Blog Redesign: Some Blog Designs I Like
November 12, 2008Wordpress themes:
Die Neue Typographie: The New Typography a tribute to Jan Tschichold
Writing For Designers based on Veryplaintxt by Scott Wallick
Other designs:
Subtraction by Khoi Vinh
Daring Fireball by John Gruber
These are all more Minimalist than my previous sketches. Perhaps as Twyla Tharp said:
The tricky part about scratching, however, is that you can’t stop with one idea. Henry James said that genius is the act of perceiving similarity among disparate things. In the empty room you’re trying to connect the dots, linking A to B to C to maybe come up with H. Scratching is a means of identifying A, and if you can get to A, you’ve got a grip on the slippery rock wall. You’ve got purchase. You can move on to B, which is mandatory. You cannot stop with one idea. You don’t really have a workable idea until you combine two ideas.
