Blake McCreary Design

The other day I had a client come back to me after the WordPress 2.8.5 upgrade came out. I had designed the WordPress theme for his website and after the upgrade had been installed the theme disappeared from his Appearance–>Themes section in his administration panel. At the very bottom of the theme selection page it [...]

Update If you’ve come to this page because your lightbox is opening in a new window make sure your WordPress theme has the correct template tags. Recently, I was building a gallery for my theme and I had the same problem. You need to have the wp_footer() API hook in your footer.php file. To learn [...]

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the CBS eye in 2001, Charles Osgood did this report on the creation of the famous logo.

The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics. John Maeda is the president of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he is dedicated to linking design and technology. Through the software tools, web [...]

Every week I take some of the most popular and interesting tweets that I come across and share them with my community. Enjoy! Color Psychology In Creative Design “It’s worth repeating that the single most important thing you can do to build appeal, mood, and ambiance for your site is to select an appropriate color [...]

“Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the innovative projects inspired by his time in Bali.” One of my fellow classmates forwarded this Stefan Sagmeister video via email at [...]