Tag Archives: webdesign
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- IKEA goes with Verdana | Typophile
the space-time continuum folds in on itself as IKEA switches from everyone's favorite typeface Futura to the ridiculously ugly made-for-small-text-on-monitors Verdana, in the name of style consistency across all countries including asia. Big mistake. This is like IKEA's version of "New Coke". stunningly dumb.
- three frames
my new favorite site [via @bigspaceship]
- Art & Copy Film
A documentary film about the truth in advertising. A film by Doug Pray, the Director of Surf Wise, Scratch and Hype!
- YouTube – Tarantino's Top 20 Movies Since 1992
interesting choices with explanation. Wong Kar- Wai's "In The Mood for Love" is not on the list. major oversight. I really like that "Unbreakable" is on it. I loved that movie and still do. incidentally, is it me or is Tarantino looking a bit like a hot tranny mess?
- Good Hair ft. Chris Rock- Official Trailer
now this is.a film i can get behind, hilarious.
- Giant Waterslide Jump
I know this is ridiculously old. my links are a bit stale from my trip up north yonder. but… reason 1023 for why the internet is better than tv: so that i can watch beautiful, priceless short clips like this without having to sit the drudgery of an hour long dumb home movie video show hosted by an unfunny stand-up comic and packed with commercials for environmentally insensitive products i don't need. watch the clip. hilarious, yet stunning in its accuracy.
- Core CMS
super easy to use content management system for photographers and designers "Core is a Content Management System (CMS) made with the designer in mind, someone who want to show off all their work with an easy updateable and customizable website without having to deal with databases, scripting and extensive php."
Posted in bookmarks | Also tagged advertising, cms, comedy, copywriting, delicious, documentary, films, fonts, funny, humor, lists, marketing, movies, netart, Photography, portfolio, resources, typeface, typography, video |
- The New Yorker: Carlos Slim, the NY Times and Latin american Telco
"What does Slim’s economic power—he owns the cell-phone lines, the top retailers, the restaurants, the utilities—mean for Mexican politics? Do you think he has negatively affected Mexico’s economic growth, as critics claim, or has he just taken advantage of a system?" – My answer? hell yes! If I was the mexican government, I'd nationalize all of Slim's assets in a heartbeat. Slim puts the "Mo" in monopoly. Mo Money, Mo Money.
- YouTube – Sasquatch 2009 Dancing Man Party
all it takes is one person. spend 3 minutess and 44 seconds watching this video. it is inspirational and conceptually applicable to so many other things in our daily lives. and this is not a "viral" video created by some dumb product company. this is the real shizness, the human spirit spontaneously coming together to bust a move. If you find stuff like this corny, unsubscribe from my blog now, you're dead to me. Ok, the music *is* kinda corny, I'll give you that. [via stevey, again again! Stevey is tweeting *so* hard]
- xkcd – A Webcomic – Troll Slayer
this is about the funniest comic I have seen in the last 10 years. hilarious. [warning: geek net humor] – [via stevey, again!]
- Goodbye, GM …by Michael Moore
"It is with sad irony that the company which invented "planned obsolescence" — the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one — has now made itself obsolete. It refused to build automobiles that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as safe as they could be, and were exceedingly comfortable to drive. Oh — and that wouldn't start falling apart after two years. GM stubbornly fought environmental and safety regulations…" – brilliant piece and very much in tune with the previous article on American Airlines. AA is the airline version of GM. [via stevey]
- Dear American Airlines | Dustin Curtis
Curtis gets so pissed off at American Airlines' website that he redesigns the homepage and blogs about it. A User Interface Architect from AA responds. The short of the story is that AA is such a behemoth zombie corporate structure that changes involve endless review and approval cycles across multiple different fiefdoms within the company and any approved changes take years to see the light of day. Curtis then follows up with some excellent ideas on how companies like AA are solely focused on the bottom line and customer experience isn't even an after-thought. My question: should the US government be giving free handouts to zombie corporations like American Airlines? If this is how you run your company and you run it into the ground, then you deserve to watch it burn.
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- Hell Green
Japan photography trip blog from Shortstraw cohort Elle. I kinda wish I was in Japan, right about now. with the Greenroom Festival coming up.
- 100 Abandoned Houses
haunting and beautiful collection of abandoned houses in the Detroit area. from the "about" page: "For years the area had signs advertising the redevelopment that was about to take place. It finally began to happen, with the construction of the new ballpark for the Tigers, and Ford Field for the Lions. New condos, and town homes began to appear amidst the rubble of burned out mansions turned apartments. Some of the houses were so large they became “loft condos”. As the entertainment district flourished, and Brush Park began to transform into something new, I realized the other approximately 135 square miles of Detroit was largely ignored. The excitement about Detroit’s “rebirth” took center stage, while much of the rest of the city was becoming largely abandoned" [via Good]
- Introducing Typekit « The Typekit Blog
all browsers will soon support a wide range of fonts. but using fonts on the web (in most cases) is a direct violation of the font's copyright, as linking to a font gives the viewer a direct way to download the font . It's like using a font to print a book and then including the font with the printed book. Enter TypeKit, a web app that designers and developers subscribe to. The service has a collection of typefaces that the dev can link to in their jscript and TypeKit handles all the background witch's brew of delivering the font to the end user's screen, without that iser being able to download the font package. Interesting idea! I wonder what the tech looks like behind the service and the susbcription fees.
- secret forts: Domestic Furniture/Domestic Architecture: Roy McMakin.
fine art, architecture and furniture all clash here. great work! that green staircase? i'll have one, please.
- greg.org: Obamas slowly replacing staid art in the White House with modern art
How cool is this?: "According to the very slowly reported story [1] in the Wall Street Journal, the Obamas have been selecting modern and contemporary art for the White House from among pieces in national and museum collections. The artists they requested includes several African American artists, including the wonderful DC abstractionist Alma Thomas, whose paintings from the Hirshhorn are already installed in the White House's private quarters. But they've also chosen plenty of white contemporary artists, too, though the Journal obviously doesn't identify them as such: works by Ed Ruscha, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson and Jasper Johns all came from the National Gallery, for example." – cue the old white guy rage
- Guggenheim Guadalajara: Not a Dead Deal? – CultureGrrl
The Guggenheim Foundation has been planning to build a new museum in Guadalajara for the past 7 years or so. A museum to rival Bilbao's. but apparently it's dead in the water, or close to it. sucks, the arch drawing is beautiful. and it would have been awesome to have modern art museum within 2000 miles of where i live.
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- Where did this thing come from? The Swine. Influenza in Mexico City
interesting read. conspiracy theory-laiden blog ramblings. if you're sick of the 24/7 news coverage that still manages to say nothing new.
- jQuery for Designers – Tutorials and screencasts
so you're a web designer (i.e. not really a programmer), you know your way around xhtml, css and can even hack your way through php enough to get your designs up and running in WordPress (i'm basically describing myself) but you javascript gives you the heebies. Well, this is the site for you (me). lots of good tutorials on integrating the jquery framework into your sites. Incidentally, I rarely see cool websites nowadays that aren't using some kind of jscript framework.
- Kim Høltermand – Photography
beautiful landscape and architecture photography. I'd love to see these printed large. and the flash-based site is minimal and awesome. great design/programming.
- Should I Be Worried About Swine Flu?
statistics don't lie
- "Cuban Skateboard Crisis" a 2007 Documentary
awesome docu on skateboarding in Cuba. if you're not on it already, Glen Friedman is killing it on his blog, go grab the rss. i know i sound like a broken record, but he is on it.
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- How to: Make a Hand-Drawn Font | BittBox
good little tutorial on getting your hand-drawn type into the computer. for all you hand-written script surf logotype peoples. hint hint.
- Ryan Alaia Sequence | Nathan Oldfield
how dope is this Alaia sequence? i haven't seen much Alaia sequences (film or video) so this is the first time I've seen what it takes to turn these finless wooden boards. You can see the wood flexing in his backside turn. amazing. I would love a 20×30 inch print of this sequence image from this post
- MUJI
Muji has some amazing products both residential and commercial (clothing, interior design, furniture, etc..). they seem to be all about dope, minimal user experience. beautiful stuff. and very playful. Marcia says the dresses look like extras from the compound on "Big Love".
- Teehan+Lax UX Fund
this is very interesting. these guys set up a fund of 50k and pick stocks whose companies excel at "user experience". Companies like Apple, Google, Nike and Jet Blue. I'm gonna plug these picks into google/finance and see what the charts say. Very interesting.
- paul isakson: Hitting Reset
"In this video, Emily Haines touches on one of the major themes felt around the world right now – a large cloud of uncertainty and doubt hangs over many people's heads. I know that on a personal level, I've never talked with so many people asking the "what do I want to do with my life" question before. People are questioning much of what they felt good about before. They are considering giving up on things they've been doing for years. They're not sure where to go or what to do next. They are searching for answers and help."
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- Chávez creates overnight bestseller with book gift to Obama
"A 36-year-old historical tract attacking the imperialist exploitation of Latin America has become an improbable overnight bestseller after the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez abruptly presented a copy to Barack Obama." – add Obama's moves to open relations with Cuba and I don't know how much more happier I could be about having Obama in office. This guy has a shopping list of wrongs (our country has done over the past 40 years) and he is righting every one of them. Obama is an inspirational dude. I know I've linked it before, but for a good primer on the subject of exploitation of Latin American read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman".
- Voules Random
great indie electronic mp3 blog. tons of great music here. try Wolfy vs. Projections. reminds of the old 'Moon Tribe' years, albeit my kind of electronic music stops at royksopp. if you can dance to it, i probably won't dig it. it took my 10 years to appreciate Daft Punk.
- Shawn MORTENSEN ::: PHOTOGRAPHY
amazing body of work by Mortensen who recently passed away at the age of 43 (?!). Mortensen seems to have been at the epicenter of several different underground art movements over his 20+ yrs shooting. His list of subjects is *deep*. more info over at SuperTouch
- SuperTouch » FIRST LOOK: “McGEE, TEMPLETON, PETTIBON” AT CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY
McGee, Templeton, Pettibon. curated by Aaron Rose. great photos from the Berlin show. put this show on the very long list of "things I'd do if i had endless loochie"
- Legwork Studio
ridiculously sweet website from a design shop in Denver. love the scaffolding content. For extra bonus, peep the "about" video, redonkulous. [via Eli's tweet]
Posted in bookmarks | Also tagged Art, blog, css, delicious, Design, documentary, electronic, fashion, illustration, inspiration, jquery, latinamerica, mp3, music, obama, Photography, politics, portfolio |
- Mexico Law Blog | mexican law and news for business and investors
one of my new favorite blogs. an excellant peek into the powers that run Mexico and their relation to the US. english language blog.
- but does it float
"an ongoing visual conversation curated by Folkert and Atley." – amazing collection of photography. mostly architectural and landscape.
- Kanye West sneakers for Nike and Louis Vuitton
i could totally rock some kanye west louis vuitton sneakers. look at those things. that tongue in the back. perfect. relatedly: i want some air yeezies these things are like Nike Frankenstein sneaker boots very Back to the Future inspired. The nikes are slightly more affordable.
- OSK DESIGN
going on the complete opposite side of some of the links I've posted lately, this guy OSK is one some other shit. I love his aesthetic. gorgeous, artful stuff, and intentionally lo-tech. I'm really feeling his design sense.
- Matt Reeves bites into 'Right One' – Variety
the director of 'cloverfield' is going to remake "Let the Right One In" (a movie I loved). why do american directors remake near perfect foreign films, why not go remake Apocalypse Now or Scarface or something more challenging?
Posted in bookmarks | Also tagged Architecture, Art, blog, business, delicious, graphicdesign, inspiration, landscape, law, mexico, movies, Photography, portfolio, sneakers |
- designedmemory
this guy makes intelligent, artful, creative, artistic and subtle flash-based websites. I am in awe. he made the "au revoir simone" site.
- Au Revoir Simone.
beautiful site for a great band. magical.
- BILLY HARVEY MUSIC
beautiful flash site for a musician. raw and rough on the outside, sweet and spicy on the inside
- WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?: Jay Adams is out of jail and online…
Glen E Friendman has a great post on Jay Adams (dogtown legend). Jay is out of jail and surfing the north shore. Friedman has posted a wide swath of good Jay photos. I love the shot of him and Tony Alva. I'd dig a blog post like this on each of the Z-Boys. This is like a respectful punk-rock version of "where are they now". Friedman would probably unceremoniously disembowel me if he ever read that last bit.
- Lyndon Wade | Photographer
great photography. amazing website.
- Muller — Anatomy of…
awesome design series from Tom Muller (Kleber design studio). In this series, he goes in to the process behind the projects he's designed for clients. I especially like the Viking logo one. A great resource for designers, from a guy who's been visible on the web since the late 90s.
- Republic Bike | fixed gear bicycles
gorgeous bikes. i love all the colors and options. check out their Build feature to build your own.
- iolabs – fine art reproduction, large format printing, photographic and textile imaging, giclee, providence, rhode island
museum quality digital photography printing service. Hahnemühle papers, color correction, large format printing, display imaging. tons of cool options. their flickr site is rad too. tons of good humor in the studio. I'm gonna try these guys out for an upcoming gallery show in Vallarta.
- James Day – photographer
everything a flash-driven photography portfolio website should be and nothing it shouldn't. amazing photography. amazing presentation. See – flash can be cool. sometimes.
- LET IT DIE: Rushkoff on the economy
"The thing that is dying—the corporatized model of commerce—has not, nor has it ever been, supportive of the real economy. It wasn’t meant to be. And before we start lamenting its demise or, worse, spending good money after bad to resuscitate it, we had better understand what it was for, how it nearly sucked us all dry, and why we should put it out of our misery."
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- Wildlife thrives at Chernobyl – Telegraph
Awesome photo series with nice, short descriptions. Synopsis: major nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl. Everyone evacuates. 20 years later, wildlife is thriving and returning back to their normal hunter/prey routines. Go nature!
- How To Develop A Facebook Page That Attracts Millions of Fans
if you're a small business that sells a product or service directly to consumers Facebook should definitely be one of your major focus points along with Twitter. This articles helps you understand the why and how.
- Product Planner – View and Create User Flows, Viral Loops, and More.
ok, so you have a great idea for a website or web application and you have to organize it out so other people can understand your genius. Your now in the area of flow charts and site maps. This is called "Information Architecture" and it's language, unfortunately, you don't speak this language, and the tools are confusing. Product Planner is a site that not only helps you create these things, but they show examples of popular services you probably use every day. amazing! [via Konigi - the ux mastah]
- userfly — instant web usability testing
amazing web app that records your users' movements. simply by cut n pasting their js call into your page header. super simple. and the user playback is smooth fast and insanely addictive. This is a great tool for larger sites. for blogs like mine, it's painful watching a bunch of people come in to the site, scroll up and down and then close the page in 10 seconds or less. But still, very addictive. and you get 10 free captures. great way to hook you into the paying service.
- WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?
iconic photographer/artist/writer/documentarian Glen E. Friedman started a blog not too long ago. and as to be expected, it's an awesome read. time to go to school, kids.
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- The Creepy Driftwood Art of Mike Shine
great work from old school sf artists and surfing rustabout Mike Shine. Check out his "surf shack" project. incredible. extra points for the scary-ass russian (?) soundtrack. more on the surf shack at Juztapoz
- Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture | UX Booth
"Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why it’s related to usability, and what are the common tools/programs used in information architecture."
- Lovely Charts | Flowcharts, Sitemaps, Organisation charts, Wireframes, Family trees, Network diagrams
beautiful and dead simple web app for information design. so nice. i'm testing it now. I really like how the app basically cuts away all the finaggling crapola so you can concentrate on what's important. these guys learned a lot from apple's ilife apps.
- FILE MAGAZINE
a new dvd/print based magazine from the uk. i really like the design of the mag, but more so, i love the simplicity of their website. modern. minimal. nice
- Desire Paths: Branding for Digital Lives | Mike Arauz
Great presentation on how the process of branding your product is radically changing with the invention of social networks and the larger move of people spending more time online. Synopsis: brands need to find their passion in order to be abel to connect. Useful for anyone who has a brand or product they are trying to get people interested in. [via Big Spaceship]
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- Saltwater by Carsten Jamrow
great "on the road" blog by another designer/photographer. occasional surf related photos and lots of urban photog stuff. great style.
- Bruce Haley's Tao of War Photography
Bruce Haley is one of the masters of war photo journalism. Here he runs down 63 worrisome/funny/disgusting/hilarious ruminations on death, god, photography, war, famine etc… definitely worth a sunday read. his sense of humor is – how would you say, um "colorful" or better yet "baroque". This guy must be a total trip at dinner parties.
- SpaceCollective
stunning web design. well executed. peep the different view modes in "new posts". we're gonna start to see a whole lot more of this kind of thing.
- World Builder on Vimeo
stunning short film in which man builds a virtual world using "minority report" style holographic tools for the woman he loves. – awesome. stick around for the ending.
- Drum Set
making your own electronic music. total time waster. click the robot head for more fun.
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