Because we had experience in both print and web design, and because we truly loved working in both mediums, we decided that we shouldn't be completely exclusive in any one particular area.

The Inner Voice

Scratch the Surface

September 24th, 2009

We’ve got our books, our pencils, our paper and our pocket protectors, and we’re heading back to school. CSS3 school that is. Yes, we’ve been doing a lot of reading and studying about some of the new, exciting features that are around the somewhat distant corner for our profession.

With the W3c’s formal adoption of html 5 and the CSS3 buzz building every week, things are looking bright. But with the flurry of information out there it can be hard to find the latest and greatest on these new technologies. So, in order to help out a bit we’ve assembled a short list of articles and sites that have been instrumental in helping us get our feet under us. These resources can act as a sort of early primer for the designer to assist in scratching the surface in what might be one of the most fundamental changes to the web in the last 10 years.

Websites

Articles

Resources will change every week, changes will be made faster than we can absorb them, and we will, at times, surely feel out of date and out of place with these vast, changing resources. But, that’s the thrill right? Watching the your world change right before your eyes and knowing that you have the opportunity to change right along with it.

eljl v2 launches

April 7th, 2009

eljl is proud to present version 2 of its website. This is our studio’s second incarnation in the four years we’ve been located in the Pacific Northwest. While our old site served it’s purpose as an informational tool, it lived on a bit too long without a refresh-a happenstance of our extremely busy project schedule (although, we are not complaining.)

Our new site features many of the features that we loved in our first version, but incorporates many new features (particularly under the hood) that we have been using in some of our recent work.

At this point our content remains much the same as it was in the previous incarnation, but as with all our personal projects it’s the starting point-not the destination. So, you can be sure that things will be changing over the life of this version.

So, it’s a new year and a new face. Well… not such a new year anymore, but it’s a new face to be sure.

Smokin’ New Wordpress Theme

September 17th, 2008

We are big fans of Wordpress over here, and as such we are always looking for the newest sugar on this wonderful open-source application. We just came across this fantastic template design be phenom Derek Powazek. It is a very clean, very visually powerful take on a magazine-style layout. Take a look and love it.