Tom Lewek is a Graphic Designer from Connecticut living & working in the beautiful city of Berlin, Germany in 2011-2012.
My wife Kathryn Lewek is an opera singer.
Our dog Noir is a Papillon.
Return to tomlewek.comThere’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want.
And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently.
With a great-looking new site “Don’t Fear the Internet”, Jessica Hische and Russ Maschmeyer will attempt to teach basic HTML and CSS coding skills to non-professional web developers.
This is a great new design resource and tutorial site: Method & Craft is created by some of the most talented web designers in the business.
Finally spent a chunk of time this weekend further designing & developing my wife’s website, with more content coming soon: www.kathrynlewek.com
Since the design greatly revolves around such a giant image, I wanted to keep any other images to an absolute minimum… my solution was the utilization of web-safe fonts for all of the typography. At the moment, the site uses no other images except for the backgrounds.
Check out the newly designed site for Weightshift, an amazingly talented design studio, and follow @weightshift’s Naz Hamid on Twitter. Great 404 page too.
Looks like tumblr has a new look. Maybe that explains all the down-time lately? Probably not.
The new design for Sagmeister Inc. Yes, that’s a video camera mounted on the office ceiling and the navigation adhered to the wood floor. I’m also pretty certain it’s a live video feed of the office. It doesn’t get much better than this, kids.
Here’s the most inspiring web design of the day; Iron to Iron is a new design company out of upstate New York. More about the website and company on owner Kevin Richardson’s blog.
Jeffrey Zeldman and company introduce their new blog, Cognition. With it, they implement an experimental new way for commenting on an article with 2 options: via Twitter response or a link to your own blog response.
Welcome to the new standard of blog design.
The amazing Lost World’s Fairs project to showcase the beta launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, and its new support of WOFF.
While I redesign my wife’s old neglected website, I posted this temporary homepage to show off her performance schedule. Full website coming soon.
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