Interesting: Smashing Mag curates their top web design trends, and gives us the first of a multi-part set with these 10 great examples.
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You Can’t Go To School Naked!
You Can’t Go To School Naked!
is Ella’s favorite book these days. It’s a lovely story and I don’t mind reading it over and over. If you have a little one around the age of 3, you should check it out. Story by Dianne Billstrom and Illustrated by Don Kilpatrick.
Knitted Font
Thread Red is a beautiful knitted (!) font by handmadefont.com. Their archive of experimental, hand-made fonts is impressive.
Einstein on Clutter
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Online Backup
Online backup for $5 a month, unlimited storage? Well, Hello there, future! (currently by invitation only, of course!)
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Mark Mc Guiness’ Free E-books
Mark McGuiness compiled an interesting list of free e-books. All of them are licensed for free noncommercial distribution — as long as you credit Mark as the author, don’t alter them in any way, and don’t exploit them commercially, you are welcome to download and share them with your colleagues and contacts.
Download: How to Motivate Creative People (Including Yourself)
Download: Time Management for Creative People
Download: Creative Management for Creative Teams
To the End of the Pencil
To The End Of The Pencil And The Edge Of The Page from Green Thing on Vimeo.
(thank you Jon Huck)
Live Blogging in the Bloomingdale windows
Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, founder of apartment therapy, will be live blogging in the Bloomingdale’s windows next Thursday, January 22, from 12 to 5pm. Why? Because ha hes teamed up with Bloomingdales to take over their windows for the last two weeks of January and feature four rooms designed by their readers using their furniture. You can vote for your favorite design, win your favorite room and come to our party kicking it all off the night of the 22nd. For more info go to: bigwindowchallenge.com.
Congratulations to Maxwell and his team!
open house at the academy of art and design in basel, switzerland
The Academy of Art and Design is having an Open House tomorrow. The visual communication institute looks back on a long history particularly in typographic design, which was influenced by the work of teachers like Emil Ruder, Jan Tschichold, Armin Hoffmann and Wolfgang Weingart. On friday, january 16th, the academy opens its doors to provide everybody an insight into the diverse courses of studies.
Detailled information and program.
(thank you oliver)
iPhone CSS Design Gallery
I agree with Michael: How cool is this? A CSS Design gallery showing sites as viewed through the iPhone.
Murphy’s graphic design laws
– Speed. Quality. Affordability. Pick two
– If three designs are shown to a client, your least favorite will be chosen.
Murphy’s graphic design laws. (Now let’s add an interaction/UI design section to these!)
(thank you Kathy)
How to say goodbye to IE 6
dearie6.com is a place for people to say goodbye to IE6 via their Twitter. Made me laugh.
(thank you Eddie)
The 2008 Feltron Annual Report
Feltron has done it again: The 2008 Feltron Annual Report. I have a lot of respect for this man.
Helvetica Credo Pillow
Hello there, Pillow.
I love you more than ______
I love you more than ______ is an exploration into the wonderful world of love. Paperwhite studio wants to depart from the cliche valentines sentiment and find out the real things we are willing to put in second place for love.
Some highlights:
– i love you more than guacamole
– i love you more than a coconut popsicles on a hot summer day
– i love you more than the G train when it’s on time (or the L when it’s not stopping every 5 min!)
– i love you more than a good hair day
– i love you more than pms 412 U
Help fill in the blank “i love you more than________” by sharing your own personal feelings. Abstract, funny or literal – the choice is yours.
Send your answers to: [email protected]
Realtime communications tools are deadly
The biggest impediment to concentration is your computer’s ecosystem of interruption technologies: IM, email alerts, RSS alerts, Skype rings, etc. Anything that requires you to wait for a response, even subconsciously, occupies your attention. Anything that leaps up on your screen to announce something new, occupies your attention. … By all means, schedule a chat — voice, text, or video — when it’s needed, but leaving your IM running is like sitting down to work after hanging a giant “DISTRACT ME” sign over your desk, one that shines brightly enough to be seen by the entire world.
Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
(thank you jon)
Twelve Badass Mayonnaise Jars
Exhale, thank god, Marc Johns’ shop is back up! Yay! (How funny is that Twelve Badass Mayonnaise Jars print?)
Type as Image
Type as Image is a collection of typographic experiments where the words are treated as images that speak about their own meaning. Sent to me by Petar Pavlov.
Less Sugar.
Biscuit Pin. Made me smile.
Felted Magnets
Felt + Magnets = YAY