Xaide’s Blog

It’s generally not such a big surprise to find any of these words in works of social interaction, diplomatic institution policies, laws and belief systems. Question is, how do we get from the 4 word PLUR acronym meaning peace, love, unity and respect to a visual pattern that occurs across centuries, is included in visual designs and depicted on walls, posters, books, t-shirts, but most importantly in people’s minds.

Today I am going to continue a discussion we had about using multiple fonts and colours with respect to some Web 2.0 design trends, this time focusing our attention on colour (diversity) and why would someone incorporate it into design. First, let’s define PLUR:

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Today I was trying to continue an article about a Neuroscience presentation when I found an old love letter… an unsent love letter, to be more exact. I was a bit surprised, to be sincere, as old thoughts I thought gone suddenly rushed through my brain and made me reconnect to that state of mind.

I’m gonna share it with you and hope you’ll share some with me. The author of the best “poem” will get 3-5 hours of lucid talking from me, while I’m in my best neuro-shape

At the end of the contest I’ll make some graphs to show the mood of the love letters. Read more

Up to the moment that I started using facebook, I had a really good opinion about it. After all, it’s used by the important people, unlike other social networks like hi5 and yahoo 360. When you hear about CEOs and successful entrepreneurs crawling a social networking site, well, that actually says something about the quality of the network, or does it? I mean, it would come only natural that the more serious people having serious backgrounds and serious leisure activities would make their own network, wouldn’t it?
Nevermind all the questions, here are some answers: Read more

I must say, I have always loooved maps with great designs.

There’s a bit of the will to explore, a bit of the idea of knowledge, a bit of the consequence of being alive and yearning to go further and explore and feel and live!

i got a bit carried out there… Read more

today is like no other day… and on this special day I’m walking, I’m talking but most of all, I’m typing…
today, I feel the touch of perfection and that’s because on Xmas, you have all the time in the world to focus on actions rather than on planning or criticizing them. So, yes, I can lay back, relax and focus on it. Now, whatever that it is for you, for me it at this moment means writing about my free-time-generator - Xmas. Read more

I’ve recently had a dispute with one of my pals. He’s a journalist and an independent writer and seems to have a lot of guts, wit and sense of twisting words to anyone’s dismay or astonishment.

The object of dispute is the other project listed on this site, Consumer Child, it’s design to be more exact.I ain’t sure you keep track of design trends, I do and I’m keen to remind you that last year we had loads of sites showing off at least four colors(usually red, yellow, blue and green) and a sense of “diversity” and “cultural diversity” and “social stuff” floating around.

Now, why am I telling you this? Read more