Category: Design

  • E-books, Flash, and Standards

    E-books, Flash, and Standards

    In Issue No. 302 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Joe Clark explains what E-book designers can learn from 10 years of standards-based web design, and Daniel Mall tells designers what they…

  • Van Damme, that’s good design

    Van Damme, that’s good design

    Web designer Tim Van Damme, founder of Made by Elephant and blogger at Max Voltar, has skyrocketed from relative oblivion to comparative fame in little over a year. Before you succumb to jealousy, consider the…

  • Digital books: the medium changes the message

    Digital books: the medium changes the message

    “Content with form—Definite Content—is almost totally the opposite of Formless Content. Most texts composed with images, charts, graphs or poetry fall under this umbrella. It may be reflowable, but depending on how it’s reflowed, inherent…

  • Viva Gonçalves!

    Viva Gonçalves!

    André Gonçalves is a graphic designer and this is his website. ?

  • Girl in the Abstract Bed

    Girl in the Abstract Bed

    via drawger.com

  • Model Site

    Model Site

    Web designer Joshua Lane, currently best know for doing fancy web stuff at Virb.com, has overhauled his personal site in ways that are aesthetically pleasing and visually instructive. Like all good site redesigns, this one…

  • New Slab in Town

    New Slab in Town

    via typographyserved.com

  • Betting on the web

    Betting on the web

    Must-read analysis at Daring Fireball anatomizes the “war” between Flash and web standards as a matter of business strategy for companies, like Apple and Google, that build best-of-breed experiences atop lowest-common-denominator platforms such as the…

  • Keming

    Keming

    via zazzle.com

  • Mid-Century Modern

    Mid-Century Modern

    via blog.wanken.com From Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?

  • Pixen: Bitmap Graphics in Style

    Pixen: Bitmap Graphics in Style

    via opensword.org Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It’s designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But…

  • David Berlow Type Specimens

    David Berlow Type Specimens

    “A collection of David Berlow’s prolific typographic work as co-founder of Font Bureau is showcased in this impressive booklet, a celebration of him receiving the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA) Typography Award in 2007. Specimen…

  • Tumblr v. Posterous

    Tumblr v. Posterous

    Business Insider: Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous’s Ass Posted via web from Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?

  • Fold, Spindle

    Fold, Spindle

    Another generation of technology has passed and Unicode support is almost everywhere. The next step is to write software that is not just “internationalized” but truly multilingual. In this article we will skip through a…

  • 60+ Free WordPress Themes

    60+ Free WordPress Themes

    Via instantshift.com Pulling the trigger just got easier. Now anyone can have a beautifully designed, standards-compliant WordPress site. The 60-plus recently created free WordPress themes (AKA template collections) listed by InstantShift’s Daniel Adams are categorized…