- Jul 16
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- @#$%&?!!!
- @#$%&?!!!, so that’s what a grawlix is.
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- Jul 15
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- Xbox 360 Dashboard Walkthrough
- The forthcoming new Xbox dashboard. Looks like the design brief was: “swipe the Apple TV interface and toss in some Miis.” It’s a shame, the current “blades” interface is still pretty unique. (via Todd Dominey)
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- BBC.co.uk Design Standards and Guidelines
- BBC.co.uk has a great design standards document on their site outlining the thinking behind the new grid and design system. (via Subtraction)
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- Outpost
- Outpost, manage your Basecamp projects on your iPhone. If this works as good as it looks, it will rock.
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- Man Man
- I Was a Mad Man, William Drenttel on his seedy past in pitching design.
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- Jul 14
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- Zoomii
- Zoomii, a virtual bookstore that seeks to emulate the experience of browsing shelves of books through a Google Maps style interface. It’s a bit quirky, but really intriguing.
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- Netflix 360
- Netflix’s on-demand programming coming exclusively to Xbox 360 at no additional cost.
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- Jul 10
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- Dear Lulu
- Dear Lulu, is a calibration document for testing colour, pattern, format, texture and typography through Lulu’s printing. Great idea!
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- Jul 09
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- Lost and Taken
- Lost and Taken, Free stock textures for your graphic design and photography projects, both for personal and commercial use. Loads of good stuff here.
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- Thsrs
- Thsrs, the thesaurus that only gives you synonyms shorter than the word you’re looking up. Awesome… er, rad.
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- Serif vs Sans Serif Legibility
- Alex Poole fans the flames on the on that old chestnut, Which are more legible, serif or sans serif typefaces? I’ve read some of the material he cites and what much of it comes down to is: it depends. People read best what they read most, and because of the wide range of type styles, a baseline is pretty much nonexistent. (via the marvelous Big Contrarian)
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- Jul 08
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- List of problems solved by MacGyver
- List of problems solved by MacGyver. Noted for future reference when in a tight spot.
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- Handwritten Typographers
- Cameron Adams wonders: Do typographers exert some extraordinary control of the pen that laypersons don’t? Does a typographer’s handwriting influence the typefaces they produce? So he tracks down some well known typographers and gets samples of their handwriting. I’m happy to see my handwriting is on par for illegibility.
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- Studio Lettering
- Studio Lettering, new collection of hand-lettering typefaces from House Industries. The OpenType contextual support is wonderful.
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- Jul 07
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- Bullitt Chase Scene
- Video for one of the best car chase scenes ever (from Bullitt with Steve McQueen, of course) paired with GPS Google Maps tracking of the cars’ locations through the Mission in San Francisco. (via Jeremy Keith)
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- Unexpectedly Quit
- Unexpectedly Quit, every time an Adobe application misbehaves I upload the error message. A great means to vent Adobe related frustrations from Mike Essl.
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- The Heads of State
- The Heads of State have a lovely new website and heaps of beautiful design work to go with it. Congrats, Jason and Dusty!
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- Jul 06
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- Shortwave
- Shortwave, an extensible quick-search and shortcut system from Shaun Inman. Fantastically cool, especially for iPhone users. More info on Shaun’s site.
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- Jul 03
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- Inflation
- 99¢ or more. So… just like every other store now?
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- Jul 02
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- A List Apart: Issue 262
- A List Apart: Issue 262, Feel the love with Subversion and find out why binding in JavaScript is not as kinky as it sounds. Articles by Ryan Irelan and Christophe Porteneuve.
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- Dark Knight
- Beautiful poster for the new Batman flick, The Dark Night. I wanna see this film right now.
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- Jul 01
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