This is her design studio website containing all her work. You can see looking at both how the references she posts on the blog is an important part of her creative process and often used in her work.
29/04/2009
mariana newlands * casa timotheo website
This is her design studio website containing all her work. You can see looking at both how the references she posts on the blog is an important part of her creative process and often used in her work.
mariana newlands * interlúdio blog
This is Mariana Newland's blog called interlúdio. It is the best example I have found of how a blog can be used not only as a designer's virtual sketchbook. In it she posts her references, pictures, working process, illustrations etc.
Future of the blog..article by Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur, author, and critic of the internet.
Sunday, 19 April 2009
Blogs are dead; long live the blog
Is blogging dead? Last year, questioning the future of the iconic weblog would have had me institutionalized. But today, in the face of the dramatic explosion of real-time social media services like Twitter, the future of blogging is far from certain.
It’s not just me questioning the blog. Last week, I was in Amsterdam, with a thousand of my closest new media friends, at The Next Web, one of Europe’s biggest and best tech conferences. And the words whispered in the Next Web hallways about the future of blogging weren’t always promising for the venerable digital institution. Some pundits at Next Web – such as Hermione Way, the London based founder of Newspepper and the presenter of Techfluff – have even begun to pen their obits to the blog. “Blogging as we know it is dead,” Way told me over dinner one evening at Amsterdam’s Loup restaurant. “It’s finished.”
Are these reports about the death of blogging exaggerated? At that same Loup dinner that Way announced the death of blogging, Matt Mullenweg, the San Francisco based co-founder of the open-source blog company WordPress, announced its resurrection.
“Blogs will become aggregation points,” the shamefully youthful, soft-spoken Mullenweg explained, as he mapped out the future of blogging for me between bites of Dutch smoked salmon. “They will become our personal hub. Places where we store all our personal media content such as our flickr photos and Twitter posts.”
I suspect that Mullenweg is right. When blogging was invented in the late Nineties by my dear Berkeley friend and neighbor Dave Winer, it represented an easy self-publishing tool, a simple way to publish dirty great lumps of one’s own static text. But just as the Internet has dramatically evolved over the last ten years from a self-publishing into a real-time broadcasting platform, so blogging is transforming itself with equally dramatic vigor.
With its 10 to 15 million users and blue chip media clients like the New York Times, CNN and the Wall Street Journal, Mullenweg’s WordPress epitomizes these changes. What distinguishes WordPress from some of its competitors is its open-source foundations. This open architecture has fostered an free ecosystem of 5,000 plug-ins that enable WordPress users to do everything from incorporate their Twitter feeds, videos and photos, to even managing their own independent record label.
And last week, WordPress released two new products – Buddy Press and P2 -- that underline Mullenweg’s vision of the blog as an aggregation point for all our media information. Mullenweg described Buddy Press to me as “Facebook in a box” – technology which enables WordPress users to create their own public or private social networks around their blog. While P2 is “Twitter in a box” which, according to Mullenweg, transforms the traditional WordPress blog into a real-time media experience.
So who is right about the future of the blog, Hermione Way or Matt Mullenweg? They both are, of course. The old static blog is indeed dying. But it’s being resurrected by Wordpress as a real-time social media personal portal. The blog is dead; long live the blog.
Jilly p. graphics blog
http://jillypgraphics.blogspot.com/
Found this blog through links on www.printpattern.blogspot.com. It's great to find a good designer's blog that links through to other designer's blogs doing related work. In that respect a blog can be an effective searching tool.
Found this blog through links on www.printpattern.blogspot.com. It's great to find a good designer's blog that links through to other designer's blogs doing related work. In that respect a blog can be an effective searching tool.
buraco de bala * website
Buraco de Bala is a brazilian animation and design studio that used to have a static website and have just updated, not only its layout but also created a blog where they post they post what they are currently working on - including the sketches and process in their animation 'drawings', news and portfolio.
Blogger - Inside view
I thought since we've been talking about blogs, blogger and websites I'd give an inside view of roughly how the 'creating a new post' actually works. From posting to editing; uploading pictures and composing layout to templates.
Page from DailyBrad.com with ridiculous video
http://www.bradlands.com/weblog/1999-09.shtml
This is a page from bradland which is mentioned in the Gaurdian article Laura posted. There is a ridiculous video on it. This is just one person's personal website about his life, a diary of his life.
The blog is a great tool for designers to create a digital sketchbook for posting their ideas, things that inspire them. As designers we source so much material on the internet these days, that it is useful to have a screen based sketchbook as well as a traditional sketchbook. Are blog diaries less authentic though as the authors know that they will be seen?
Simple as falling off a blog
Websites that are easy to update are just 10 minutes away.
The best websites are constantly evolving, with new content being added to keep readers coming back for more.
The trouble is, keeping a website up to date can be a fiddle. At best you have to open up your web page authoring program and amend your pages there, before uploading them to your ISP. At worst you have to delve into the raw HTML code that makes up the page, and change it all by hand. You might get better with practice, but it is still a deterrent.
One solution to this problem is the weblog, or "blog". A blog is a fairly simple web page which has short, diary-like entries added in at the top. This is fast to produce, makes it clear when you have updated the page, and keeps the older material below so infrequent visitors can catch up.
Blogs are now hugely popular, for all sorts of subjects. Some review other websites, while others exist as a centrepoint to an online community of interest. Others are used to keep colleagues in touch with each other, or manage projects. There are also a huge number that contain vaguely confessional musings - a new web style which for many has come to define what a blog is. A good example of this form is the Daily Brad at www.bradlands.com/dailybrad.
Blogs are, in short, hugely versatile. And, to make things even easier, there is a web service that makes setting up your own blog a 10-minute process. The blog can then be incorporated in your own website, or posted on a special server.
Blogger is the service used to create the Daily Brad and thousands of other blogs across the net. These are the 10 simple steps to setting up your own.
1 Register with the site.
Happily, Blogger does not demand too much information. Go to www.blogger.com and fill in the Sign Up! box in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. You'll arrive at another screen that asks for your name and email address. After you complete that screen, you'll be returned to the front page.
2 Click on Create a Blog
You will then be asked to name your page, and provide a description. You will be able to amend these later, if you want. You will also be given the option to advertise your blog in public, although if you choose "no" it will not be completely secure - just unadvertised.
3 Choose a location for your blog
Blogger.com then asks if you want to have your blog put in its own home at the free, but advertising-supported, Blogspot.com. This is the easiest option for beginners; you can always move it later if you want. If you choose this option, you will be asked to choose a "subdomain" for your website - this will form the unique part of the web address of your blog (See www.yoursite.blogspot.com) You might find popular words are already used, so this might take a few attempts. When you have chosen an acceptable name, you arrive at the template screen. Move straight to step 4.
The alternative for the more experienced web master is to have the blog incorporated in your own site. If you already have a website and know how it was set up, this is the neatest option. You will need to tell Blogger.com the FTP address of your site, the file path for the blogger page, as well as the file name and eventual URL of that page. You will need to enter further server details on the settings screen, off the editing screen (see panel).
Note that Blogger will not be able to upload its pages to your webspace if you use a webspace provider which only allows you to update your pages when connected to their dial-up service. Possibly for this reason, Blogger is known not to work with AOL's free web space.
The simplest workaround, apart from getting new webspace that allows FTP access from anywhere, is to use Blogger's own servers to host your blog, and create a link to the blog from your site.
More HTML-savvy readers could, alternatively, create a framed page on their site which calls up the blog page held on Blogger's servers.
4 Choose a template for your blog
Pick a basic layout for your page from four options. Click on Finish!
5 The Blogger editing screen
You now arrive at the page from which most of the work is done for your blog. In the top half of the screen is the input window, where you type what you want to appear on your page. In the bottom half of the screen is a preview window, which shows what your entries will look like when published.
6 Type your first entries
To get your blog started, type your first entry in to the editing window. See the panel on this page for an explanation of the various buttons on this screen.
7 Creating web links and headlines
It is possible to add HTML tags to your entries, which can do things like create links to other web pages and create larger text for headlines. For instance, to get larger text simply type "This is a headline ". To create a link, type: "Here is a link to my website ". The word "website" will be a clickable link.
8 Preview entry
Click on the post button to see how your new entry will look.
9 Amending entries
Click on the [edit] link at the end of the entry you want to change.
10 Finished entry
When you are happy with your first weblog, click on the Post and Publish button. Your weblog will be available for the world to see!
This, of course, is only the beginning. The beauty of Blogger is that it starts out easy, but allows you to get as complicated as you like. You can change the templates to create a more sophisticated look, for instance. Blogger has a useful help section - just click on the help button in the editing window.
Buttons
The editing window has several important buttons
Posts brings up the main editing screen
Settings allows you to change the important information for your site, like where it is to be published. You can also enter and amend server details, including the username and password, if you are FTPing your pages.
Template allows users more expert in HTML to customise their own blog templates.
Archive allows you to archive, or republish, parts of your blog.
Team allows you to set who has access to edit your blog - useful if you want several people to be able to post to the blog.
My blogs allows you to switch between blogs, if you have several.
Post takes the words you have typed in to the top box on the editing screen and puts them in the preview pane below, showing you how it would look when published.
Post and Publish both updates the Preview pane, and uploads your new words to the blog that can be seen by passing readers.
The Guardian, Thursday 5 April 2001
Neil McIntosh
The best websites are constantly evolving, with new content being added to keep readers coming back for more.
The trouble is, keeping a website up to date can be a fiddle. At best you have to open up your web page authoring program and amend your pages there, before uploading them to your ISP. At worst you have to delve into the raw HTML code that makes up the page, and change it all by hand. You might get better with practice, but it is still a deterrent.
One solution to this problem is the weblog, or "blog". A blog is a fairly simple web page which has short, diary-like entries added in at the top. This is fast to produce, makes it clear when you have updated the page, and keeps the older material below so infrequent visitors can catch up.
Blogs are now hugely popular, for all sorts of subjects. Some review other websites, while others exist as a centrepoint to an online community of interest. Others are used to keep colleagues in touch with each other, or manage projects. There are also a huge number that contain vaguely confessional musings - a new web style which for many has come to define what a blog is. A good example of this form is the Daily Brad at www.bradlands.com/dailybrad.
Blogs are, in short, hugely versatile. And, to make things even easier, there is a web service that makes setting up your own blog a 10-minute process. The blog can then be incorporated in your own website, or posted on a special server.
Blogger is the service used to create the Daily Brad and thousands of other blogs across the net. These are the 10 simple steps to setting up your own.
1 Register with the site.
Happily, Blogger does not demand too much information. Go to www.blogger.com and fill in the Sign Up! box in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. You'll arrive at another screen that asks for your name and email address. After you complete that screen, you'll be returned to the front page.
2 Click on Create a Blog
You will then be asked to name your page, and provide a description. You will be able to amend these later, if you want. You will also be given the option to advertise your blog in public, although if you choose "no" it will not be completely secure - just unadvertised.
3 Choose a location for your blog
Blogger.com then asks if you want to have your blog put in its own home at the free, but advertising-supported, Blogspot.com. This is the easiest option for beginners; you can always move it later if you want. If you choose this option, you will be asked to choose a "subdomain" for your website - this will form the unique part of the web address of your blog (See www.yoursite.blogspot.com) You might find popular words are already used, so this might take a few attempts. When you have chosen an acceptable name, you arrive at the template screen. Move straight to step 4.
The alternative for the more experienced web master is to have the blog incorporated in your own site. If you already have a website and know how it was set up, this is the neatest option. You will need to tell Blogger.com the FTP address of your site, the file path for the blogger page, as well as the file name and eventual URL of that page. You will need to enter further server details on the settings screen, off the editing screen (see panel).
Note that Blogger will not be able to upload its pages to your webspace if you use a webspace provider which only allows you to update your pages when connected to their dial-up service. Possibly for this reason, Blogger is known not to work with AOL's free web space.
The simplest workaround, apart from getting new webspace that allows FTP access from anywhere, is to use Blogger's own servers to host your blog, and create a link to the blog from your site.
More HTML-savvy readers could, alternatively, create a framed page on their site which calls up the blog page held on Blogger's servers.
4 Choose a template for your blog
Pick a basic layout for your page from four options. Click on Finish!
5 The Blogger editing screen
You now arrive at the page from which most of the work is done for your blog. In the top half of the screen is the input window, where you type what you want to appear on your page. In the bottom half of the screen is a preview window, which shows what your entries will look like when published.
6 Type your first entries
To get your blog started, type your first entry in to the editing window. See the panel on this page for an explanation of the various buttons on this screen.
7 Creating web links and headlines
It is possible to add HTML tags to your entries, which can do things like create links to other web pages and create larger text for headlines. For instance, to get larger text simply type "This is a headline ". To create a link, type: "Here is a link to my website ". The word "website" will be a clickable link.
8 Preview entry
Click on the post button to see how your new entry will look.
9 Amending entries
Click on the [edit] link at the end of the entry you want to change.
10 Finished entry
When you are happy with your first weblog, click on the Post and Publish button. Your weblog will be available for the world to see!
This, of course, is only the beginning. The beauty of Blogger is that it starts out easy, but allows you to get as complicated as you like. You can change the templates to create a more sophisticated look, for instance. Blogger has a useful help section - just click on the help button in the editing window.
Buttons
The editing window has several important buttons
Posts brings up the main editing screen
Settings allows you to change the important information for your site, like where it is to be published. You can also enter and amend server details, including the username and password, if you are FTPing your pages.
Template allows users more expert in HTML to customise their own blog templates.
Archive allows you to archive, or republish, parts of your blog.
Team allows you to set who has access to edit your blog - useful if you want several people to be able to post to the blog.
My blogs allows you to switch between blogs, if you have several.
Post takes the words you have typed in to the top box on the editing screen and puts them in the preview pane below, showing you how it would look when published.
Post and Publish both updates the Preview pane, and uploads your new words to the blog that can be seen by passing readers.
The Guardian, Thursday 5 April 2001
Neil McIntosh
Blog - some definitions and facts
"... a weblog is defined, these days, by its format: a frequently updated webpage with date entries, new ones placed on top... The progenitors of the weblog movement adopted this format as a matter of convenience, so that visitors could instantly see their latest update, and whether it had been made a week, a day or an hour ago."
"... links with commentary, updated frequently..."
"Since the earliest weblogs had required at least a rudimentary level of coding skill, the people who made them tended to be computer programmers and webdesigners."
"When software developers set out to create tools to help people manage weblogs, it was natural that they would focus on the site's format rather than their function."
"Once literally anyone could make a weblog, literally anyone did... Just as email made us all writers, weblogs made all of us publishers."
after the weblogs, the web is now a two way medium.
1999 > introduction of BLOGGER
The definition of Blog has gone:
... from 'a list of links with commentary and personal asides' to ' a website that is updated frequently, with new material posted at the top of the page'.
Rebecca Blood - We've got blog.
"Typically, a weblog is a small website, usually maintained by one person that is updated on a regular basis and has a high concentration of repeat visitors. Weblogs often are highly focused around a singular subject, and underlying theme or unifying conpcept."
Cameron Barrett - Anatomy of a weblog - We've got blog.
"... links with commentary, updated frequently..."
"Since the earliest weblogs had required at least a rudimentary level of coding skill, the people who made them tended to be computer programmers and webdesigners."
"When software developers set out to create tools to help people manage weblogs, it was natural that they would focus on the site's format rather than their function."
"Once literally anyone could make a weblog, literally anyone did... Just as email made us all writers, weblogs made all of us publishers."
after the weblogs, the web is now a two way medium.
1999 > introduction of BLOGGER
The definition of Blog has gone:
... from 'a list of links with commentary and personal asides' to ' a website that is updated frequently, with new material posted at the top of the page'.
Rebecca Blood - We've got blog.
"Typically, a weblog is a small website, usually maintained by one person that is updated on a regular basis and has a high concentration of repeat visitors. Weblogs often are highly focused around a singular subject, and underlying theme or unifying conpcept."
Cameron Barrett - Anatomy of a weblog - We've got blog.
More about Build's blog
What is also interesting is the link to Flickr to see their photography. Designers are now publishing their work in various ways on the web, rather than having everything on a website. So there are different areas on the web for different categories of work..for example - flickr. Flickr is like one big global archive of photography.
Build's website which includes blog
This is a great website because not only is it a showcase for their portfolio but it also includes their blog. You get to look at their portfolio but through the blog you get an insight into how they think and work, what their inspiration is. A blog gives an immediacy that you don't get with a website. You get to know the personality behind the work. There is nowhere on the website for viewers/readers to comment though, only email contact info. They are not opening up a dialogue with their readers and in this way are keeping their privacy which is not the case with a lot of blogs.
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