Matt McInerney

hasaportfolio:

I’ve just finished the latest version of the hasaportfolio theme. You can go download the text file and install it or take a look at the example portfolio to see what’s changed.

This version is a bit different than the last. It now supports any number of projects, all on one page thanks to infinite scrolling. You can also use the new tumblr Pages feature.

The post types are still the same: photo, video, and photosets. You can also still upload your own image.

Finally, I’ve created a new request form to make requesting a subdomain a bit easier.

Now that you’ve got a chance to check out the new theme and hasaportfolio website, what do you think?

The Trustworthiness of Beards infographic made imgur’s Best Images of 2010 list with over 1,250,000 views.

It’s been a few weeks the launch of the new Big Ten identity. I wanted to let the initial reactions settle before posting, but I really wanted to post something. It’s the biggest identity project I’ve gotten a chance to work on at Pentagram, and it’s something that I’m very proud to be a part of. It’s gotten more attention than I would have imagined (including some hate mail from passionate fans…) Brand New summed up the rebrand and reaction pretty well. Fast Company have also written a very in depth article about the new logo.

Despite initial negative reactions, I do think time will be kind to this logo. I’m very happy that the final look avoids sport logo cliches in favor of a clever idea, executed with strong simple geometric type.

It’s just a little javascript:

<script>
var bgcolorlist = new Array("#7ebff7", "#ff9c27", "#ff8deb", "#47ff65", "#dddddd")
document.body.style.background = bgcolorlist[Math.floor(Math.random()*bgcolorlist.length)]
</script>

Enter a few hex codes into the bgcolorlist Array and the script with randomly cycle through them every time your page loads

I’ve answered this question before on my blog: My theme is not available. If you’d like to use a theme I’ve designed, I’ve made a couple freely available. I’d prefer if you’d use those rather than use the code and images from my own blog.

Not much to answer so I’ll just say thanks. It’s always nice to get a message like this one.

I haven’t had a ton of time to post much recently, but I did want to take a moment to post a custom wordmark and website I designed for photographer Alison Weick. The wordmark features a custom slab-serif, and accompanying sans for the stacked version, both based on my typeface Raleway.

I built clipping.us using a very simple LAMP setup. Every time you visit a clipping url (i.e. clipping.us/test) a new row is created in a MySQL table. Anytime you hit save, the text you entered is saved into that same row. Anyone has the ability to modify or delete any row in that table unless someone has temporarily locked that url. Locking a url binds that url to the users IP address (meaning no one can modify or delete it) for the period of time they’ve selected. Once the lock time expires, anyone can again modify or delete that row/url.

There’s a little bit of javascript for pieces of the interface or the ‘select all’ button, but for the most part, it’s a super lightweight php app.

U.S. Soccer’s Next Goal. This is a project I got a chance to work on last summer at Pentagram, mostly designing the custom typeface ‘Game’ along with some other pieces for the campaign. I finally got a chance to see the bid book when I came back to Pentagram this summer and was really excited to see the final product. Click through to see the book, and other pieces designed for the campaign. Here’s to hoping the World Cup ends up in the US in 2018 or 2022.

I just updated clipping.us with two new features. The site will now save all of your clipping urls so that you can access them at the bottom right of any clipping page by clicking on ‘My Clippings.’ It saves them based on your IP, so no need for a username. I’ve also allowed the ability to lock a clipping url for a 5 minute period of time, so that it can only be viewed or edited by your own IP address. I thought this might be useful for information you’d only like to copy/paste and be seen within your own network.