Pixelsurgeon
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Pixelsurgeon was an online design and culture magazine featuring news, reviews and interviews. It's a digest of the creative, strange and interesting from the internet with a growing readership and popular following.
Created in 2001 by Jason Arber and Richard May as a response to design news portals that were perceived to be devoid of personality, Pixelsurgeon became an instant success thanks to its emphasis on delivering original content, speaking its mind and not being afraid to appear 'uncool'.
In 2003, Pixelsurgeon relaunched with a clean new look and expanded its list of contributors, in particular Andy Barefoot who built much of Pixelsurgeon's new PHP
and MySQL
-based backend, and Sam Gilbey who quickly rose through the ranks to become senior editor.
On the 19th November 2007, Jason Arber announced that Pixelsurgeon would be closing down.
Created in 2001 by Jason Arber and Richard May as a response to design news portals that were perceived to be devoid of personality, Pixelsurgeon became an instant success thanks to its emphasis on delivering original content, speaking its mind and not being afraid to appear 'uncool'.
In 2003, Pixelsurgeon relaunched with a clean new look and expanded its list of contributors, in particular Andy Barefoot who built much of Pixelsurgeon's new PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
and MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
-based backend, and Sam Gilbey who quickly rose through the ranks to become senior editor.
On the 19th November 2007, Jason Arber announced that Pixelsurgeon would be closing down.
"After seven amazing years, Pixelsurgeon is shutting its doors and closing down.
Pixelsurgeon is an enormous time drain and thanks to an expanding family and helping to create new moving image company Wyld Stallyons, I simply cannot devote sufficient time to it. So rather than let it die a slow lingering death, I'm taking it to the canal in a bag of rocks.
This has been a tough decision, and one I've struggled with over the last couple of months. I'm sure many of you will be as heartbroken as we are.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our contributors past and present for their amazing work, and to you, our audience for stopping by to read our news, reviews and interviews.
Keep on truckin'!"
External links
- Pixelsurgeon
- Pixelsurgeon Reviews
- Pixelsurgeon Interviews
- Contributions guidelines for Pixelsurgeon
- The Official Pixelsurgeon PodcastPodcastA podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
"Audiosurgeon.blogspot.com": Audiosurgeon - Podcast Interview with Richard May and Jason Arber for CreativeXpert titled "design portal": MP3 Link