http://www.ianlabs.com The adventures of a freelance web designer Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:23:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Indianapolis Colts® have posted the five finalists, which the fans will whittle down to one sparkling choice next week. Finalists: Voting will begin by early next week (around April 28th) and will be open for approximately seven days. Here's my take on the five finalists: http://www.ianlabs.com/2008/04/25/indianapolis-colts-logo-design-contest-finalists-announced/ All of you fans and designers out there (many fans ARE designers) check this out. The Indianapolis Colts are putting on a design contest to come up with a horse logo for the Colts. This won't replace the famous horseshoe, but will still get some play. According to colts.com, "The ... http://www.ianlabs.com/2008/03/28/contest-design-the-indianapolis-colts-horse-logo/ French Designer Philippe Starck, well known for his housewares you buy in Target stores, assumes himself accurate while declaring that he wants to give up design in an interview with a German publication. http://www.ianlabs.com/2008/03/27/design-is-dead-according-to-starck/ As a members and designers, my wife and I both have the privilege to design work for the Vineyard Community Church (on the north side of Indianapolis.) While volunteer design work is hard at times due to scheduling and general life busyness, it occasionally rewards us with the opportunity to ... http://www.ianlabs.com/2008/03/20/redesign-of-indyvineyardorg/ Design isn't as critical life-and-death, but still... funny stuff.... Read: Freelance Freedom #41 http://www.ianlabs.com/2008/03/17/im-a-full-fledged-designer/ Just stop putting leaves in your logo already. Need I say more? http://www.ianlabs.com/2008/03/07/just-stop-it-already/ Awhile back I wrote about the problem of allowing website managers to write valid content for their content managed websites. I mentioned a wonderful editor called WYMeditor, which is great simple because it shows you the markup while you edit your document. Being no programmer, I am personally unable to shoehorn ... http://www.ianlabs.com/2008/03/05/xinha-conversion-to-what-you-see-is-what-you-mean-editing/ Monument Circle Soldiers and Sailors Monument Conseco Fieldhouse, home of the Pacers Lucas Oil Stadium (Under Construction) Indianapolis War Memorial The Indianapolis Library (Under Construction) The Scottish Rite Cathedral The Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis Motor Speedway The Children's Museum Technorati Tags: maps, street_view, indianapolis, google_maps http://www.ianlabs.com/2008/03/04/see-indianapolis-sights-in-google-street-view/ Today is leap day, and I would be silly not to blog on the one day that comes only once every four years. Let me see if I can remember some my personal leap day history. Walk with me, if you will, through the hallowed halls of memories: http://www.ianlabs.com/2008/02/29/hallowed-halls-of-leap-day-history/ I was reading the article "Facebook Fatigue" over at the Register, and I have to admit- I have it. I just cannot keep up with all of the social networking going on - not that you shouldn't. You see, I'm pretty sure that my personality is at fault - I ... http://www.ianlabs.com/2008/02/28/i-have-facebook-fatigue-dont-worry-its-not-contagious/