Album Insert Panorama WIP

I've been mentioning lately that I needed to work on the design material for the album of "La voix des jeunes" (The voice of the youth). In case you are curious, here's a preview of the work required for one of the many elements.

Knowledge Review 7 Return

After almost three months, I finally put a tiny bit of time into XNA Xtreme 101 and Knowledge Review 7. I finished the second big piece of the project, the ShapeNode class, and implemented it with the TransformNode class.

Another New Blog Layout

I'm not the only one that felt the need for a layout change. Check out Stéphanie's Blog "Pencil Addiction".

How Designers Feel...

Making good design is like giving somebody an orgasm: There's a lot of sweat and heavy breathing and sometimes you're totally in the dark. In the end, you just keep fiddling about until you get it right
---Stefan G. Bucher, 344 Design

I got this from a must-own book if you're a designer: 401 Design Meditations. It was way too good for me to not share it with you guys.

New Blog Layout

As you may have noticed, I have again changed my blog layout. If you haven't, I highly recommend you go see an optometrist ASAP.

For a long time I wanted a look that represented what I was about and what I wanted my blog to be. I wanted a clean "design" feel with a "modern grunge" accent and with a much wider real-estate space for both the posts and the right-side column.

I decided to sit down and find a new template or find ways to fully edit the one that was in place. I was lucky enough to find a template that reflected exactly what I had in mind. It's Natural Gloom by Klodian.

There were some tiny bugs with some of the stuff I had implemented in the old layout, but the new look and new features (such as editable top menu) outweighed the little bugs.