Mezzoblue.com - Designers Magazine Online

This site is a weblog, which is a type of website that provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. In this case, Mezzoblue.com combines a series of articles on different topics published during a specific range of time, bound together in a single volume and given a cover image that draws attention while distinguishing that issue from past issues. This site works a little like a series of magazine issues. Each post on the site is bound up as part of a collection, along with other posts published around the same date. That collection is then given a photo, and a color palette derived from that photo. All posts within that collection take on the photo and palette as core design elements, which visually groups them together. Traditional weblog posts are usually organized by chronology, and perhaps categories. This idea of collections provides a much more visually obvious method of organization. The posts within don't generally relate to each other by subject matter, so chronology is more important, as each collection covers a specific time frame. This is not actually an unfamiliar way of organizing, again going back to the magazine analogy.

"Mezzoblue is a weblog about design, the web, and some other things. Written by Dave Shea, a designer from Vancouver, Canada. It was once a portfolio site, then a porfolio/weblog, then a weblog/portfolio, but these days it's pretty much entirely weblog. I host other content here and there, but you're mainly here for the writing. Probably."

If you are a designer or simply interested in technology matters, this site will be a blast for you. There are great articles and downloadable stuff such as icons and archives that will improve your work as a designer or at least enable you to have a better website.

Who write the articles? Can visitors write one or at least suggest a topic they want to get informed about?