April 2009
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March 2009
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Coins, obsessions, life and typetheory
Stefan Sagmeister is up to arty hijinx again:
See how it all came together and was documented.
Discovered via the recently discovered (and delightfully awesome) Type Theory blog:
www.typetheory.com
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Audio tours for people that don't normally take...
My name is Jami Gong. I was born and raised in Chinatown. These are my blocks. These are my streets. These are my people. So listen to me carefully, and I will take care of you.
Let me take control of your body and mind. I will allow you to observe without being observed. During our time together I will bring you into places you are not supposed to go, so please behave, and be very discrete. If ...
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Reliques
Yves Manchard and Romain Meffre take photographs to make you wonder about the permanence of things. The photos above aren’t from eastern bloc Europe, but Detroit, Michigan.
An amazing gallery of modern ruins: http://reliques.online.fr/index.html
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Amazon Kindle Now Also an iPhone App
http://i.gizmodo.com/5164031/amazon-kindle-now-also-an-iphone-app
February 2009
10 posts
Dropular
Dropular is a ‘media bookmarking’ service. Kinda like FFFFound I guess, but bookmarklet powered (for members - it’s still in closed beta at the moment) and keyboard navigable.
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Pattern tap is a collection of UI design patterns →
What happens when people get old? →
Preschoolers have some insights.
Drawn.ca
Is apparently the illustration and cartooning blog. http://drawn.ca/
The Laugh Out Loud Cats
Not many people know this, but my great grandfather Aloysius “Gorilla” Koford, was also a cartoonist. From 1912-1913 he produced a comic strip which was featured in 17 newspapers, including the Philadephia Star-Democrat, the Tampa Telegraph, and the Santa Fe Good-Newser.
The strip was entitled “the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats” and featured the exploits of one Meowlin Q. Kitteh (a...
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Make Something Cool Everyday
The Make Something Cool Every Day Project challenges you to make something rad for every day of 2009: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1012163@N22
Contributor Spacesick (Mitch Ansara) has thrown in some entries that are more than just a little awesome:
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Monocle design notes
City of Sound has a heeuuuge review of the work that went into the design of Monocle (magazine and website).
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Widgets & Stone
Tennessee agency Widgets & Stone have been cranking out some amazing work lately. The consistency and ingenuity of brand application for a bistro and bar named ‘easy’ makes it look, well, effortless.
via graphic exchange
The W&S Flickr stream is also worth a look.
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Cornwell is the agency behind a suprising volume...
With clients including MetLink Melbourne, Sustainability Victoria, the RACV, Monte Coffee, the QV centre, and the Melbourne Fringe and Design festivals, Conwell’s folio represents a significant portion of recognizable design in the public eye of Melbourne.
See for yourself: cornwell.com.au
January 2009
11 posts
Jiving out on Taylor McKimens
Chek it:
ABCDEFG.....
Teach your kids the alphabet the most expensive & beautiful way eva.
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Anton Repponon has some nice work →
For example:
UI development in Windows 7 →
Now that the covers are finally off, the scale of the new OS becomes clear. The user interface has undergone the most radical overhaul and update since the introduction of Windows 95 thirteen years ago.
It’s particularly interesting to see how MS have let user data from the CEIP program shape UI design:
Microsoft also has extensive data on how people use its software. Through the...
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Smashing Magazine article roundup
It’s totally worth making time to read these articles:
Mobile Web Design Trends 2009 10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques 10 useful Techniques to Improve Your User Interface Designs 50 Extremely Useful and Powerful CSS Tools Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples and Best Practices Online Advertising and Its Impact on Web Design A Short Story About “Back to Top” Links iPhone PSD...
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Photoshop Adbusting in Berlin
Via ekosystem.org
More pics at the artists’ Flickr pages:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/epoxy_one/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31192713@N03/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baveuxproduction/
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Haxing Flickr
Jes’ Codex has a bookmarklet that performs a reverse lookup on any isolated Flickr image URI and shoots you off to the Flickr page for that image:
http://jessewolfe.blogspot.com/2008/12/flickr-reverse-lookup-bookmarklet.html.
Just drag the bookmarklet link to your bookmarks toolbar and click it whenever you need to find a the page for a Flickr image (it takes the URL from the address...
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VerbaLearn - Study vocabulary for free →
December 2008
8 posts
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Yellow treehouse is a restaurant in a redwood
yellowtreehouse.co.nz
More photos here: http://dar-jan.livejournal.com/375392.html
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Yulia Brodskaya
Yulia Brodskaya is making lovely paper graphics:
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SUMO Paint is like Photoshop in your web browser →
Free, high-end image editor SUMO Paint is a fairly impressive clone of Photoshop’s major features inside a browser window, for those who want more precision and tools than offered in most free Flash-based image editors. - via Lifehacker
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Linux: stop holding our kids back →
“…observed one of my students with a group of other children gathered around his laptop. Upon looking at his computer, I saw he was giving a demonstration of some sort. The student was showing the ability of the laptop and handing out Linux disks. After confiscating the disks I called a confrence with the student and that is how I came to discover you and your organization. Mr....
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Elizabet Kreutz sports photography →
There’s some very nice sports photography here.
Be sure to check out Lance’s comeback.
Piklette: ye olde design blogge →
Henceforth replaced by the tumblisciousness, may our tasty Pikelette blog rest in peace.