Howdy,

My name is Thomas Maier and I am a young ambitious graphic designer and web geek.
I study Communication Design at the
University Of Arts And Design (HfG) in Karlsruhe/Germany.

You want me to work for you?

Two new web designs are up

July 8th, 2010 in Graphic design, SMM, Web design

Some of my latest work is up and running now: Two websites I designed (not coded).

Lech Solar

and

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Finland gets a Base Right on internet access

July 4th, 2010 in Archive

Finland gets fast internet access as a Base Right.

Until 2015 every household in Finland should be able to access 100 Mbit/s internet. While other countries like Germany (with 97% with 1Mbit/s) lag far behind Finland made a break through in future provision of basic supplies.

via Digitale Linke.

CSS for iPhone 4 (Retina display)

June 23rd, 2010 in Apple, Web design, iPhone

This is how you target the iPhone 4 with specific CSS:

<link rel="stylesheet" media="only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)" type="text/css" href="../iphone4.css" />

The reason is, that because every pixel is half the visual size, you may have to double the values of many CSS properties. For example text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff; which is like a half visual pixel on the iPhone 4. So to make a one-pixel line (better: looks like a one-pixel line) you have to write 2px. This preserves the visual size and adds a very smooth appearance – like we expect it from a Retina display. It also makes huge improvements for layouts on the iPhone 4 possible.

How target the iPad? Read heeere.

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My name is Thomas Maier. I am 20 years old.

I passed school with the advanced subjects math and the arts in 2009 and enrolled at the university in the same year. Since then I study Communication Design at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, HfG) for a design diploma.

These are my professors.

I’m a graphic designer, web developer, communication and social media specialist. I work as a freelance designer and programmer at Special Machine Media.

I love to listen to music, podcasts and stuff like that in addition to an interest in net politics. I am a critic at pleasecritiqueme.com and an author of Photoshop and web design articles at Webmasterpro (statement on Commindo Media).

I work on a 20" iMac and on a 15" MacBook Pro with a Wacom graphic tablet. I shoot photographs with a Canon EOS 450D and a Canon PowerShot for macro. Oh, and I got a brain.

What is this page about?

This page is a single-page website and presents myself. What I am and what I do.

It contains a blog where I post things I am interested in, I think about, which are new or exciting and I post my work here - I do lots of stuff at the HfG and for other people.

Love my style?

If you want me to get some work for you done, then please talk to Craig from Special Machine Media and request me. Special Machine is the company I work for.

I design whatever you want and provide pixel-level precision. Feel free to ask.

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