Loading ...Hello, as you may have guessed, my name is Rodrigo Thauby. I’d like to welcome you to my online portfolio and invite you to take a few minutes to explore the area and look around. Who knows, maybe you will find something you like here. If that is the case, feel free to contact me and give me some work and money.
I am a 25-year-old Graphic Design student, with a passion for web development, technology and beauty.
Please visit the blog for my babblings on the state of the web, and numerous eternal ramblings on the millions of pointless web 2.0 services out there.
What’s the point?!?
Glad you asked! The point of this website is to show all of my work to you people, as well as comment and promote the use of web-standards in current Web Design, and—as stated—the occasional praise or bash of some web app.
Web Design
Web design, as we know it, is finally facing drastic changes. No longer is it limited by technology and riddled with thousands of workarounds. No, sir! Just few of those left.
At last, web standards are here, and I count myself as a faithful soldier for the cause. Semantic and valid code is an essential tool for creating web sites.
Personally, I have been very interested in web design and have been practicing as a hobby and small business at times, for many years now. Learning many things along the way (HTML, PHP4, CSS, etc.) It was only about a year ago that I opened my eyes to web standards and the exciting world of CSS as a layout and design tool. I haven’t looked back since. Currently I find myself with my nose behind a CSS, PHP, Javascript or AJAX book on a daily basis.
3D modelling
What started as an interest evolved into a hobby. Before I knew it, I was doing this for a living. I am currently working Part-Time and from home as a 3D modeler for an Architectural Metal Manufacturer called Forms+Surfaces. I currently supply most images for PR and Tech Briefs for products that we actually haven’t even built yet, which is pretty awesome!
It is a very interesting and rewarding job and I have grown fond of the task and built myself a nice process around it.
Inspiration
Inspiration? Plenty
Music, movies, newspapers and other beautifully and cleverly crafted web sites fuel my passion and imagination.
Day-to-day elements are used in my designs to try to bring the user to a closer and more personal experience.
A good article that walks you through all the different options available to define our colours.
The world of standards-based web design and development has been undergoing something of a shake-up these past few days...
While IE8 is still in development, the IEBlog reports that the browser now correctly renders the Acid2 smiley face.
A suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page.
Simple ways in which you can use CSS to improve the usability and accessibility of your site.
Learn about what we can expect from the emerging markup specification, whose goals include more flexibility and greater interoperability.
A way to better size type and controll its line-height.
A modified CSS snippet to automagically replace PNG images with their AlphaImageLoader equivalent in IE6.
A reference page with all the important class names that you can print out and keep on your desk.
Web-based implementation of seam carving for content-aware image resizing. Allows you to upload and resize your own images.
Eric Meyer presents a set of CSS rules to apply during development which call attention to markup problems.
