Posted: November 19th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2.0, design, experience, mootools, website | Tags: design, magazine, portfolio, web design, website | No Comments »
In recent news, my design work has been in another design magazine. This time its
Practical Webdesign magazine. In the December 2008 Issue183 in the .net/showcase/gallery section.
It features about 4 screen shots of some of my work and a written piece which states…
“Jon Montenegro
URL www.jonjon.tv
Company In house (Jon Montenegro)
URL In house
When we talk about navigation, we delve straight into the way we work with the web, yet for some people, a word processor or email client is actually a more familiar way of sharing content with users.
In essence, that’s exactly what ‘experience director’ Jon Montenegro has done with his engaging site.
It simply lists content like emails, with the details in columns. These columns can then be changed to be viewed by client name, format, work, industry or year, much like how emails can be ordered by subject, date or size. The concept is so simple and bare-bones that it’s almost ridiculous that a site could prove successful by using this method. Yet Montenegro knows the power of the familiar and has created something instantly accessible.”
Many, many thanks.
Jon
Posted: June 26th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: creative, design, experience, strategy | Tags: design, Experience Strategy | No Comments »
data = experience. By offering emotional triggers, We are actually creating/molding experiences.
Posted: April 9th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: creative, design, mootools | Tags: experience, strategy, UXD | No Comments »
Hooray, I have just started process of redesigning and implementing an updated version of my portfolio site. www.jonjon.tv. It has been about four years since it has been last updated. (I know, it about time…right). I will be using mootools as the medium instead of flash. More to come….
Posted: January 14th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: brand, design, flash, web | Tags: coloritstudio, design, graphic design, pirated, variousways, web design | No Comments »
So here the update on how coloritstudio.com stole our company’s website. We contacted coloritstudio with a “cease a desist” email. Stating that their flash file and html files were stolen from variousways.com and that they even left our designers name and email in the code.
Well, they responded back, (via email) saying they would look into the matter and get back to us.
Well, one month later, they sent an email with an attachment of their countries business certificate. The email stated…
“Please find attached copyright certificate for color it studio.We consider this matter closed, but should you which to pursue your claim, I suggest we let the courts decide.
Sincerely,
Color It Studio”
We thought that was cute…So we emailed them back stating that the copyright violation was not in the “name” but in the flash file and code.
(Keep in mind that at the time they left our designers name, and email in the code and even continued to pull our stylesheet from our server.
But, we soon found out that they took the time to correct the code and put in their name on the stolen files. They even left our title in the code “Award winning design and development”…which I thought was really ironic considering they stole their design.
So they emailed us back …stating….
“This is really annoying.
We will investigate further and come back to you in the beginning of next week.
Good weekend.”
“…annoying”… You have got to be kidding me. We even informed them that the design they stole was in created in 2004 and was even featured in TASCHEN’s book “WEB DESIGN: STUDIOS”. “This book, in its compact format, displays 90 of the most prominent interactive studios worldwide.” editor: Julius Wiedemann.
We will see what happens… more updates to come…
Posted: December 12th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: design, flash | Tags: flash, pirated | No Comments »
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| Once again, another one of my sites have been pirated. This has happened before with some of my other sites. This is the second time, as I know of, that variousways.com has been ripped off. The website Variousways was created a couple of years ago and the design has not changed since then. I recently received an email from someone named “Jack” whom alerted me of the ripp-off. If you look, not only has my splash page been ripped, but the whole flash. Naturally, they just plopped in their logo and changed some of their content, but without a doubt they completely ripped the site. |
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 And to add insult to injury… If you look at their source code in the meta information. Coloritstudio left their name as “owner”, but still left MY Name as author and MY Email address (The Variousways Email Address) in the email. Something they must of forgot to change while downloading my index file.Wait…it gets better…If you look closely at their link to the css file, They are STILL linking to the css file on variousways.com server. I am just amazed at the audacity. If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, what is duplication? |
Posted: October 26th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: art, design, web | No Comments »
Perfection is not when there is nothing to add,
but when there is nothing to take away.
- Saint Exupéry
Posted: January 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: design, graphic design, typography | Tags: helvetica, helvetica the movie, posters, typography | No Comments »
Helvetica is a feature-length independent documentary film about typography. The film is a production of Swiss Dots, in association with Veer. They are presently asking for donations to help finance the film. I can’t help but get excited over this project, We contact Christiana, and instantly donated to see this concept become reality… So if you have not already, donate now and you also get some lovely Helvetica swag (posters, pins, etc).
Posted: June 29th, 2006 | Author: admin | Filed under: actionscript, design, flash, new media art, web | Tags: book, Julius Wiedemann, studios, taschen, web design | No Comments »
Recently I have contacted by Julius Wiedemann. (editor). He informed me that I my design work has been selected to be featured in Taschen’s book called “Web Design: Studios“. Many thanks….
Taschen’s website states…”The web’s hottest design teams. Who are today’s most innovative and successful interactive agencies? Who are the teams creating cutting-edge websites for clients such as Coca Cola, Nike, Adidas, Chrysler, and BMW? For anyone who wants to know who’s who in the world of web design, this is the guide to get. Over 90 of the coolest design studios from over 30 countries are profiled herein, complete with examples of recent work, contact information, list of awards, and favorite tools (such as Flash, HTML, XML, etc.).”
It can be found over at Taschen or Amazon.
Posted: March 14th, 2005 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2.0, AI, actionscript, art, artificial intelligence, design, flash, web | No Comments »
We have seen this ratio in mathematics and art through the ages. I am experimenting with creating actionscript artwork using this ratio for dynamically creating visual composition.
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More to come…
