Monthly Archives: January 2008

Ideas above my station(?)

I love Bach’s “Brandenburg concerto #3 in G major”. I’d really like to perform it within the context of a rock band (guitars, bass, drums etc) if I could a) do it justice and b) if I could do it without being sacrilegious.A link to a sample (courtesy of Amazon) and the Wiki page on the […]

An example of how important colour is and what a difference it can make

A self-doubting designer gathers no moss
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been playing around with an idea for a new davidamcclain dot com design (instead of doing something useful with my time).
I started with this study in light grey and understatement. Based around an idea I had of simple squared logo. The menu links […]

iTunes-mini

Last night my Time Machine drive kinda went bye-bye and it forced my to delete a bucket load of files on my system’s drive to make way for a folder I kept on that drive of design work…shoot! Where did all my music work go? I feel sick. Oh crap!
OK, panic over! I had mysteriously […]

Fun and games with Time Machine

As of last summer I was doing all my music and design work on a PowerMac G4 Dual 500MHz with 512mb of RAM running OS X 10.3 Panther (roar!). When it became evident that I couldn’t put off upgrading any longer I decided that I wanted to get a laptop. A MacBook Pro to be […]

In The Red Deeps refresh - all done…

…for now
I made a few changes and tweaks to the weaker parts of the user experience at In The Red Deeps dot com. A wholesale redesign isn’t on the cards because for the time being I like the design just fine and refining the rough edges will keep me satisfied for now. The refreshed site […]