Andrio Abero has a new website! Well actually it’s probably not that new now, but I haven’t checked out his work for a little while. Such a talented chap, with a stunning array of work, and some super cheap screenprints.
the typography and texture of these posters is superb, i’m particularly enamoured with Andrio’s Bjork Poster
via // cozar: niktoprojekt
Ben Crick is a Visual Communications Student in his fourth and final year at the University of Technology Sydney. “I love all styles of design, and iv tried my hand at as many of them as I can. I think as a designer it is our job to be able to adapt styles and be as versatile as possible. I like to think of it as developing my bag of tricks.”
Dude i’m so glad you’ve started researching and writing up your posts!
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?
Increasingly worrying infographic showing just how many sales / plays a solo artist would require to earn the US minimum wage. I’d be interested to see how a direct sale from the apple iTunes store would situate on this chart. More than ever, what we are seeing here is necessity of touring and playing live shows.
After HTML 4.01, the next revision to the language was called XHTML 1.0. The X stood for “eXtreme” and web developers were required to cross their arms in an X shape when speaking the letter.
No, not really. The X stood for “eXtensible” and arm crossing was entirely optional.
A Brief History of Markup - chapter 1 HTML5 For Web Designers.
I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of HTML5 For Web Designers - A new book written by Jeremy Keith and published by the newly formed A Book Apart.
(via darren131) insta-purchase
Loremify is a one-click tool to copy Lorem Ipsum. It lets you wrap in html, specify the amount of text, and copy it to your clipboard—all in one click. It runs as a Dashboard Widget in Mac OS X, and is a mere 400kb download. (via esquareda)
must have widget. Depending on where on the buttons you click will change the amount of words copied. Smooth
Probably one of my favorite software companies of all time, Panic Software have released Version 4 of their awesome (osx) ftp client Transmit. It sports a whole bunch of new features ranging from huge speed increases and a totally refreshed UI, to mountable ftp drives (a’la expandrive).
I have been lucky enough to be involved with the beta testing for the last 2 - 3 months, and I can say the outstanding effort and development behind this project should make for a fantastic release. Existing Transmit users will find a lot of the previous ui conventions changed, so it takes a bit of getting used to - dialogs and menus have all been hidden away to make for a more minimalist styled experience.
If you are still mucking around using cyberduck or the like, I urge you to purchase a transmit license, you won’t know yourself afterwards.
Congratulations to the team at panic, although i’m sure their work isn’t over for the night yet…
bonus for super seekers: hold shift while clicking ‘see all features’ in safari
This promo for Cultured Code’s Things for iPad is spectacular. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this run on air.
Let’s go make some lists!
yeah, this vid is pretty cranking. Looks like the size of ipad display has finally made page transitions cool again. Time to party like its MS Power Point 1999!
Soaka - New typeface by Jackkrit Anantakul available on YWFT
“Look out, Clark W. Griswold, because Soaka just parked on your front lawn. Soaka is the grotesque, raw, country cousin of our slab serifs Motown and Lollop, and brings the pain when you’re facing down those rough Cobra Kai design jobs. “
for 24USD this is pretty much a steal, and be sure to check out that sample pdf. yummmm
Useful tool which broadcasts a selection of your screen to an iphone app - great for designers looking to get pixel perfect previews of their work. The iphone client also accepts touches as clicks (if enabled) so this makes a great tool to preview some quick and dirty prototypes or experience demos.
Both apps are by Nicholas Zambetti and available free of charge.
Processing guru, Robert Hodgin (Flight404) writes up the history of his flight 404 website, detailing his inspirations, changes during the dotcom / flash era, and experimental concepts resulting in a $3000 server bill, what appears to be one of the first instances of an alternate reality game, and an interview with the NY Times.
I will say that i’ll miss the days of a purely conceptual website, maintained for fun, delving into the experimental graphic and programming nature of flash, catering only to the whims of the author, with no regard or care for accessibility. Just pure unadulterated digital creation.
These days appear to be gone now, or perhaps I dont hang out in the same digital circles, now it seems i’m stuck flicking through portfolios of wonder-kids digitally letter-pressing their way onto my rss feed and into design jobs.
Interesting typography based branding by Amsterdam studio JongeMeesters for the Effenaar cultural building. The custom typeface, ticket design and signage are all stunningly pulled off
(via andren)
Brilliant post by Ian Westcott from the Barbarian group,
outlining the hidden but immensely powerful/useful custom search method for Mozilla browsers (similar functionality is included in the ‘keywurl’ plugin for Safari) -
Summed up:
Bookmark a search results page
Replace the search string in the bookmarked url with ‘%s’
Assign a keyword to the bookmark (eg. wp for wikipedia)
you can then use the keyword as a search ‘preposition’ in the locationbar. (so instead of typing the wikipedia address and then searching, i’d type ‘wp velociraptors’ in the location bar and would be taken to the wikipedia article for velociraptors)
The technique is infinitely expandable as documented by Ian, for methods such as tracking courier parcels, or even getting google map directions. Also, this looks like a nice and speedier alternative to the (now stalled) mozilla ubiquity project.
update
Max Wheeler brings up the point that this functionality is already available via the host of launch applications available (shortwave, quix, launchbar et al.) - I figured i’d mention this alternative as a leaner method that integrates more closely with the browser experience, without requiring an additional 3rd party software. The bookmark method also shines if you are using a bookmark syncing service to sync your custom search terms between computers.
(via aboyinmidair, thisfuckingdandy)
ps. hey, nice work on the improved reblog default setup tumblr
From its creator, Simurai:
Well, it’s more a CSS experiment that doesn’t use any JavaScript for the animation. Make sure you test it in Safari/Chrome. You can use this theme on your own tumblr blog, but keep its limitations in mind and at the moment it only supports picture posts.
Design + interactivity = +1
Slowly but surely I’m starting to feel left behind as a primarily firefox user
Burn, the city is too bright
