For a few months now I’ve been doing a podcast with my band Crash Effect and have been having a bit of fun with that. Last week I was invited to participate in a podcast (that was recorded live via a web conference) that centered around various facets of Christian spirituality, including current news and some blog entries that we’ve found interesting.

So that put the bug in me to put together a podcast centered around web design. I’ve been designing websites for nearly twelve years now and consider myself to be one of many leaders within my community, a leader in web design that has been there from the very beginning and continues to evolve in skill and application. I also know and recognize that the world does not look to me for design help—and I’m quite fine with that, believe me. I don’t care to have that kind of pressure. But that said, I do feel that there is still an audience that may find what I have to say helpful.

Last night I put together the first three pilot episodes [they're going to run weekly starting January 14th] to give myself a head start. I still have to design the website that will surround the podcast (and its associated resources), but that won’t take me long.

If you want to get a sneak peak at what the podcast will sound like, you can download the first three episodes here:
episode 001: Noise-Free Design: Value
episode 002: Noise-Free Design: Function
episode 003: Noise-Free Design: Usability

Admittedly this is some pretty high-level information that I have in these first few podcasts, but it’s meant to serve more as an introduction to the components that help make websites successful.

Anyway, give a listen and let me know what you think.

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110 format film? Back in the day we had these smaller cameras that took a film cartridge dubbed “110 speed” or “110 format” and it took these really grainy pictures that we’re kinda heavy on the orange/yellow/green tones and didn’t produce very rich color or clarity results. I’m not sure what it is, maybe nostalgia, but I’ve had the urge to re-create that effect with Photoshop.

So far the only resource I’ve found that has me anywhere near achieving this result was an article by Jeremy Daalder, a professional photographer. He has some good tutorials there, but didn’t quite hit that retro-ish 110 format look. Enter my tutorial.

Exhibit A: Boring digital photo (taken by WCCO at one of my shows)…

This is the effect we’re going for:

How do we achieve it? Simple. (more…)

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