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What I’m doing lately

Posted on April 4th, 2012 at 10:40am by Pi.
Categories: Personal, WordPress, Design.

Well, one of the things I don’t do is update this blog ^_^ But I’ve been busy designing and designing. Mainly playing with Inkscape and other toys, making logos, business cards and WordPress-based websites. Interestingly enough, WordPress works excellently as a non-blog, generic CMS. (more…)

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Shelvez for warez

Posted on February 10th, 2010 at 8:24pm by Pi.
Categories: Personal, Gaming, Design.

Stage one: badly used space.

Stage two: little corner for software(z). The bottom image gives a better view of what I’ve put there for now. I’ll have to dig up my really old software (made before Links) to complete the space. The other wall will be for old books and stuff.

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Tetris shelves

Posted on May 14th, 2009 at 11:28am by Pi.
Categories: Personal, Design.

Well, finally! I’ve done these shelves during this week. I did this design myself on the weekend, spans 4×6 squares and contains the pieces L, J, Z, S and T. The main structure was done on monday, while I finished it on tuesday. Yesterday I finished putting the edges and back panels, and this morning I corrected the position of two screws which were screwing the purpose of the back panels. The structure is supported by those panels, so it can bear with being full of books. The total cost has been 58.47€, and maybe 6-7 hours of work. Not exactly ikea-cheap nor very professional either, but I’m damn proud of the result and wanting to repeat the experience.

I was planning to do something else, but decided on a Tetris theme before and after looking at this page about 30 of the Most Creative Bookshelves Designs. However, it might give you some more ideas.

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Another spine for another DVD album

Posted on August 6th, 2007 at 10:08am by Pi.
Categories: Moving Pictures, Personal, Design.

Yesterday I designed and printed a sheet to place in the spine of another rigid DVD albums. I had one of these Hofmann rigid albums for CDs and DVDs for years, but I couldn’t find another one until this thursday when I saw one while searching for my new printer. They’re 9€ and can handle 120 discs or covers. I like them more than the other semi-rigid archivers with zip and poor sewing, for more or less the same proportional price. The rigid albums, on the other side, have independent sheets (for eight discs) in a ring structure. (more…)

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Spine for a DVD album

Posted on August 4th, 2007 at 10:37pm by Pi.
Categories: Moving Pictures, Personal, Design.

Today I’ve designed and printed a sheet to place in the spine of my rigid DVD albums. More specifically, the one where I keep the movies from the drama, science-fiction and thriller genres (about 450). Part of this sheet is seen in the front and the back of the album. (more…)

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Flexible versus fixed width in web design

Posted on May 20th, 2007 at 12:57pm by Pi.
Categories: Development, Untranslated, Design.

This article is intended to deal with a simple question, related to design applied to the web. Should web design allow for adaptable width columns? If not, then how wide should a column be? (more…)

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CSS div hell - Or how to make a 2way liquid frame with transparent graphics

Posted on May 1st, 2007 at 5:40pm by Pi.
Categories: Development, Untranslated, Design.

Well, this is the story of a guy who knows pretty much nothing of CSS, and his findings about it during a weekend. The story doesn’t end like “and the guy found the zen of CSS and he made great CSS for the rest of his life”, because everytime the guy touches CSS, ends angry with CSS, browser makers, Micro$oft, and a bloke called Murphy. (more…)

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