January 2012
1 post
Carrot Dressing | WholeFoodsMarket.com →
December 2011
9 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Bob Dylan (3)
KT Tunstall (2)
The Bird and The Bee (1)
Sarah McLachlan (1)
Parenthetical Girls (1)
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With a Trace Word of the Day : palimpsest →
In situations that require a word that is unambiguously learned and literary, palimpsest is pretty hard to beat. Its roots mean “scraped again,” but its meaning has developed into something fairly…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
The Muppets (15)
Cider Sky (6)
Barenaked Ladies (4)
Sixpence None The Richer (3)
Jónsi (3)
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Gradient App for OS X →
The Missing Link between Web Designers and Colors
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Keynotopia →
User Interface Design Libraries for Keynote, PowerPoint and OpenOffice
CSS Lint →
Your CSS goes here. The more, the better. Linting works best when we see the big picture, so give us everything you’ve got.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Cocteau Twins (3)
She & Him (3)
Ella Fitzgerald (3)
Glee Cast (3)
Sarah McLachlan (2)
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Change Mac OS X 10.7 Lion iCal and Address Book... →
The one reason I can’t use this is the type is still brown. Talk about a detail!
November 2011
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Blondie (3)
Bob Dylan (2)
The Cars (1)
Darius Rucker (1)
Scott Weiland (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Gold Panda (22)
The Black Keys (16)
Tiësto (15)
Christina Perri (12)
B.B. King (12)
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Duran Duran -”Girl Panic!” Video (Feat. A Bunch Of... →
It’s been 30 years since Duran Duran’s first release and subsequent world-beating ways, crafting a sleek, designer-pop that sounded expensive and fashionable, indulgent and sexy and just a bit…
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
The Beach Boys (23)
Roots Manuva (5)
William Orbit (4)
DJ Krush (4)
Tricky (2)
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Roundtable →
I am seriously loving the concept of Roundtable. Read in on smart folks having conversations on topics like Future of Blogging, Entrepreneurship and Startup Funding. Oh,…
tattoo it yourself cards →
Well, hello, my new favorite cards in the world. These clever little cards from Andrew Kolb let you share your own custom drawings or messages with the recipient by “tattooing” them on…
October 2011
21 posts
Don’t be stupid – use Smartr for iPad to read the... →
Smartr is one of my favourite iOS apps, period. The iPhone version is a one of, if not the, best methods for consuming news and only news, posted to your social networks and curated by your…
Linger a Little Longer by Jay Watson →
UK-based, Australian-born designer Jay Watson launched his Linger a Little Longer table and bench set at 100% Design.
With a thermochromatic finish, the table and benches respond to…
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“Sometimes you have to make your own rainbows.”
– Forgive me in advance for being cliché?
Yesterday, as I was cleaning the blinds — a job which had me on my hands and knees on the patio up to my elbows in soapy water with a big scrubber — I had plenty of time to spend with my own thoughts.
Sometimes, most of the time (if I’m being honest)...
Why Spotify and Facebook are Apple’s iTunes worst... →
Digital music has transformed year after year since Shawn Fanning brought us Napster in 1999. The service allowed you to easily download music in MP3 format that you hadn’t paid for. Needless…
Instapaper 4 stays on page one with a great new... →
The first page. Any iPhone or iPad user knows that the first page is hallowed ground. An app doesn’t make its way there and stay there unless you use it a lot, as in daily or more.
…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
Charlotte Gainsbourg (13)
Client (11)
Nelly Furtado (2)
Katy Perry (2)
Zola Jesus (1)
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Return →
So yes, I’ve been away from the site for, er, way too long. To say, “I’ve been busy” would be a cop-out. I’ve been busy on a few personal projects that have taken up most of my ‘spare’ time and…
Starlee Kine: Fear, Heartbreak, and Making It... →
At the 99% Conference, “This American Life” contributor and producer Starlee Kine talks about what making ideas happen has to do with Little Orphan Annie and Phil Collins.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Timbaland (16)
Ivy (11)
Feist (8)
Laurie Anderson (1)
Matt Willis (1)
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SelfControl by Steve Lambert →
This is for those of us that have zero self-control. :\
Karen O Covers Willie Nelson And Waylon Jennings... →
A few weeks ago, Willie Nelson covered a Coldplay song for a Chipotle online video. That was pretty weird! Now, Yeah Yeah Yeahs leader Karen O has covered the classic Willie Nelson/Waylon…
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Tennis Covers The Zombies →
It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Denver vintage pop duo Tennis, but today they’re back with a cover of The Zombies’ “Tell Her No” as well as an announcement for an upcoming release….
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16 Pixels: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A... →
16 Pixels
For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake I know what you’re thinking. “Did he just say 16 pixels? For body copy? Obnoxiously big!…
Marker.to lets you highlight annotate and share on... →
If you’ve ever wanted to share a section of a website, particularly content or text on the page and not an image, taking a screenshot and uploading it is probably too lengthy of a process and…
New TypeTogether free font: Birdy! →
Birdy was especially created during the Graphic Design Walk as part of the London Design Festival.The event was organised by the team of GraphicBirdWatching who invited TypeTogether to…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
Apparat (9)
Neon Indian (7)
Razorlight (3)
Anthony Braxton (2)
Hubert Laws (2)
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September 2011
15 posts
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disconaivete:
Zane Lowe just premiered The...
Figuring Out Numerals →
A support request made me realize that we don’t really have an all-encompassing post to forward to users requesting information about figures. Figuring It Out: OSF, LF, and TF Explained, the very…
Freedom - Windows and Mac Internet Blocking... →
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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at...”
– Hellen Keller (via @stefsull)
Instagram 2.0 adds high-res saving, revamped... →
Instagram has today made a ton of improvements to its iPhone app. These include the ability to save high-resolution images suitable for printing, view your filters and tilt-shift effects…
We, Who Are Web Designers →
In 2003, my wife Lowri and I went to a christening party. We were friends of the hosts but we knew almost no-one else there. Sitting next to me was a thirty-something woman and her husband, both…
Nutrition facts, calories in food, labels,... →
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Semi-bold
clientsfromhell:
Client: “Can you make the headline semi-bold?” Me: “Semi-bold?” Client: “Yes. Bold is too bold and unbold isn’t bold enough. I think it needs to be semi-bold.” Me: “… I can bold every other letter.” Client: “I don’t need to know the technical details, as long as it’s semi-bold.”
Too funny. Unfortunately there *is* such a thing as semibold in some typefaces. So for a client to...
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot English Novelist 1819–1880
The Permanent Mark: Honoring 9/11 →
A decade later‚ COLLINS asks: how should we commemorate 9/11?
From commemorative pins to stars-and-stripes-clad paraphernalia, there have been many attempts to commemorate the events of…
Mac app Focus lets you add effects to photos you... →
When I was in college pursuing a degree in multimedia, I had taken a course in photography. There, I was introduced to the wonderful concept of depth of field (DoF), which refers to how…