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April 12th, 2010
CSSDesk
CSSDesk is an online real-time CSS/HTML test environment created by Josh Pyles. It’s definitely one for the bookmarks; could come in really handy during builds.
Via: Tim Van Damme
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April 12th, 2010
MonoFontpoly
Timba Smits has nailed it with this theoretical font-themed board game. Who would waste their precious time playing boring old Monopoly, when they could spend it buying and selling type in Fontpoly? … Just me? Okay then.
Timba’s vintage illustrative style is fantastic; his portfolio site is well worth a gander.
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April 12th, 2010
Believe in Yourself.
An article on self-belief and false fairy-tales by Matt Johnston. As a fellow Humanist, I wholeheartedly agree with everything he has written in this post.
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April 12th, 2010
Print is dying. Digital is surging…
Nick Bilton reports for the New York Times:
A recent blog post by Craig Mod, a self-titled computer programmer, book designer and book publisher, offers a thoughtful and distinctive perspective on the move of books from paper to interactive devices like Apple’s iPad.
Nick Bilton
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April 12th, 2010
The Real Mad Men
If you’ve been following my Twitter feed at all lately, you’ve probably surmised that I’ve an ever-growing fixation with AMC’s Mad Men. Mad Men is set in the 1960s in New York City. It centres around Donald Draper and his cronies — creative geniuses and advertising masterminds. David McDonald fired me a tweet describing the series as “a genuine goldmine for creative types”. I couldn’t agree more.
I stumbled across the above photograph and an accompanying article (from the July, 1961 edition of Playboy Magazine) recently. It provides an interesting look into the lives and careers of product designers at that time. Crisp, uncluttered and innovative. Beautiful.
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April 12th, 2010
From Scratch.
I adore architecture and interior design. I watch Channel 4’s ‘Grand Designs’ and ABC’s ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ religiously. One day in the distant future I hope to have enough pennies saved to build my own house. Until then, I’m going to sit back and follow Geoff Teehan (of Toronto based design firm Teehan+Lax) as he builds his dream home from scratch: http://204beech.com.
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April 11th, 2010
Twitter buys Tweetie
It was announced over the weekend that Tweetie, a popular Twitter client by atebits, has been acquired by Twitter. The app will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and become free to download on Apple’s App Store. An update to the current Mac OS X app and a new iPad version are expected in the very near future.
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March 19th, 2010
Apples Human Touch
Multi-billion dollar companies are not usually noted for their humanity.
However, Apple have dedicated their homepage, usually at the heart of a company’s marketing strategy, to display an obituary to “a member of their corporate family and a good friend”. Jerry York, who passed away last night, sat on the Apple board of directors for almost 14 years ago.
The move on Apple’s part was particularly poignant considering that the Cupertino firm are gearing up to launch their latest revolutionary product—the iPad—in a fortnight’s time.
A beautiful human touch by a people-oriented company.
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March 19th, 2010
Websmith Tools
Websmith is a “collection of web tools and resources for Interweb Inventors”. The tea-stained creation belongs to the talented Belfast designer, Caroline Smith. Caroline is currently studying alongside me on the MA Multidisciplinary Design course at the University of Ulster.
Websmith is definitely a resource worth bookmarking.
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March 15th, 2010
ABC Employing New Brand of Digital Journalists
A fortnight ago, ABC announced that a major restructure of their news operation would result in the loss of a number of jobs. However, it now appears that they’re seeking to strengthen their ranks with a new breed of digital journalist.
ABC has “multiple openings” for digital journalists who will need to be able to shoot their own video, produce, write and deliver stories on-air and online … In a job description that suggests the pace of digital journalism, the posting says candidates must be “capable of prioritizing and handling multiple projects simultaneously, under tight time constraints.”
Sources claim that ABC plan to commission digital journalists to work both individually and in small cells. Sit back and watch as other news organisations follow in suit.
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March 15th, 2010
Future of Mobile Devices: Penguin Books
Penguin Books have recently published “some imagined book-related ipad products” (and with commentary here).
Many of Penguin’s iPad books seem hardly to resemble “books” at all, but rather very interactive learning experiences.
Robert Andrews, PaidContent:UK
I’d agree with Andrews. Formless fluid content will undoubtedly regain the traditional printed format on tablet devices. However, definite media-rich content will take on new forms and continue to evolve over time. This can only be a good thing.
If you like what Penguin have to offer; there is other ‘imagined’ tablet footage that is well worth viewing:
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March 15th, 2010
Designing for the Web
Mark Boulton’s ‘Designing for the Web’ is now available to read for FREE online. I got my hands on a copy of the PDF version last year and only got as far as the first chapter. I’m hoping I get a little further now that ‘Designing for the Web’ is on the interwebs and not hiding away in folder on my Macbook Pro.
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March 15th, 2010
Beware of the roaming charges…
Check out this infographic depicting the share of the mobile browser market, as it was in February 2010. Apple are bossing the market where the iPhone and iPod are available. Their share will only increase with introduction of the iPad next month.
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March 15th, 2010
Life moves fast. Don’t miss a thing.
Palm webOS lets you use multiple applications at the same time and see all your information at a glance thanks to its intuitive user interface.
Palm
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March 15th, 2010
Budget iPad
Struggling to find the money to pre-order that iPad you want? … Pritt Sticks at the ready.
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March 12th, 2010
Zeldman on Publishing
Jeffrey Zeldman has been blogging about the future of publishing (and some other related topics) as of late. Three interesting posts for your attention:
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March 12th, 2010
iPad Commercial
You’d have had to been hiding under a gigantic rock not to have seen this commercial by this point. However, for the sole purpose of documenting its existence. Check out the semi-new iPad commercial that aired during last weekend’s Academy Awards coverage.
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March 12th, 2010
It’s all in the details…
Final Eyes, the online presence of proofreading, copyediting, and quality assurance wordsmith Jen Schuetz, highlights examples of small inaccuracies that many copywriters and designers overlook when sculpting copy.
Something so tiny, so unassuming, yet so annoying and so maddening. (On improper use of the apostrophe.)
In ‘Three Little Lines’, Schuetz outlines when to use the hyphen (-) over the en dash (–) or em dash (—) and vice versa.
As of late, the usage of the hyphen, en dash, and em dash (and their ultimate confusion) has been maddening.
It’s all in the details…
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January 2nd, 2010
McGuirk on Rams
Guardian reporter Justin McGuirk has recently compiled an interesting assessment of Dieter Rams’ work and its influence on modern-day society.