Heh, had to go back and check the hex to make sure, but yes those arrows are the same colour as the nav. ;)

Oooooh, that Freelance Freedom comic is my situation exactly. It’s scary when they give you “complete creative freedom.” It’s a myth I tell you! I always respond, “I know you have such amazing faith in my abilities, but I really need more to go on.” Or something equally as true but cheeky. I don’t know how they expect us to deliver what they want if they themselves don’t even have a clue what that might look like. I don’t read minds! Of course, you need to have an idea in order for it to be read telepathically… anyway ;)

Are you serious that the next/previous arrows are the same color as the top navigation?? Wow! That’s a great example of the elements around affecting the appearance of an object!

Ugh, yeah. It sucks when people have lame ideas that they think are good. I read a comic last night that was so relevant to that, Frellance Freedom 13. That’s a cool series of comics! I wish they had a decent navigation system for them though, I ended up navigating backwards by changing the muber in the address bar and hoping that they kept the same naming system for the series!

I’d suggest all wisdom from the bible is relevant today. ;)

Oh my goodness! That video is cool and pretty weird.

Thanks for looking at the photoblog. The funny thing about the arrows is that they are very light, but they’re the same colour as the navigation and the image background. Goes to show how much colours/tones/values are affected by the ones surrounding or next to them!

Ugh, I recently had a request to create a logo that absolutely had to have a globe in it. There are only so many ways to draw a globe!! On top of it, it had to have a banner around the globe with the conference name. I kept trying to tell them that is not original, it is way too generic and it will be very boring. Would they listen? No. Did they like the creative alternatives I presented? No. Did they like it when I crafted their original idea 100%, point-for-point? No! Grrr…

So much wisdom from the Bible that is still relevant today, no? Ecclesiastes is a good book. Have you seen this? Pretty crazy!

P.S. Photoblog looks good in IE6! The images (non-hover) are still a little light, though. If you have time, I would make them a little darker so they are easier to see.

When it’s mere laziness or lack of creativity it’s not particularly cool.

When it’s coincidence… it’s kinda unfortunate.

You’re right about tested ideas, Yvonne: some conventions are in place for a reason.

Personally, some of my favourite designs are ‘heavy borrowers’ – but they’ve taken a concept and twisted it into something so beautiful that all’s forgiven (at least for me).

As long as it’s not colour for colour, shape for shape, alignment to alignment etc. ripping, then really, I think it’s better to have tried and tested ideas in great new forms than new ideas which suck. The latter rarely wins over the former, IMHO.