What I'm working on right now...

Nothing so secret... Aha! You guessed it! This is exactly what I'm working on right now: a new layout and CSS for this very blog. This is what is going to look like, as told by Adobe Illustrator...

It is pretty plain and simple. Not that I am lazy, but I do want to set up the site as soon as possible so I can show you the real stuff. It is in line with all the other personal stuff I have. (well, I guess the only thing you can see right now is outdated resume (PDF link)...)

Even though the stuff that I do are mostly much more complex and colorful than this, I want this site to be as clean as possible because it is a museum of my own. The subtle gradient background is pretty much the most obvious design decision here, in which it mimics a clean wall white-washed by Ultra Pure White with natural sunlight shone on top. It is slightly khaki-ish to match my theme color, which has always been red and orange.

Just a very architectural setting here and there. Futura is my default font, due to its architectural quality and its affliation with concrete poetry, the Fluxus and Barbara Kruger. Very strict and thick borders at 40px.

I was thinking if I should put an image in the header, but then I realized that it was just a fad after an hour of trying to fit black & white photographs in there. Since the header image appears in every single post in future, there is no image on top of my head that would be complimentary of the content all the time. It was be just an annoying reminder of an unrelated image, and such header image would put unnecessary contrast with the image in the post. Therefore, no image. Clean.

Now the next thing I need to do is to figure out how to WEFT the Futura font into the page. :)