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…
SimpleBits →
Nice, subtle updates to an already fantastic design.
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…
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…
Google is changing and it will affect your site «... →
Developing versus graphic designing and vice versa →
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…
Haik Avanian →
Pen v keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone... →
Interesting Idea.
Slashdot Games Story | Rockstar Employees Badly... →
Wow, definitely wouldn’t want to work at Rockstar. That place sounds terrible.
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.
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has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: Active Record... →
Looks good to me!
ignore the code: Realism in UI Design →
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
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…
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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…
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.
You can always do less - (37signals) →
You certainly can do less, and probably should.
I Have No Talent // RailsTips by John Nunemaker →
I also have no talent, but I’m working on it. Everyday.
Adactio: Journal—HTML5 business as usual →
Quit yer bitchin’
MockSMTP.app →
Looks like a great way to test SMTP email sending on a Mac.
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.
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…
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Flying Solo: The Simplicity of Living Single |... →
I guess I need to sell a few things…
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…
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…
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…
The Problem with User Stories | James on Software →
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.
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…
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Apple Mouse Evolution →
25 years of Apple Mouse Evolution
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…
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The Best Album Covers Of 2009 →
That Animal Collective cover is crazy.
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The Master, The Expert, The Programmer →
Some good Zed wisdom. Straight and to the point.
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7 Ways to Improve your Public Speaking →
This should come in handy soon…
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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?
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Top 50 Artists & Bands of 2009 / The Hype Machine →
Love the illustrations.
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