This was the design set for Carbon Silk, however I felt that the dark site took away the focus of the content and thus continued with a minimal white design.

Grid long header edition

I was particularly happy with this design, it displayed a very unique, and distinctive grid that seemed to balance particularly well.

Grid square logo edition

An iteration of the previous design, toying with a square logo, which proved to be problematic with the outlined grid structure.

Dark minimalist edition

A fresh look at designing with a dark background allowing more space for the content to breathe. Again, I felt the light-on-dark failed to do the content justice.

It was about time that Carbon Silk demanded some development attention, that has otherwise been snatched from other pressing commitments including; travel, moneyio and work. Without further ado, this is what has changed:

• New header graphic, kind of an experiment to balance the header and break the grid.
• New publications section. Hopefully this will expand elegantly with time.
• You will get a list of related article links when viewing an article (in the sidebar), replacing the categories section.
• A shiny new archives page has arrived with new means to discover content across the site.
• A new favicon.
• RSS has been handed off to Feedburner to gain better metric insights. The old one will still work, though.

I have posted a snapshot of an article from this point in time to make this post relevant for later readers.