Some of these designs are my entries for the CSS Zen Garden pro­ject. One has been accep­ted in the ‘Themes and Look-a-likes’ cat­egory, the other in ‘minimal’.

So what is this CSS Zen Garden about? It’s a site by Dave Shea (from the design journal mezzoblue.com) that asks design­ers to take the CSS Zen Garden page and com­pletely redesign it. Seems easy, doesn’t it? But there’s a catch: Not only does the text have to remain intact, the whole mark-up (the html) mustn’t be touched either. The one thing design­ers are allowed to change is the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) file and the images linked to it.

And, to para­phrase Dave’s words:

CSS Zen Garden [is] a demon­stra­tion of what can be accom­plished visu­ally through CSS-based design. [..] There is clearly a need for CSS to be taken ser­i­ously by graphic artists. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encour­age participation.

I hope you enjoy my portfolio.