Category: Design
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Verdana Pro (and Con)
Although Matthew Carter is overseeing the project and David Berlow of The Font Bureau is leading development, I’m feeling twitchy about Verdana Pro, a new print family from an old screen face. Start there: Verdana…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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An Event Apart Seattle
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Screw the haters
Tasteful and true: iPad wallpaper by Anders J. Svensson at Veer’s The Skinny.
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Friday Font: TeeFranklin
Gloriously available for @font-face embedding, TeeFranklin by Suomi Type Foundry at Fontspring is a family of 14 weights/styles that may be perfect when you want to offer something a tad different from Helvetica and Franklin…
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Web Standards Trinkets
Support Web Standards: A collection of limited edition products, created so you can show your love and support for web standards.
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DWWS3e Live on Boagworld
There’s been a lot more opportunities for just thinking outside the very strict design parameters that we usually work with. Then just thinking about not just designing for any particular device but a particular context.…