Category: Design
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Girl in the Abstract Bed
via drawger.com
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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…
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New Slab in Town
via typographyserved.com
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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…
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Keming
via zazzle.com
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Mid-Century Modern
via blog.wanken.com From Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?
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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…
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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…
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Tumblr v. Posterous
Business Insider: Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous’s Ass Posted via web from Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?
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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…
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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…
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Icon Design Problem
Quick: what’s a good, one-color icon shape that says “clear”? A circle with an X? A circle slash? No, this isn’t delete — this is like clearing the list in Safari’s download window. Just removing…
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Wish I’d invented it
Arc90 Lab’s Readability is a simple and essential tool that “makes reading on the web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.” Just choose your settings, install the bookmarklet in your browser’s…
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How sick?
How sick am I today? This sick.
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Laying Pipe
Dan Benjamin and yours truly discuss the secret history of blogging, transitioning from freelance to agency, the story behind the web standards movement, the launch of A Book Apart and its first title, HTML5 For…