yeawen.com, memorial holiday and big ass header
The panoramic header image was taken from my balcony sometimes during last year Christmas season. Stay tune for more interesting, big ass and controversial header images in coming months.
Anyway, an iconbuffet buddy of mine sent me the ‘marseille cafe‘ icons a couple months back. Upon receiving the icons, I just knew I had to come out with a design that plays nice with them. It is, in my opinion, one of the better crafted icons in the free delivery package.
The blog design didn’t get to see any sunlight back then since most of the projects I was working on were those ‘2.0 web applications UI design’ sort of stuff. Until this young woman came to me one day asking for a blog design.
yeawen.com
I was ecstatic and thrill when she told me she was thinking of setting up a blog. I’d pitched the idea to her for quite some times because I’m a big fan of her writing. She’s one of those people ‘who don’t have a blog but should have had one’. So I grabbed ‘marseille’ out of my dusty comp folder and put on some finishing touches on the design, polished it with my AJAX dishwasher, used my magic wand to transform it into a css template and ported it into wordpress theme.
It doesn’t hurt that this project gives me the rare, precious 8 web design warm fuzzy feelings. It’s one of the projects I enjoy working on more than others. Although it is filled with dummy contents right now, I can reassure you she is many times a better writer than I am. She just needs to pick up her lazy ass and starts writing and hopefully this entry will give her that little push.
Oh by the way, she’s my younger sister ;-).
Oh, and enjoy your long memorial weekend.
Update: and she wrote her first entry….
