I am sure that I am not the only one, but I find the London 2012 logos very plain and poorly designed. It seems like the London 2012 Olympic Committee assigned the design of these logos to the very first person who asked for it… don’t get me wrong but I can not see any creativity or innovation in these logos. When taking into [...]

My latest design (see www.cablenet.com.cy) has been featured today on CSSMania gallery. It’s been a while since I have stopped watching such CSS galleries on a daily basis but I was very pleased to find out that one my designs was featured on CSSMania. This my first design that has been featured in any of the CSS galleries and [...]

The last few years me and my fiancee have been working on a very interesting project. A project which I had the opportunity to watch it grow into something big and very important. The project was formerly known as CyCliDB which stands for Cyprus Climatological Database. Later on, since the aims and the capabilities of the project changed into something more global we gave it the name Bythos; a greek [...]

Lately I’ve been traveling a lot. Two weeks ago I was in Italy where I spent four days in Venice and Trieste. Today, I came back from London where I’ve been during the Easter vacations. I enjoyed both London and Trieste/Venice despite the fact that they are considered as opposite; modern and traditional cities respectively.

During these trips I had the chance to shoot a lot of photographs - many of [...]

It is well known that developers and users view the same application from two different perspectives. In most of the cases these perspectives are completely opposite! Developers and designers are aware of the application and have a great knowledge of how it works which helps them understand better(?) and differently the interaction environment.

A great example of this phenomenon is something that I like to call “the paradox of the broken [...]

Two weeks ago I bought my first Mac, a shiny white MacBook. Now, I am officially just another mac-enthousiastic

The following is a photograph of the glowing Apple logo that is placed on the top of the cover. Unfortunately, the room did not have a good lighting at the time of shooting. Maybe I should try again later … or in dark…

Two decades ago Don Norman wrote a classic book on Human-Computer Interaction titled “The design of everyday things“. In his book, Norman stengthens and supports the significance of usability in everyday things like doors and taps. All of you who are not familiar with the book or its author you may laugh… “how difficult is to open a door?” you may wonder! Well, a brief read of just [...]

I am back with another post in the styling with CSS series. Have you ever tried to style the number of an ordered list? While the replacement of the default bullets is too obvious (list-style-image does the trick), the method of styling list numbers is not. What follows is a demonstration of how this can be achieved by two methods: a) the quick-and-dirty and b) the modern way.

Let’s start with [...]

I got too busy this week so I went ahead and gave my self a break, at least for tonight. I was searching for css galleries when I came across the following one: Microsoft CSS Gallery. Initially, I was under the impression that it was related to the infamous IE7 CSS Zen Garden but no … it [...]

Finally, a photograph of mine (see below) was submitted for the Flickr Explore. I did not expect that to happen and I was quite surprised. After two weeks it is placed at position #191, while the highest position reached was #132. Anyway, the original photograph had a red tone and I attempted to give a retro feeling via photograph processing … I believe that I have achieve [...]