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I'm enjoying this book by Jeremy Keith. The book itself is nicely designed too.
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Nice list with concise summaries of some major features of HTML5. [via mathowie]
design
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Nice list of board books for kids to revisit.
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"This demo is an implementation of a full 8-bit color cycling engine, rendered into an HTML5 Canvas in real-time." Nice look at the lost video game art of color cycling to show movement.
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Great list of design laws to keep in mind. Seems that users are waging a constant battle against Hick's Law. [via glass]
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Nice quick tutorial about CSS opacity in Safari/Firefox and workarounds for IE.
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Images of the future I'm supposed to be living in! Manned space flight art by Chesley Bonestell in the 50's.
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Brazilian visual arts magazine. You can read them here in a Flash reader.
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Nice way of summarizing the stories of the World Cup teams by finding similar American sports stories/teams.
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Impossible! I had no idea Airplane! was based on an earlier movie. This video shows where the dialog overlaps between the two.
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"Yet despite all the innovations in the iPhone 4, without basic telephony service it’s just a piece of shit." Matt Honan succinctly sums up Apple's AT&T problem. The frustrating part is that it's potentially solvable by opening things up to other carriers.
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"Building a great display for typography without building great typographic tools is a dereliction of duty." I've been noticing this too especially on the iPad's potentially gorgeous display. The app-makers, including Apple, just don't seem to care. [via jessamyn]
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Zen medium format photos by Ryan Carver. Nice to see his photos outside of Flickr. [via mathowie]
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Danny Sullivan on the unhappy relationship/different norms between blogs and the mainstream media. [via mneznanski]
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This site uses open health and crime data to rank your county on the seven deadly sins. [via anil]
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Love these long exposure night landscapes--uniquely Midwestern.
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Nice interactive visualization that shows the current time across major time zones.
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Nice flowchart by Julian Hansen featuring 50 popular fonts.
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Nice tool for turning a word with unicode characters into the HTML equivalent.
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adobe complimentary color tool
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Matt has a great summary of South by Southwest Interactive 2010.
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Google Tech Talk by Amy Jo Kim about "Applying Game Mechanics to Functional Software".
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Jesse Schell talks about Facebook games, moving beyond them, and the scary future of achievements unlocked in real life.
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"This is the insidious practice of color-grading every movie with a simplified, distilled palette of teal and orange..."
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The history of Alfred E. Neuman (aka. Melvin Cowznofski). I always thought he originated with Mad Magazine.
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These are fantastic. I love matchbox design.
New Look!
This site has a new look! I had some rare free time last Sunday morning so I changed the colors and made up a new header image. I haven't been posting much here beyond my delicious bookmarks, but I'm hoping this new look will help motivate me to post more.
Here's roughly how it worked. I started with the Sea of Japan palette at Color Lovers:
Then I flipped through a couple design books and stock art for inspiration. Here are a few that were sources for the new look:
I also stumbled on an antique compass image I liked in a Google Image search. Then I threw all of these into a blender, added Futura, and pow—new header. So thanks to those sites, books, and designers for inspiration. I'm not sure how this will get me blogging again but at least this is a non-automated post.
Here's roughly how it worked. I started with the Sea of Japan palette at Color Lovers:
Then I flipped through a couple design books and stock art for inspiration. Here are a few that were sources for the new look:
IBYS Logo, c. 1929, Euro Deco
Sociedad Anonima Mariano Vila letterhead, 1933, Euro Deco
Indian Matchbox, Matchbox Labels
I also stumbled on an antique compass image I liked in a Google Image search. Then I threw all of these into a blender, added Futura, and pow—new header. So thanks to those sites, books, and designers for inspiration. I'm not sure how this will get me blogging again but at least this is a non-automated post.