This site is less about what you see, and more about what you don't see. I used to joke around with two friends in art class that less is always more, but in this case, I think less is just less, and that's the point.

The site has changed a lot over the last 11 years, but overall it's always been minimalist in its aesthetic. But like I've said before, there's a fine line between simple and boring.

I started this website in 1999 with Photoshop 5.5, ImageReady 2.0, and Illustrator 8.0. The initial design for this website happened mostly after hours at work on ex-Photoshop engineer Tom Costa's old dual processor PII Windows desktop that I was given when I started as an intern. I wrote my code in Microsoft Notepad.

Today, my iPhone is faster than that original machine. All work is done on a Mac, with comprehensives done in Photoshop and then hand-coded in Coda using clean, XHTML Strict coding standards. The typeface is Minion Pro, designed by Robert Slimbach of Adobe Systems. This site is hosted by Media Temple.

Find me on Twitter: @johnnie, or email me: johnniemanzari [at] yahoo [dot] com.

v6.0, last updated August 2010