August 2007
Carbonmade: Your online portfolio. →
Carbonmade is… * The easiest way to display and manage your portfolio online * A clean canvas to show off your work * Instant updating with no HTML experience necessary * A set of easy to use management tools * Images, flash, video… Oh my! * Used by o
Work by Dave Gorum →
I designed and built Carbonmade (w/ Jason of course).
I’ve worked with lots of bands and labels and big and small companies. I build big fancy dynamic sites and don’t put them in my portfolio ‘cos they’re boring to look at. Awful doodles on the other h
How to Photograph Bugs and Insects - -... →
Christopher Badzioch proves that it’s not always the most expensive and specialized gear that makes a great photo — it’s the eye, vision, a sharpie marker, some electrical tape and a cheap homemade sweep that really matter when it comes to making amazing
Talkabout Design - Design Community » Transformer... →
With Transformers blasting through box office, itâs no surprise that we start to see thing like these sneakers. They are really cool and all, but how comfortable can they be?
How to explain RSS to your friends, family &... →
RSS is something I use everyday for my own personal use that speeds up my use of the internet tenfold. Sadly, most people outside the industry still havenât cottoned on to it yet. So Iâm going to try help you to explain it to them.
RSS Mixer Prototype : Custom Feeds for iPhone and... →
Combine all your favorite feeds into one
2008 Trend Report →
What on earth could possibly more important than knowing what will excite consumers, your customers, in 2008 and beyond? Your only challenge: time! So… let our new 2008 Trend Report, to be released on 28 September 2007, do some of the work for you, high
Pew Internet & American Life Project →
The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on
July 2007
Design Vitality > The Open Source Web Design... →
his pervasiveness of the open source spirit in web design now means that you can use open source software to design both graphics and your CSS and HTML, and you can also use the dozens of reliable open source code resources or thousands of web design temp
:::: A Scanner Darkly | A Designer's Life :::::... →
YOU KNOW THAT YOU’RE A DESIGN WHORE WHEN…
Traditional Color Contrasts: Color vs. Color →
Our eyes are extremely delicate tools, but also very trickable ones. They can detect even the slightest change in hue or saturation, but they can also be misled when the environment of a color changes. If you know the mechanics of a color contrast, you ca
Why do you need a validated website? By Lynne... →
A lot of clients ask why they need their âalready working perfectly wellâ website validated. Below is a brief guide to try and answer this in a clear and simple way.
8 beautiful and unusual art sites →
Here are some of the art sites I featured on See me draw in the last couple of weeks:
Blasting the Myth of the Fold - Boxes and Arrows:... →
We are all well aware that web design is not an easy task. There are many variables to consider, some of them technical, some of them human. The technical considerations of designing for the web can (and do) change quite regularly, but the human variables
Gorelov Sergey | designer →
Really fun portfolio. The animation is very smooth and very well done. Nice work too!
The Best Geek Quotes, Sayings, and Phrases - 1 to... →
Priceless collection of geek quotes
nterface: We build pretty apps. →
Design Shop, makers of http://www.carbonmade.com/
Welcome to the Stencil Revolution →
Stencil and Street art portal. Tutorials and Resources coming soon. Great sets of stencil fonts available now.
Is Web Standard So Hard to Conform? - Weakish Blog →
Nowadays, more and more people come to realize the importance of web standard compliant. However, from the examples of Google and Amazon, it’s still a long way to go. In my opinion, the importance of standard-compliant can never be overemphasized. Everyon
twentytwomedia :: the blog of joshua dunaway →
Nice blog design. Like the colors and contrast.
473 + Ajax/Javascript/Dhtml examples and demos to... →
The most updated collection of Ajax, Javascript, DHTML Demos and examples to inspire yourself in building Dynamic User Interfaces.
Mandarin Design: CSS Opacity and Transparency →
Opacity can be thought of conceptually as a postprocessing operation. Conceptually, after the element (including its children) is rendered into an RGBA offscreen image, the opacity setting specifies how to blend the offscreen rendering into the current co
Web Shoppe | CSS | CSS Filters →
CSS filters are a great way to add effects to text, images and other aspects of a webpage without having to make special graphics. Filters only work on Internet Explorer 4.0+, and only work on text if height and width are specified. Some of them only work
Design Better with CRAP - lifehack.org →
Today thatâs all changed. Word processing and desktop publishing software are everywhere, and offer dozens (if not hundreds) of fonts ranging from the simple and elegant to the downright bizarre. Style sheets on the web and easily accessible styling opt
Create a slideshow | Slideshows, photos, pictures... →
Slideshow creating site. Much like Rock You or Slide.
StyleTheWeb.com →
Categorized CSS Gallery and Website Design Inspiration
westciv :: XRAY web developer's suite →
XRAY is the first in hopefully a suite of free cross browser tools for helping web designers and developers better visualize what their code is doing in a browser. XRAY is designed to help you get beneath the skin of your web page. XRAY let’s you see the
Color Matters →
Color plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. It can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress your appetite.
When used in the right ways, col
In The Mod: Color Analytics - A Dr. Woohoo... →
color palette tool that creates a palette based on master painters
Naked & Angry - Existing to create high... →
Submit pattern designs to be scored and manufactured into blow-your-mind products
tiled pattern samples
Improving Your Process: 9 Ways to Improve Yourself... →
From time to time Iâll inadvertently remind myself how much I love what I do. Iâm thankful each and every day that I can go to work and spend my day doing exactly what I love. Not too many people can honestly say that. While, of course, there are days
TANK BOOKS - Tales to take your breath away →
As one habit dies hard, another takes hold. The ban on smoking in public places comes into operation in the UK on July 1, 2007. Tank is launching a series of books designed to mimic cigarette packs â the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silv
Subtraction: Arrogance Among Us →
âWhy are you so high on yourself? Youâre just a designer.â
funny article
Mscape Software - Products - Iconographer →
Iconographer is a fully-featured icon editor. It allows you to both change the icons of items and to edit the icon resources used by various programs. Iconographer has been created from the ground up to deal with many icon formats, including: classic Mac
forgetfoo. — Design Suck Less →
Simple Ways To Help Your Design Suck Less
I often deal with people that have programming and website creation experience but lack any design experience or even common sense in design. Creating things visually pleasing comes naturally to me (I think), I
Iconfinder - Find your icons here →
icon searching tool. shows thumbnails, license information and tags
AjaxDaddy - Ajax Examples in Action →
samples and snippets of AJAX-y goodness
Web 2.0 Badges - Useful collection of stylish web... →
Web20Badges is a set of free and very cool web badges. They are probably one of the most popular trend in Web 2.0 time. They might have various round or square corners and eye-catchy colours. They immediately attract visitor’s attention, it’s most over-us
Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Two Tools for... →
Not every web worker is a web designer, of course. But enough of us at least dabble in that side of things that itâs worth keeping an eye on tools to make web page design easier and better. Here are a couple that I ran across recently and added to my co
Crenk » Great Guerrilla Advertising →
Guerrilla Advertising is an unconventional way of performing promotional activities. Usually very funny or subtle, itâs a great way to promote a business with a low budget and generate buzz. But youâll need lots of creativity.
UX Magazine - Don’t let branding kill your brand →
Oh, the agony and ecstasy of brand orthodoxy. Designers have a love / hate relationship with branding documents and style guides. After all, itâs nice to have a defined style and brand manual. Accepted colors, approved iconography, exhaustively document
Where to get Free Photoshop Brushes, Vector... →
great list of free photoshop resources
SEOCog.com SEO Daily News Blog: Redesign or Fix... →
I am sure many of us have a site that’s just…….out of date. I myself have 2, one is just kinda parked the other matters to me. The question at hand is whether to optimize what you have or redesign. There are many valid proponents for both theories. So
Tutorial Intro: Photoshop Design Template to Web... →
Since a lot of people are into web 2.0 layouts or tabless css layouts. I’ll be teaching you on how to convert a nice Photoshop layout into a nice web2.0 or tableless CSS.
25 Cool Portfolios with Minimalism Design →
Below is the list of cool portfolios of minimalism design that i collected recently. Own a cool and well-design portfolio is very important for a web designers to show off all their works. Do you find that many designers prefer to design a minimalism webs
The Venture Skills Blog Top 5 CSS layout tips « →
So we brought you some great CSS tips to help with accessibility over the weekend, and we discussed how layout helps users get into your page with our look at stumblers and Diggers habits, now its time to introduce the layouts⦠These are our favourite C
containership casualties →
Accidents could happen. Accidents with ships, containers or on containerterminals.
Picasa Web Albums - Ted - Lolcat Bible -... →
The Bible: New International Lolcat Translation
Motivation: Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret -... →
When software developer Brad Isaac told us he had productivity advice from Jerry Seinfeld, we couldn’t turn down the chance to hear more. Read on for the whole story from Brad.
50+ Tools For The WordPress Admin →
Running your Wordpress blog can feel like a full-time job sometimes. Weâve compiled an A-Z list of more than 50 plugins to help you streamline everything you need to do out back. As with any plugins list, donât install them all at once!
