May 2012
21 posts
Bariol →
Beautiful font by Atipo. Get the entire family for as low as €3,00.  More examples on their Behance page.
May 29th
Wes Anderson Bingo →
May 28th
Practical Maintainable CSS →
A refreshing read.
May 18th
Collaboration for Designers →
Working closely with other designers gives us the opportunity to learn from their experience and enhance our own: how do they present their work to clients? What tools do they use to keep track of project milestones? How dothey make sure to stay on budget? Not shying away from collaboration can introduce you to some new friends and improve the quality of your work. The more different the...
May 18th
10 New Year’s resolutions for designers →
I’m a little late with this one, but 10 great points for creatives in general.
May 17th
Phiculator →
A simple widget for your Mac OSX dashboard, which given any number, will calculate the corresponding value using the golden ratio. Useful to anyone wishing to create anything with divine proportions! Oh, and it’s FREE.
May 16th
May 16th
WatchWatch
Goodbye Sober Day (by itzá!)
May 14th
Hytte på Skåtøy →
Who wouldn’t want to spend time here?
May 14th
One Month in Design →
Interesting: Working in the browser Oddly enough, Photoshop and Illustrator are my least used tools. Most of my dirty work has been in TextMate with Web Inspector, prototyping actual pages the team can poke at in their own browsers. Working this way has been fast and productive. While working on new ideas, I don’t know what I would do without a Web Inspector — I can easily (and rapidly)...
May 14th
Rethinking the iPhone's App Switcher →
Feels very “Apple” to me!
May 13th
Pixel-fitting →
May 10th
Front-end Code Standards & Best Practices →
Nice write-up from Isobar.
May 10th
Effective Presentation of a Website’s Navigation →
It’s funny cause I really admire the Metro UI. And as much as I try to be consistent, this article does prove a good point - that differentiation can be a powerful tool. The Guidelines for Success: Pay attention to User Goals and/or Conversions When trying to determine how to prioritize and bring meaning to your navigation, think in terms of your users’ primary goals and/or site...
May 10th
Artist, Inventor, Mechanic, Economist, and... →
Today’s designer is a renaissance man. At least the great ones are. Study the topics that you didn’t think about studying. Read the books you didn’t even knew existed. Write your ass off. Design new thing without worrying about the look of it for a while. Plan ahead. Be a Buckminster. A must read.
May 10th
Designing Ideas →
I can’t remember the last time I fired up Clear myself…
May 9th
At Home with Rob Fissmer of Vitsœ
ghostlystore: Ghostly fan and GMS subscriber Rob Fissmer studied architecture at RISD and later went on to work at one of the world’s most influential design stores, Moss, where he was also responsible for compiling our MG/M1 collaboration. Following his time at Moss, Fissmer settled into a position as the head of North American operations for Vitsœ, the UK company which produces the iconic 606...
May 8th
20 notes
Photo Essay – Eames House →
Simply amazing.
May 5th
The Brooklyn Nets →
See also: Hipster Branding
May 3rd
ImageOptim →
ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.
May 2nd
Secrets to Lightning Fast Mobile Design →
Also, Scaling Instagram…
May 1st
April 2012
27 posts
Change aversion: why users hate what you launched... →
Apr 27th
Loved this quote from REWORK: When we start designing something, we sketch out ideas with a big, thick Sharpie marker, instead of a ballpoint pen. Why? Pen points are too fine. They’re too high-resolution. They encourage you to worry about things that you shouldn’t worry about yet, like perfecting the shading or whether to use a dotted or dashed line. You end up focusing on things...
Apr 26th
Pantone® Swatch Classic Album Covers →
Two Pantone® posts in one day - what are the odds? (via @philadrien)
Apr 25th
WatchWatch
Apr 25th
4 notes
Pink In PANTONE® Barbie® Doll →
Enough’s enough…
Apr 25th
Why You Need to Take 50 Coffee Meetings →
Never eat lunch alone.
Apr 25th
Apr 22nd
Klotz Type Experiment →
Apr 21st
The 4-inch iPhone →
I’m with Marco on this one, although I do think a bump in screen size would be nice. I don’t think increasing the height of the screen, while preserving the width, is the right way to go about it though. Rather, I think Apple should keep the 3:2 aspect ratio and increase the physical size until it reaches the 300dpi retina boiling point, maintaining the 960x640 pixel count.  I’d rather...
Apr 20th
66 notes
Apr 19th
1 note
Pitching a 33 1/3 Book →
Pick an album that means something to others. Lots of them. (via @ecaley)
Apr 19th
The 21 Absolute Worst Things In The World →
Nice find @oneyit.
Apr 18th
FontShop Plugin →
Enter a search term in the search box (font name, designer name or foundry name), or choose a category from the dropdown at the top of the panel. Lists of relevant fonts will appear in the panel. At the bottom of the panel, you will find controls for browsing through multiple pages of font results, as well as back and forward browsing history buttons. Awesome.
Apr 18th
Flat, simple icons for interface design →
Good roundup. I like seeing how others are doing things.
Apr 18th
Globe Genie →
Visual teleportation & sharing. Great use of Google Maps.
Apr 18th
Color Berlin →
Sick.
Apr 16th
Dive into Responsive Prototyping with Foundation →
Fantastic read. (via @ecaley)
Apr 13th
Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code →
Thanks to @daliuss for the link on this one. Also: http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/
Apr 13th
Tim Boelaars →
Simple and effective.
Apr 12th
Apr 12th
Jacques Pépin: How to Chop Garlic →
Just cause.
Apr 12th
Apr 10th
10,294 notes
Visual Journal →
Apr 10th
Typogami: An Animated Typeface Inspired By Origami →
Apr 6th
Abedcedarium →
Ironically, I had a similar interface in mind for an iOS app I wanted to sketch out.
Apr 4th
Blade Runner Sketchbook (1982) →
(via The New Graphic)
Apr 4th
FRUSTRO typeface →
Apr 3rd
March 2012
19 posts
Coding Horror: How to Hire a Programmer →
Speaking of which - we’re hiring!
Mar 28th
Inception Explained →
Who here still misses Flash websites?
Mar 26th