I met Yaron Schoen at SXSW in 2010— where we came up with the idea for DesignSwap. After launching the site with our own swap last year, and seeing a couple more great ones follow, we realized we want to see more swaps more often. Now DesignSwap is open to everyone. We’ve swapped the sign up list for an open invitation, and encourage you to partner up & get... Read more →
I love being one-third of Paravel. I don’t know how other web shops work, but I do know that I like how we roll. It’s taken some hard work to build the team as well as the company, but I wouldn’t trade all the psds, lines of code and fisticuffs for anything. With that in mind, I thought a brief, selective glance over the past few years might be... Read more →
Originally when I CSSed the round avatars on the DesignSwap comments area, I used the -webkit-mask-image property. I was really proud of how neat and effective this was until I realized you could apply border-radius to an image directly. To achieve a round avatar with a 2px beige border, I applied the following CSS to an avatar loading within a div class called avatar-frame. .avatar-frame{border: 2px solid #c7b89e;}... Read more →
While Yaron Schoen and I were in the early planning stages of DesignSwap, we realized that we’d need something really special to showcase the designer profiles for each swap. Our immediate thought was to get in touch with Kyle Steed, who we both met at SXSW, and see if he’d be interested in jumping on board. Fortunately he said yes and is now illustrating swapper head shots. I... Read more →
Hopefully this post will not create the same response as when Orson Wells narrated the War of the Worlds on the radio. I don’t want anyone jumping out of any windows or anything. Please, no need to worry, I didn’t really take over Trent’s blog... only this post. MUHAHAHA. What you are seeing is a post written and designed by your’s truly Yaron Schoen. Why you may ask?... Read more →
