Gorilla-Studios

100 days in Glacier National Park

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:25:25 +0000

A beautiful photo set from a photographer who spent 100 days in Glacier National Park. This is definitely is kindling my long lost love of photography. Looking at these kills me because I haven’t taken my camera out for anything serious in over a year.

Time to kick my butt into gear and get my camera out soon.

Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:49:26 +0000

An article from 2008 with Brad Bird, director of The Incredibles on fostering innovation and Pixar’s company culture.

I have read and re-read this article many many times and I hope I am privileged enough to work with people like him.

Mac Portable Teardown

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:07:49 +0000

Technologizer has a fantastic tear-down of the original Macintosh Portable. Its amazing how far we have come in the last 20 years.

Meet The Elements

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:07:43 +0000

Design’s Just Dessert

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:23:59 +0000

It’s safe to say that I am obsessed with design. I mentally critique just about everything I see on a daily basis on how it’s put together, how usable or readable it is. I’m constantly nitpicking tiny details in web design and technology. My girlfriend gets annoyed when I complain about my cellphone menu being laid out the way it is, or a web page design choice.

I came across a wonderful article on AIGA by Kenneth FitzGerald
comparing a Mac to a box of cake mix and design to dessert. Its a thought-provoking read, definitely worth looking at.

“ I urge students to aspire to pastry chef status as graphic designers. They should select choice ingredients, carefully consider the utensils they employ and eschew default choices. This isn’t to run down cake mix product, which I often enjoy. It’s a satisfactory and convenient option when you want a treat. With a little embellishment, it can be especially tasty.”

Enjoy

Ms Domestic Darling – New Identity

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:57:39 +0000

A close friend of mine recently asked me for some design help with her new blog and after a lot of humming and hawing with a few false starts, we got on the right track and came up with a new identity & logo for Ms. Domestic Darling. The logo was created by scanning a few sketches into the computer and using Adobe Illustrator to create a sharp, colorful, vector-based logo.

Check out her blog at MsDomesticDarling.com.

Enjoy

Apollo 11 – 40th Anniversary

admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:01:32 +0000

Im a tech geek, and I have been fascinated by NASA’s space program ever since I was a little kid. I thought I would post up some links to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the moon landing.

Some incredible photos from one of my favorite blogs The Big Picture.

I want to meet Buzz Aldrin mainly because he landed on the moon, but partly because he punched a conspiracy theory nut bar in the face.

President Kennedy’s famous speech at Rice University declaring the goal of getting to the moon by the end of the decade.

Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog post from 2001 tearing apart the conspiracy theories one by one.

Adam Savage on the value of failing

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:27:22 +0000

GREAT talk at this years Makers Faire

Visual Decision Making

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:22:34 +0000

A great article from A List Apart about visual aesthetics in web design.

Site migration underway

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:13:03 +0000

For a while now Gorilla-Studios has lead a secret double life – one standard PHP/HTML site along with a WP Powered site hidden behind the scenes. Over the next few days I will be migrating the site over to a WP powered version. I’ve decided to go with WordPress to save me some headaches with tracking posts, RSS Feeds, etc. There are some downsides though, WP is built for beginners with little web experience, and since I make a living from web-development there are some WP functionalities & practices that drive me up a wall.

However, the site should be gaining more and more functionality in the coming weeks, hope you enjoy.

- Chris