An Open Letter to James Cameron From Papyrus

This one made my week, very funny.

Behind The New York Times Magazine’s Redesign

Get ready to see some gorgeous layouts.

When clients take too much design control

Article about the client/designer relationship, interesting.

10 Keys to Growth as a Designer

If you’re lookin to improve your design skills, maybe it would be a good idea to think about what action to take to improve.

Styling your Lists: 20+ Brilliant How to’s and Best Practices

Just discovered a few techniques there, maybe you will too.

A Collection of HTML5 Resources and Tutorials

I’ve been working on my first HTML5 template and these resources are very welcome.

Promoting Your Creative Blog: 8 Great Tips to Success

You should read this article if you are a blogging designer, I would emphasize the importance of guest blogging.

Typo/graphic posters

Yet another awesome article from idsgn, can’t believe I never linked to them so far.

Dropbox as a tool for design business

As a Dropbox user and fan, I strongly recommend this article.

The benefits of experimentation

Great points made in this post, the importance of personal projects is very often underestimated.

Lobster.com logo redesign

I just love this new logo.

How a web design goes straight to hell

As usual a very funny post at The OatMeal.

Top 20+ MySQL best practices

Bookmarked, just in case…

Portfolio design trends

An inspirational look at some vCard portfolio websites.

Digging into WordPress book review

Jean-Baptiste Jung reviews Chris Coyer‘s new WordPress book, made me want to order it.

Advanced CSS text effects & Typography tips

Some great resources to consider for your next design.

20 Amazing Digital Artists You Should Know

A guest post by myself on Media Militia.

What Should You Include In A Design Project Proposal?

Good read for freelancers starting out.

Critical mistakes freelancers make

I’ve made pretty much every mistake mentionned in this article, so I guess it’s worth a read.

10 expert tips for designing a one-page portfolio

Great advice, I’m a big fan of one-page portfolios.

How to determine if you should accept a freelance project

Taking a project that you shouldn’t have can become really annoying, so make sure you read that article.

Design philosophy explained

Interesting article on the philosophy that drives our designs.

25 clever iPhone concept designs

Some good concepts, some not so good ones…

23 pure CSS solutions

If you’re looking to get rid of some of the javascript on your website…

Maintaining multiple websites

Expert advice by Nick La.

Forgiveness in UI design

A reminder that you also have to take your users default into account when designing user interface.

10 Must Have Hacks For WordPress Development

A very useful collection of pieces of WordPress code.

10 short ‘n’ sweet tips on how to design for web

Things you should know before designing your next website.

On Web Typography

Must-read article by Jason Santa Maria on web typography.

Bio-diversity

Cute leaves.

Selecting Hex Color Codes In Photoshop

Very quick tip, but very useful.

Fugly government websites, the ultimate list

So many talented web designers, so few of them working for governments…

Print Design to Web Design: Comparative Analogies

A good read for any print designer who has never worked on the web.

Awesome Papercraft self-portrait

Ok this is just awesome, I have to do mine someday.

Freelancers, what’s your largest business expense?

The answer should be f*cking insurances for anyone living in Switzerland.

Top five best database management tools

Giving a try to Sequel Pro right now, looks pretty good so far.

The “No Retweet necessary” contest by Authentic Jobs

With plenty of cool prices, by the way did you check out the great redesign of the Job Board?

What a logo does not have to be or do

Some good tips right there…

Modern Guilt, unused artwork for the cover.

The difference between a bug and a feature.

Waitrose honey, beautiful packaging.

Tetris furniture, perfect for geeks.

Punctuation university, cool & simple logo.

Russ & Reyn

If you don’t want to miss any of the links shared, you can of course follow me on my Tumblelog if you are a Tumblr user.

• Creative Anti-Smoking Advertisements
  Some very creative and clever ads.
• Sete Dias
  The work of Cristiana Couceiro.
• I shot the Serif
  Funny typographic T-shirt design.
• Cakes & Ale
  Great branding work by Alvin Diec.
• Font Generator
  Discover the amazing rubik’s cube font generator.
• Security Cam Birdhouse
  Some creepy shit right there…
• Top 10 programming fonts
  I’ll take Andale Mono please.
• Custom Field hacks for WordPress
  Yet another useful resource from Smashing Magazine.

From Our Farms, lovely typographic egg packaging.

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• Breaking bad habits in Photoshop
  A good article for people who picked up bad habits on Photoshop.
• No Hidden message
  A cool typographic project.
• Save IE6
  It’s time to get the W3C standard changed to fit IE6.
• A Shoe World
  Cool map with countries represented as shoes.
• Behind the websites
  A cool illustration project by Ricardo Gimenes.
• The crying building
  Cool graffiti, gives a face to the house.
• Salvator Dali clock
  A weird clock that melts your brain.
• Anti-smoking ads
  Will get you baked for sure.

The Pyramid bookcase

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• 10 Transition Effects
  The art of Showing/Hiding Content.
• Kyouei design
  Some great and creative designs.
• My Fontbook
  Easy and free way to browse your font collection.
• Ribbon stairs
  An impressive staircase.
• Lippi selk bag
  Coolest sleeping bag. Period.
• Myriad Table
  Gorgeous table design, almost a sculpture.
• Photos by Ilya Rashap
  Beautiful and atmospheric photos.
• Bedtime story
  The ultimate bed sheet for bedtime reading.
• In defense of eye candy
  Because efficient design is not enough.
• Disney Star Wars weekend posters
  Just awesome!