April 2011
25 posts
The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should...
It is an awesome and fun list with hand-drawings, if you have not checked it before, do it now! View the list.
Back of a Web Page
From Khoi Vinh: this is a small, simple and limited idea, but it’s executed so cleverly that I can’t help but be impressed: hypothetical illustrations of what the back of some iconic Web sites might look like if they did indeed have a back. The first one, an illustration of reverse side of Google is fine, but they get much more clever very quickly.
Mantia for wallpaper
I was browsing couple websites and ended up at here, which I think is a great place for wallpaper lovers. It has an awesome wallpaper collection and each wallpaper has a desktop, ipad and iphone version. Make sure you check it out and download the one you like!
Responsibly responsive
Many CSS Media Queries boilerplates start with a desktop-specific stylesheet, then add queries and styles for progressively smaller viewports. This means that even the small browsers load desktop layout styles and potentially large assets, even when these are set to display:none;.
‘320 and Up’ starts with a tiny screen stylesheet that contains only reset, colour and typography styles. Media...
Reversed Logotype by Jon Tan
This image shows a particular optical illusion that confronts us every day. Notice the difference between the black text on a white background and the reverse. With reversed type — light text on a darker background — the strokes seem bolder.
Black text on white is very familiar, so we can be forgiven for thinking it correctly proportioned. For familiarity’s sake we can say it is, but there are...
OS X Lion Interface Tweaks by Dmitry Fadeyev
Apple’s latest update to their Mac operating system, OS X Lion, brings with it a few user interface tweaks. Here are 4 methods I’ve noticed that Lion uses to make its interface appear simpler. (If you’re interested, you can find more screenshots here from the developer preview release). Read full article from here.
Typedia
In a nutshell, Typedia is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them. Think of it like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type. Anyone can join, add, and edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the type.
We love type, and we have a burning desire to learn as much as possible about typefaces: where they come from, who made them, and why they...
A Checklist for Content Work
In content strategy, there is no playbook of generic strategies you can pick from to assemble a plan for your client or project. Instead, our discipline rests on a series of core principles about what makes content effective—what makes it work, what makes it good. Content may need to have other qualities to work within a particular project, but this list is limited to qualities shared across all...
Designer’s Poison by Frank Chimero
Earlier this week AIGA sponsored a round-table discussion with every designer on Twitter called One Day for Design. As expected, it was a cacophony of noise with the occasional delightful or insightful nugget. It was less discussion and more a match of wits battling in profundity (with a bit of jest directed at the whole thing too). The event wound up, to my eyes, not so much a dialogue, but...
Hello world
My first paragraph for the year of 2011. The dummy text will be replaced eventually, however I will keep them for now to let the design stay in her own shape. Coupe things about the site: first it is using html5 and css3 for the super semantic presentation and awesome layout; second, the use of micro-format through out the site (vCard, hAtom and WAI-ARIA); last but not the least, the site design...
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Getting ready for the launch
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Pagination
Pagination is the process of dividing information (content) into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages. Today the latter are usually simply instances of the former that have been outputted to a printing device, such as a desktop printer or a modern printing press. For example, printed books and magazines are created first as electronic files (for example, PDF or QXD files) and...
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Layout
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Testing content is awesome
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Hello world
My first paragraph for the year of 2011. The dummy text will be replaced eventually, however I will keep them for now to let the design stay in her own shape. Coupe things about the site: first it is using html5 and css3 for the super semantic presentation and awesome layout; second, the use of micro-format through out the site (vCard, hAtom and WAI-ARIA); last but not the least, the site design...