spring and illustrator Alli Arnold: Aside from the charm and simplicity of the image, what struck ... http://prescient-media.com/2009/09/the-beauty-of-the-flying-shoe/ It's impossible to study typography without turning into a bit of what the great Erik Spiekermann calls a typomaniac: [It's] an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it, I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it. ... Other people like looking at ... http://prescient-media.com/2009/09/typography-fun-and-games/ I hadn't had a proper fix since Alki1's International Typographic Style photo set on Flickr. Then I ran across the blog of Jessica Hische, a Brooklyn-based designer and illustrator who specializes in hand lettering. Really pretty hand lettering. http://prescient-media.com/2009/08/typography-porn/ WordCamp NYC, a two-day conference of WordPress users, designers, developers, educators and enthusiasts in NYC, is still a few months off -- Nov. 14-15 -- but the event's logo competition deadline is coming up fast: Aug. 31. It's too good a chance to pass up. As the call for entries points ... http://prescient-media.com/2009/08/wordpress-nyc-logo-competition/ Twitter poll shocker -- or not -- from a cleverly tech-news-making study by Pear Analytics: more tweets fall in the category of "Pointless Babble" (40.55%) than any other (News, Spam, Self-Promotion, Conversational and Pass-Along Value). There's plenty to dispute in the categorization, methodology, and meaning of the results, but one of ... http://prescient-media.com/2009/08/more-pointless-babble-on-twitter-than-well-anything-else/ Being as big a fan as I am of Wordpress -- which powers this site and many others I've built -- I couldn't miss the opportunity to share a little guidance I recently offered a web designer friend who's new to Wordpress via e-mail: The best place to start if you ... http://prescient-media.com/2009/08/a-little-wordpress-love/ Drop in on the freshly-launched website of Baconfest Chicago -- and if you can, drop in on the festival itself on Oct. 25! This isn't the first Baconfest in the country, but there isn't a square inch of America where it fits better. A dangerously delicious time guaranteed for all. http://prescient-media.com/2009/07/prescient-media-puts-baconfest-chicago-online/ http://prescient-media.com/2009/07/baconfest-chicago/ As brutal as the New York weather has been in recent weeks -- and promises to be for at least another week -- the rain last Sunday was just sporadic enough to let much of the Make Music NYC festival go off as planned: 850 concerts of every conceivable type ... http://prescient-media.com/2009/06/prescient-media-designs-for-the-new-lines/