Design Is Philosophy
Tuturials, thoughts, ideas and information about web design and digital media by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, designer, developer, digital media expert, information philosopher, speaker and author of the Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web in 24 Hours series (version 2, 3 and 4), Lynda.com's WordPress 3.0 Essential Training course and Microsoft Expression Web 4 LiveLessons and creative director of Pink & Yellow Media - a Vancouver based digital media company.
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#Occupy posters for Canadian issues
Oct. 14, 2011
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The #Occupy movement is spreading, and with good reason. In the western world, and North America in particular, inequality is slowly becoming the norm. And nowhere more so than in the USA. In my view the #Occupy movement is at … Continue reading
Oslo Love – Vote for my first ever Threadless submission
Aug. 15, 2011
I’m a big t-shirt fanatic and I’ve often wished I could get a t-shirt design printed by Threadless. This month the opportunity arose when they started the Threadless Loves Your City contest. So I created a design to honour my … Continue reading
Code Your Art Out and Dev:Unplugged: Two dev contests to cut your teeth on
Mar. 6, 2011
There are a lot of exciting things happening in the online development space right now and there are some great opportunities for designers, developers and people with great ideas for online applications to get recognition, cut their teeth on bleeding … Continue reading
Capping the Net – You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Till It’s Gone
Jan. 31, 2011
If you don’t want to read all my ramblings, here is what I want you to do to help protect and preserve the free and clear open web: Go to http://stopthemeter.ca and sign the petition Send all your friends, family, … Continue reading
Breaking the silence: What I’ve been doing over the summer
Aug. 6, 2010
If you follow this site and my Tweets you will surely have noticed my relative silence over the summer. Well, there is a reason… more precicely 3 reasons. I’ve been colossally busy dealing with three major projects that as of … Continue reading
Introducing Expression Studio 4 Web Professional
Jun. 7, 2010
As I’m packing up for a rush trip to Norway to see my dad defending his doctor’s dissertation the Microsoft Expression team is hard at work in New York City presenting the new version of my favourite web development application … Continue reading
PinkAndYellow.com resurfaces with a new design
Apr. 8, 2010
About a year ago I decided that our company website PinkAndYellow.com was way past due for an upgrade. At that time we had not posted anything on it for more than 2 years and the work presented on the site … Continue reading
Frugalbits.com – WordPress as a Magazine CMS
Apr. 5, 2010
Last year I was contacted by two veterans of the publishing business with an idea for a new online magazine called “Frugalbits“. It would be a daily publication in which readers would find deals and ideas on how to be … Continue reading
This you??? Anatomy of a Twitter Phishing Attack
Feb. 25, 2010
Over the last couple of days I’ve gotten at least 10 Direct Messages from Twitter friends – most of which are pretty well versed in modern web technologies and even one that calls herself a “social media expert”. The messages … Continue reading
Design Schooled Kids – Pushing WordPress to the edge
Jan. 20, 2010
A couple of months ago I got a tweet from Tracy Sullivan of Design Schooled Kids about creating a web site for her line of stationery for kids. It was an interesting project both because of the products themselves – … Continue reading