Category: Web Design

  • Gawdz of Rawk!

    Gawdz of Rawk!

    Gawdz of Rawk on Flickr

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • An Event Apart Seattle

    An Event Apart Seattle

  • Test Print

    Test Print

    Coming soon to a web store near you.

  • My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit

    My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit

    GEORGIA and Verdana, Lucida and (to a lesser extent) Arial and Times New Roman have served us well. For fifteen years, these cross-platform default fonts have been faithful stewards of our desire to read, write,…

  • IE9 preview

    IE9 preview

    Is it getting hot in here? Or is it just the flames? In An Early Look At IE9 for Developers, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, reports on performance progress, web standards progress (border-radius,…

  • 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…

  • Viva Gonçalves!

    Viva Gonçalves!

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

  • New Franklin in Town

    New Franklin in Town

    There’s a new Franklin in town. It’s TeeFranklin, designed by Tomi Haaparanta for T26. Haaparanta specializes in what we used to call grunge fonts, but you’d never know from his Franklin, which is classic and…

  • 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…

  • 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…