Photo from A Life Worth Eating
This is part two of a two part series on my favorite New York coffee shops. Let’s start with a quick recap of my ten through six choices part one before introducing five through one.
Photo from Baristahands on Flickr
If there’s anything that New York has in spades, it’s great coffee. As a admitted coffee geek, in the past few years I’ve tried countless coffee shops all over the city, from a stand up espresso bar in the East Village to machiatos on a bench in deep southern Brooklyn. The ten below, presented from lowest to highest overall, are my favorites, the ones I return to again and again.
As more and more people watch film in ways different from the “traditional” formats of the theaters and DVDs, the progress bar, a indicator that shows exactly how far into a film the viewer is, has become commonplace. While instinctively it’s a great device to help navigate back and forth through a movie, I’ve got serious problems with the device, as it can completely kill the enveloping effect of a movie.
Claude Monet, Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun), 1891
courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
Color can be one of the most important creative decisions made in any web design. Whether it’s in the setting of a more sedate and controlled corporate branding, or wild and vibrant smaller sites, a shrewd and unique color palette can set apart great sites from the merely good. In this article, I examine how the masterworks of fine art can give us the inspiration behind a killer color combination.
Grid based design has been taking the web design world by storm. As evidenced from the sheer amount of resources and conferences with big name designers extolling its benefits in the past year, it may be reaching its zenith of influence. I’ve become a firm believer in a grid based approach to web design, and it’s my hope that with the opinions and resources I’ve compiled below, you will be too.
Welcome to a much more refined version of nickschaden.com. What originally was little more than a simplified web based resume I’ve decided to grow into something significantly larger.
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