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Hey, I'm C. Harwick, a web designer, musician and blogger stationed in Chapel Hill, NC, where I'm studying Economics and Political Science. Care to read more? There's a whole page of this!

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The Art of the Contextual Sidebar

Wordpress by default has a persistent sidebar which appears on most every page. One thing I’ve noticed while trawling the sites of designers is that usability is greatly improved by making the sidebar contextual – that is, not a generic site-frame that sits on every page. There are several ways one can improve usability on a site with the sidebar; things I will arrange from easy to hard.

Conservatism and the Regulatory House of Cards

I’ve alluded to the regulatory house of cards before, specifically with regard to net neutrality. The basic idea is one of unintended consequences: starting from a state of freedom, the government sees a problem real or imagined and tries to fix it by fiat. Of course, this perverts incentives and makes for new problems, which [...]

Marriage As Sacrament: Did Protestants Call It Wrong?

he strength of the Protestant reformation was the axe it applied to contemporary Catholic doctrine. One of the many categories to get the axe was the sacraments. Catholics had a nice round list of seven, several of which are nowhere spoken of in the Bible. But one in particular got thrown out perhaps too hastily, one whose consequences are now coming to bear in the modern American political scene: marriage…

God, Authority, and Authoritarianism

Ni Dieu Ni Maître – “Neither God Nor Master” – is a trendy slogan among anarchists. The idea is that the self is the final authority, that it has an obligation to submit itself to no authority, religious or political. There indeed seems to be a sentiment that religious devotion is incompatible with liberty. Submission to the state, the logic goes, is only a small step to a mind accustomed to submission to God. Is it such a small step, though, as if the authority of God were essentially the same as the authority of men but on a grander scale?…

On The Orders of Beauty

The idea of beauty as the reduction of all particulars to a single head still allows for a dichotomy in the treatment of beauty; what I will refer to as the appreciation of first and second order beauty. First order beauty is the most common conception, simply because it is the most obvious. It is beauty in an object as such, and stops there: everything exists for a purpose, and executes its function in the best way possible…

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Featured Portfolio Project: November Is Coming

November Is Coming NC is an event in Asheville geared at training North Carolinians in investigative journalism and grassroots activism. As the event is the sole purpose of the site, the information is front and center, laid out so as to get the highlights at a glance. The brand, accompanied by print material, consists of the color scheme (white on red) and typography. The colors are stark, the text bold, and the layout minimalistic and compact.

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