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.

johnniemanzari [at] yahoo [dot] com

v6.0, last updated August 2010