http://gingerus.com design/food/research Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:06:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For mmott.com I have been experimenting with different kinds of repeating patterns for backgrounds. Inspired by the work of Asao Tokolo featured on the NY Times site I started drawing some patterns for the background of the mmott.com site. Below are some of the designs I came up with. By clicking ... http://gingerus.com/design/backgrounds Following a brief existence of mmott.com 1.0 we completely redesigned the site to provide easier access to the portfolio. We also took the opportunity to make the site completely AJAX driven. Using jQuery we animated the site and load the contents in the background directly into the page. The site, ... http://gingerus.com/design/mmott-com-2-0 I just corrected the proofs of my upcoming chapter 'Limits to Systems Engineering' in Philosophy and Engineering (I. van de Poel, D.E. Goldberg (eds.), 2009 with Springer). The volume, coming out of the first Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering (for which mmott did the design (see here and here)) contains ... http://gingerus.com/research/limits-to-systems-engineering For a long time I wanted to try making bonbons. During my stay in Cambridge, MA, I came across vast amounts of delicious chocolate and when my friends asked me to cook for their wedding the path seemed clear. My partner would bring me kilos of the chocolate and I ... http://gingerus.com/food/the-chocolates-experiment In answer to the needs of a good friend I decided to make him a bag. Given that the bag had to be ready prior to his recent out-of-state move, I had to rely on our fabric chest for a suitable material. Fortunately we had just the right fabric in ... http://gingerus.com/design/singh-bag Red beet curry with basmati rice & green salad with green pepper paste marinated croutons Once a week we visit the farmers market to get our groceries. It is a moment we look forward to because we can refill our allmost empty fridge with delicious fresh produce. This recipe was made ... http://gingerus.com/food/red-beet-curry-with-green-salad Admittedly we are not the biggest fan of cabbage. Nevertheless we do have a tendency to buy locally grown seasonal food. Furthermore we buy most of our food on one day of the week, which limits the amount of perishable vegetables we can buy. All the above together means we ... http://gingerus.com/food/pink-soup The notorious 'under development' will hopefully always apply to this site. With the design more or less settled and the back end up and running, the site is ready to go online. In time we will add more thoughts, more food and a view of work in progress, sketches and ... http://gingerus.com/design/under-development Update: With the launch of mmott.com 2.0 we moved the old site here. Launching mmott.com version 1, a jQuery inspired site. The different sections, about, contact, clients and portfolio are pulled from different sources. In part from the gingerus RSS feed, which facilitates as a makeshift content management system and gives us the ... http://gingerus.com/design/mmott-com-v1-0