Html, css, js and Ruby temple development for the load testing tool by Solutious.

Visual design, html, css, js and drupal development for Personfid’s identity management system and company site.

Interface icon design for Microsoft’s media authoring suite.

HTML, CSS and JS development for this advanced surveillance imaging firm based in Vancouver.

Visual design and html/css development for Solutious, a software testing company run by Rilli ally, the formidable Delano Mandelbaum. More goodies to come over the next few months.

More recently, we’ve been talking about ways to get you stuff. Good stuff, from local businesses and groups that do things we all actually care about. This might mean bartering with a bar to get you and your pals half price mojitos. It might mean empowering a concert venue to connect with their community. Or to give you free tickets to a gig that isn’t sold out tonight. It might mean organizing a ride home for you after camping over the long weekend.

It’s a delicate line, but we’re excited about finding a way to create positive experiences and positive cash flow. We want to be very careful while we’re exploring what respectful advertising looks like. Most of all, we want to listen to people who are using Rill, the people who are excited about their neighborhoods and the people who create the experiences that make us smile real big.

As part of that, the Rilli team has applied to give our first public panel discussion at South by South West this year in Austin, Texas. SXSW selects panels partly based on a voting process, so if you’re interested we’d be jazzed to have your vote and any comments over on the SXSW panel picker. Or drop any of us a line; we’d love to hear from you!

Right, so, not like Oprah, I swear. The first differentiator might be that the idea came to me over a nice glass of Aberlour Whiskey in Montreal with good friends. I’ve been trying to discipline my reading lately and my friends are generally consuming the most interesting books on the planet as far as I’m concerned. So the idea is to combine forces, and like Oprah, conduct things remotely (okay, so one point against). But! Since the initial group is a crack team of designers, programmers and cultural enthusiasts, I figure it will be a great opportunity to play with the concept of what a book club is.

We’ll be tossing around different ideas of what to do with that gleaned knowledge once we’ve pealed through those pages. We’re talking about creating and publishing information models for a book or building a web app that employs a core concept of a book or making a major change in our own workflows or lives based on a concept from a book.

The bookshelf above is from Shelfari, the tool we’re using to organize our group, which so happens to be bloody amazing. It really gives a certain respect to the books you love that other media organizing sites like last.fm seem to miss. And its a joy to use and share the books you’ve read with your friends.

I’m mostly writing this here as public colateral to ensure I stick to this idea since I like it so damned much. If anyone’s interested in checking out the club please, do take a look and hop in if you like.

“Design” is Dead, Stark Retires
“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact… Everything I designed was unnecessary… design is a dreadful form of expression.” - design is dead, long live design.

Sidewalk Psychiatry graffiti - Boing Boing
What about interface easter eggs like this?

Fever Named After Blackwater in Iraq
Unprecedented?

America’s new subprime shanty-towns - Boing Boing
“I wonder why I found out about this from the BBC and not US media”

my del.icio.us…

Visual design and flash development for PersonafID.