The Daily Report

  • Mr on the Microphone

    Mr on the Microphone

    Mister on the Microphone on Flickr. AKA prepping for The Big Web Show, coming very, very soon.

  • Sleep never sleeps

    Sleep never sleeps

    Dreamed my parents were getting divorced. I’d be asking my momma why, and she would turn into my wife. The conscious mind deals with what is in front of you, the unconscious processes what has…

  • Web charts with HTML5 + Flash

    Web charts with HTML5 + Flash

    ZingChart hopes to end the war between HTML5 and Flash in web-based charting: Today we launched the first charting library that renders charts and graphs in both HTML5 <canvas> and Flash. Rather than join the…

  • The Big Web Show is coming!

    The Big Web Show is coming!

    Calling all ears! Calling all eyes! The Big Web Show is coming! The Big Web Show is coming! Hosted by Dan Benjamin (creator of The Pipeline) and yours truly and produced by 5by5 Studios, The…

  • Design Lessons from iPad

    Design Lessons from iPad

    It’s only Wednesday but we already have our link of the week. Although they call it merely a “quick write-up” (and it is a fast read), iA’s mini-compendium of design insights before and after the…

  • Layer Tennis Around the World

    Layer Tennis Around the World

    Around the world in ten layers with Coudal Partners: Ten designers in ten cities, fifteen minutes at a time. A single Photoshop file will circumnavigate the globe starting in Portland and ending in Tokyo with…

  • Clark on Apple’s weak type

    Clark on Apple’s weak type

    Apple has a typography desk. It is not exactly crowded with developers vying for every square centimetre, but it really exists. Have you ever heard of it? … Then compare Microsoft, which has two divisions…

  • Powagirrrls No. 20

    Powagirrrls No. 20

    Netdiver Magazine does a superb job of surfacing talent. Powagirrrls is their long-running series showcasing designing women. You could lose many hours here. Meet women who rock the design industry.. with more than pink design!…

  • Opera loves my web font

    Opera loves my web font

    And so do my iPhone and your iPad. All it took was a bit o’ the old Richard Fink syntax and a quick drive through the Font Squirrel @Font-Face Kit Generator (featuring Base 64 encoding…

  • Letterhead Love: The Chop Shop

    Letterhead Love: The Chop Shop

    Letterhead Love: The Chop Shop. Little blue hat tip: I’m Just Creative, an identity design blog by Graham Smith.

  • Of Google and Page Speed

    Of Google and Page Speed

    Our visually and behaviorally rich sites are about to lose precious Google juice, WebSiteOptimization.com reports in a new piece titled Page Speed Factored into Google Search Rankings: Google’s addition of a page speed signal to…

  • Opera hates my web font

    Opera hates my web font

    So I’ve wanted to use a condensed, bold Franklin typeface for my site’s headlines since, well, forever. So I bought Fontspring’s fine Franklin Gothic FS Demi Condensed and licensed it for @font-face use for a…

  • The dog ate my bookmarks

    The dog ate my bookmarks

    It’s been years (or is it weeks?) since something odd, implausible, and inexplicable happened to one or more of my Apple computers that doesn’t happen to anyone else’s. You know you want to hear this.…

  • Best AEA yet

    Best AEA yet

    An Event Apart Seattle, our first three-day show, was our best yet. Not only was every speaker engaging and every topic relevant, but there was a thematic unity between presentations as leading-edge topics came to…

  • Courts Imperil Net Neutrality

    Courts Imperil Net Neutrality

    In a ruling that could derail the Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to craft net neutrality rules, a federal appeals court said Tuesday that the agency lacked authority to sanction Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer traffic. … Broadband…