Grab your wallets! Reagan just opened up the shop section of his website. He’s been designing & screen printing posters this spring, and two are available for purchase now. I’ve got both, but have to admit I’m partial to this one as a fantastic visual representation of AFI’s top 25 movies of all time. It’s a poster and a game—a game in a poster!
Paravel got really busy from November thru January. I spent the majority of my time with my head down, focused on client work, deadlines, basecamp, and email. We were a part of some fun projects, but when it came time for me to speak at New Adventures this year I realized I was a little used-up. I felt disconnected from my identity as a web designer because I... Read more
When I was in grade school, from the time I stepped off the bus in the afternoon ’til sunset, my neighborhood was my entire world, and the possibilities were limitless. I was part of a BMX kid gang of sorts. We rolled our jeans up and folded our converse down. We built forts, played Nerf football, and shot bb guns. When that got old we’d explore the outer... Read more
Today, Paravel launched the new responsive website for Typofonderie. We had a great time with the challenges that arose from building a font-selling, ecommerce-driven, responsive web site. We took extra care to scale things like category & search navigation, and to preserve image hierarchy (like the home page banner graphic). This project was a collaborative effort. Jean François Porchez and the Typofonderie team designed their new logo and all... Read more
When you’re enjoying the Super Bowl this weekend, be sure to check out sb46.twitter.com. Last month, Paravel had the privilege of working with Twitter and Mass Relevance to build the responsive site. You can track TPM (tweets per minute), and total tweets for each team as well as follow tweets from coaches, players, analysts, and fans.
To design responsive websites effectively and responsibly, I had to completely redefine the way I view the web. It pains me to admit it, but I wasn’t too keen on responsive web design right out of the box. Weeks after Ethan’s ALA article, I even briefly entertained the idea of writing a post haranguing the practice, nit-picking concerns on how using media queries to relocate elements on a page... Read more
