Author Archives: Thomas Guy

Broken Brand

In the early nineties, Shep Fairey asked the question “what does it mean when the medium has no message?” He did (and still does) that from the ground-up. Ever heard of Andre the Giant? It appears Nike is running a similar experiment from the top-down. For the past week I’ve been trying to use nikerunning.nike.com.Continue reading “Broken Brand”

Stopping “Dev Only” Assets in their Tracks

This is a novel approach to solving a problem I’ve others mention on more than one occasion. All the various W3C html specs mandate a value for the src attribute of the tag. The W3C spec does not, however, specify that said value must be URI. Rather, it may be the actual encoded MIME dataContinue reading “Stopping “Dev Only” Assets in their Tracks”