Wabi-sabi. Imperfection Is Beautiful.

The concept of Wabi-sabi was introduced to me back in college by my art professor. It's something I've always tried to work into my own artwork and even my web design. I've always felt that perfectly rendered art and design carried with it a certain sense of boredom or heartlessness. After spending some time in college spinning out my own sturdy little teacups on the potter's wheel I came to realize that the most beautiful thing about an imperfect vessel is it's likeness to mankind. Flawed yet still so very functional. Now how do I take a philosophy like Wabi-sabi and incorporate it into web design? A List Apart has a great little article on working elegance and heart into perfectly, coded designs.  A lot of great ideas and a fantastic article but I'd still like to explore the concept some more and see if there are any different ideas for incorporating Wabi-sabi into the web.

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Brainstorming A New Look For Mraf.com

     
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Top Navigation Menu

I recently put together another simple CSS based navigation menu for a friend of mine's website.  Like my last CSS menu I wanted to make this one freely available for download as well.   All the code validates as 100% strict and it should work fine in any decently recent browser.  More to come soon! 

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Free Sidebar Menu Built With CSS+XHTML

In an effort to begin contributing to the open source community and create projects that will enhance my skill sets I've decided to start building navigational menus with CSS and XHTML and make them available for download and use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial Share ALike License.  Hopefully, someday soon I'll know more than just CSS and be able to post AJAX, Ruby or PHP applications up here as well.  You can download this particular menu here and see a demo of it here.


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