January 2010
37 posts
Rad Sechrist’s How-To Blog →
Cartoonist and Dreamworks storyboard artist Rad Sechrist has a how-to blog, rich with drawing tips, anatomy lessons, and and other bits of wisdom. It’s a fantastic resource, and I’ve…
Jan 28th
SimpleBits →
Nice, subtle updates to an already fantastic design.
Jan 27th
Chicago Typography →
A stunning set of Chicago typography photos. One day I will stop complaining about my brother Leo Rosen being a considerably more disciplined, talented and prolific photographer than I. Today…
Jan 27th
Soma FontFriend • Soma Design →
Holy crap, this is cool! FontFriend is a bookmarklet for typographically obsessed web designers. It enables rapid checking of fonts and font styles directly in the browser without…
Jan 27th
Google is changing and it will affect your site «... →
Jan 26th
Developing versus graphic designing and vice versa →
Jan 25th
JB - more page dynamics, less client logic →
An interesting approach… my personal approach to this kind of thing has been to eschew sending back markup from the server side, and instead send back json as it’s much lighter…
Jan 25th
Haik Avanian →
Jan 25th
Pen v keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone... →
Interesting Idea.
Jan 24th
Slashdot Games Story | Rockstar Employees Badly... →
Wow, definitely wouldn’t want to work at Rockstar. That place sounds terrible.
Jan 24th
Products, Not Prototypes →
Joel Johnson: The fact that Apple does not reveal prototypes but shipping products is the fundamental difference between their entire business strategy and that of the rest of the industry. …
Jan 22nd
has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: Active Record... →
Looks good to me!
Jan 22nd
ignore the code: Realism in UI Design →
Jan 22nd
The Best Icon Sets for Minimal Style Web Design |... →
Nice collection of icons. With so many free icon sets available now, sometimes it makes more sense to not spend countless hours designing and creating your own. However, it’s important
Jan 22nd
Sam Brown ~ The importance of teaching your... →
Great advice! Teaching clients that the site will not look the same in every browser should be a day one task. We aren’t working in the print industry where the final product can…
Jan 20th
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Espresso, Intelligentsia on Vimeo →
Love the care this guy pours (ha!) into a cup of espresso. It’s about quality, and knowing your craft. Part One of an ongoing series that documents our search for the ultimate…
Jan 20th
Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010 Weather Sealed made... →
Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010 Weather Sealed made this awesome visualization of Crayola’s colors throughout the 20th century. My inner Tufte approves.
Jan 19th
You can always do less - (37signals) →
You certainly can do less, and probably should.
Jan 15th
I Have No Talent // RailsTips by John Nunemaker →
I also have no talent, but I’m working on it. Everyday.
Jan 15th
Adactio: Journal—HTML5 business as usual →
Quit yer bitchin’
Jan 13th
MockSMTP.app →
Looks like a great way to test SMTP email sending on a Mac.
Jan 12th
Growing up Heroes →
I’m rather envious of some of these costumes. A pretty emotive and reflective look on how heroes affected many of us when we were growing up.
Jan 12th
The End Of Gravity As a Fundamental Force →
An anonymous reader writes “At a symposium at the Dutch Spinoza-instituut on 8 December, 2009, string theorist Erik Verlinde introduced a theory that derives Newton’s classical mechanics. In his…
Jan 11th
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Flying Solo: The Simplicity of Living Single |... →
I guess I need to sell a few things…
Jan 11th
night lights on Vimeo →
Holy moly, this is freaking amazing! http://yesyesno.com/night-lights In this installation YesYesNo teamed up with The Church, Inside Out Productions and Electric Canvas to turn the…
Jan 11th
Do what works best for you, not them →
Yes, yes, and yes. Love it. Of the many things we do well as creative professionals, we often forget to think for ourselves, relying on thought leaders to determine what works for…
Jan 11th
The Sad State of Biosphere 2, Sixteen Years Later... →
Biosphere 2 was an ambitious project to create a self-sustaining gigantic sealed structure where people can live indefinitely. It ended up as a failure in…
Jan 10th
The Problem with User Stories | James on Software →
Jan 9th
100+ Seamless Patterns Great for Creating Website... →
Seamless patterns are a great way to add interest and detail to a web design background. In this post we’ve rounded up over one hundred seamless patterns.
Jan 8th
Fixed-scheduled productivity →
Fixed-scheduled productivity: “Fix your ideal schedule, then work backwards to make everything fit — ruthlessly culling obligations, turning people down, becoming hard to reach, and shedding…
Jan 8th
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Apple Mouse Evolution →
25 years of Apple Mouse Evolution
Jan 6th
Twenty-ten type →
The Week in Type Hoping that everyone is feeling refreshed, invigorated and inspired after Christmas and New Year. That we are now in 2010 is arbitrary, but it is at the same time a marker, the end…
Jan 5th
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The Best Album Covers Of 2009 →
That Animal Collective cover is crazy.
Jan 5th
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The Master, The Expert, The Programmer →
Some good Zed wisdom. Straight and to the point.
Jan 5th
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7 Ways to Improve your Public Speaking →
This should come in handy soon…
Jan 5th
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A Form of Madness - Dive Into HTML5 →
A great overview of HTML5 form enhancements. Why oh why is HTML5 not standard everywhere yet?
Jan 5th
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Top 50 Artists & Bands of 2009 / The Hype Machine →
Love the illustrations. MP3 & music blog aggregator - the best songs and blog posts of music on the web - search and discover something new.
Jan 5th