Knowing of my growing distaste for the Facebookization of Instagram, Evgeny Tchebotarev, the co-founder of 500px, sent me an email about a new project from Crew, a freelancer-focused design company. This was years ago. Unsplash, which began as a simple Tumblr site, had graduated to its own home on the internet. The proliferation of digital … Continue reading The Wrong Kind of Splash
It has been a few years since I spruced up the look and feel of Om.co — it has been very sparse and minimal, mostly because I didn’t feel excited enough to write with a regular cadence. I wanted to put a distance between me and GigaOm. I wanted a clean cut with the idea of constant deadlines. Frankly, I just felt burned out and wrote when (and if) I was highly compelled. Continue reading “A New Look (for the blog)”
Lately, I have been once again toying with Unsplash and have rekindled my love for it. Unsplash is a photo sharing platform with a twist — Every ten days, they post ten photos, and they are free to use as you choose fit. Even commercially. It was created as a labs project by Crew.co, a creative services platform, as a side project, back in … Continue reading UnSplash: Simple & Spectacular
