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While creating images for a site I was working on last week, I had a problem:

I needed to create an image of the company’s logo
The logo needed to appear in the unstyled version of the page as well as the styled (naturally)
In the styled version of the page the logo would be overlayed onto other […]

A recent post on mezzoblue talking about Fitts’ Law has sparked a bit of research for me. Fitts’ Law, says basically:
The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.
In the mezzoblue post, Dave Shea complains that Fitts’ Law cannot be applied to links within body copy […]

Update: 8/31/2004
The site for which this logo was designed is online. Visit Little Creek Sanitarium.
Why I’m Painting
I’m in the middle of an exercise that I didn’t expect and I’m not qualified for. I’m painting. For a client. I’ll explain how I got myself into this.
I’m working on a logo for a nursing home. This logo […]