On January 15, 2001, University of Antwerp student Dries Buytaert released the first version of Drupal to the open source community. Dries had originally developed Drupal as a news site and message board that University of Antwerp students could use for discussion and content sharing. Drupal has grown into the most popular open source Content Management System on the market,...
Continue ReadingI’m happy to say we’ve been pretty slammed here at the Brick Factory, so there hasn’t been much time for blogging lately. But I did want to quickly share some cool digital campaigns I’ve come across the last few weeks that inspired me (or more accurately, that I want to rip off in some way). ...
Continue ReadingThe Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson features a great anecdote about Paul Rand, the legendary designer who created logos for IBM, Enron, UPS, and ABC, among others. Jobs hired Rand to design the logo for the first company he started after leaving Apple, NeXt. Rand, who was in his 70s at the time and had earned the right to work on his own terms,...
Continue ReadingWe’re big believers in the importance of usability at The Bivings Group. Online, usability is branding. If your site is hard to use, visitors will lose patience and take their eyeballs elsewhere. It is just common sense really.
Inevitably, usability is about the details. It isn’t one big thing,...
Continue ReadingComedian Jerry Seinfeld recently launched a new website that brings together highlights of his 35-year stand-up career. I love the site, and I’m not really even a fan of his stand-up. Here is a breakdown of what I love about it.
1. The Approach
The site posts three videos a day,...
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