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Re: The 20 most creative resumes i’ve seen in a long time. Pure inspiration

Sacha Greif — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:21:51 -0000

Nice collection !

You can check out mine, too:

http://www.sachagreif.com/b...

Re: http://www.jackcheng.com/the-illness

Sacha Greif — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:43:51 -0000

don't we all have that illness already ? it's called life.

Re: 25 Awful Web Designs From 25 of MMA’s Top Fighters

Sacha Greif — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:05:12 -0000

It's always nice to see designers who like MMA (or at least write about it). It seems like those two demographics don't overlap much (at least, judging from the terrible design generally associated with MMA).

While I agree that they pretty much suck, some of them (Tim Sylvia, Diego Sanchez) at least make good use of photographs, which is something most websites could learn from.

The sad thing is that all of those websites were probably made by professionals. But most people just don't have enough design education to select a good designer. I'm currently building a website for a friend who does submission wrestling. I hope it'll be nicer than those.

Re: At the Pond

Sacha Greif — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:09:23 -0000

That's how I understood it too, and the comic is funny because this has obivously happened multiple times before (as shown by the toys strewn around), and despite this neither the boy or the monster expected it.

Re: 30 Artistic and Creative Résumés

Sacha Greif — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:26:17 -0000

Wow, lots of great resumes here. Although you probably also have a stripped-down version available. Anyway here's mine, maybe you could feature it too ?

http://www.sachagreif.com/n...

Re: Day 4

Sacha Greif — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:25:02 -0000

This is a great project! I'd love to see some photos and hear more stories about what's happening while you're in the air.

Re: Yakitourist (Nan desu ka?)

Sacha Greif — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:30:31 -0000

Non raté... Ca serait pas très pratique comme menu!

Re: iPad Pages vs. Microsoft Office

Sacha Greif — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:06:42 -0000

I think those apps are made for different people. Office is for masochists or people who need macros or whatever it is Office does. And Pages is for the rest of us.

The thing is, up to now the rest of us has been forced to use Office, too...

Re: http://yakitourist.tumblr.com/post/465537726

Sacha Greif — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:01:55 -0000

Merci pour le commentaire! Pour les photos c'est dès fois moi, dès fois Emi. On a deux appareils (ou même 3 en comptant l'iPhone) donc on a pas besoin de se disputer :)

Mais je suis curieux, comment tu es tombé sur ce blog?

Re: Yakitourist (Nan desu ka?)

Sacha Greif — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:03:07 -0000

bien joué.. mais c'est trop facile pour ceux qui sont déjà allés au Japon!

Re: http://yakitourist.tumblr.com/post/505549408

Sacha Greif — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:32:04 -0000

Pas bête... mais il y avait pas grand chose à envahir là bas.

Re: Get URLs, Captions & Titles for Images Attached to Posts in WordPress

Sacha Greif — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:46:04 -0000

Thanks for your help! But I have a few remarks (which might very well be off the mark since I'm new to wordpress).

First it seems to me that "attachment_array" is not actually an array, but an object. Also, I'm wondering why you don't use $attachment_array->post_title to get the title instead of making another query using get_post(), which seems superfluous?

Re: The 23 most beautiful wordpress portfolio themes

Sacha Greif — Fri, 21 May 2010 05:33:42 -0000

Wow that's a great list! May I suggest adding my own theme to it?

http://silverio.sachagreif....

It might not be as flashy as some other themes out there, but I tried to keep things nice and clean so that the portfolio's design doesn't overpower your own work.

Re: Author Interview: Freshface

Sacha Greif — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:49:43 -0000

Thanks for your comment. I'm not sure really protecting HTML and CSS is possible, or even desirable (because it makes it harder for buyers to judge the quality of your theme's code). But it would be a good topic for another blog post.

Re: Author Interview: Freshface

Sacha Greif — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:49:43 -0000

Re: Dribbble Invite Giveaway – Will you be drafted?

Sacha Greif — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:37:19 -0000

Thanks for giving away your invites, I've sent you an email :)

Re: The "Design by Committee" Straw Man

Sacha Greif — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:03:51 -0000

Thanks for the comment. This is probably the real reason why they call it a "straw man", but I like to think my explanation is more fun :)

By the way, really nice blog! I love that combination of dark grey and bright yellow (and the stripes pattern, too).

Re: The "Design by Committee" Straw Man

Sacha Greif — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:47:13 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to read my post and reply here, I appreciate it!

It's true I didn't read the 140 comments on the article, but I don't see why I should, if there's something important in them you should update the original article with it.

And I think you're the one who misread me. I know very well that the comments I quoted didn't come from profesional designers, and that's the problem. Instead of highlighting "design by committee" they just show "design by non-designers".

You don't address the true issues of design by committee, such as what to do when you have contradictory input from multiple highly qualified persons.

And as for your Smashing Magazine argument, let me once more refer you to Wikipedia.

Re: The "Design by Committee" Straw Man

Sacha Greif — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:56:28 -0000

I think your last comment shows a much more balanced and diplomatic view of the issue. Maybe we'll end up agreeing after all?

Re: The "Design by Committee" Straw Man

Sacha Greif — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:57:21 -0000

Thanks for your posts on here and Smashing Mag. It's nice to know you can still disagree with someone on the internet without it turning into a flame war.

Re: The "Design by Committee" Straw Man

Sacha Greif — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:02:55 -0000

@Brandon

Thanks for taking the time to read all of this, including the comments!

@Johnathan

I'm glad you like the design. I love webcreme too, I was so happy to see my blog show up there! But the design is not completely done, it still needs a few tweaks…

Re: The "Design by Committee" Straw Man

Sacha Greif — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:04:14 -0000

Speaking of design tweaks, I just realized two weeks after launching the blog that I never enabled threaded comments in the blog's settings…

Re: Design Resources Search Engine

Sacha Greif — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:11:16 -0000

Thanks!

Re: The "Design by Committee" Straw Man

Sacha Greif — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:17:05 -0000

That's a good point. An obvious underlying issue is money: we're much more likely to try out the client's suggestions if we know we're going to get paid for the additional time.

Re: Improving a design step by step, Part 2

Sacha Greif — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:02:11 -0000

Forward away! If I see that there's interest for that kind of content, I might turn it into an ebook.