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June 8, 2008
Design links for the week
Design links for the week

Plumbing art Hairstyles your mother wouldn’t approve History moments in Lego Speakers designed the way they should be Whiskas origami advertisement Helvetica Poster Beginner jQuery tutorials Help yourself Helvetica calendar 2008 Video games ruined my life Giant letters furniture Typographic packaging The anatomy of a gummy bear If you don’t want to miss any of […]

June 4, 2008
Free WordPress theme: Happy Cyclope
Free WordPress theme: Happy Cyclope

Happy Cyclope is a 2 columns, easy-to-customize wordpress theme. It is of course widget ready and WordPress 2.5 ready, but hasn’t been tested with previous versions. Categories and archives pages are presented as lists, which makes it nice for sites with a lot of content. The header is made of two images, one for the […]

May 11, 2008
Design links for the week
Design links for the week

The baby giraffe is here Daily drawings from the New York Times crosswords SEO guide for designers Zebra striping, does it really help? Brilliant ad for knives The most dangerous species in the mediterranean You can of course follow me on my Tumblelog if you are a Tumblr user.

May 1, 2008
RSS for designers
RSS for designers

If you are reading blogs, there are good chances that you already know about RSS. Anyway, DailyBlogTips organized a RSS awareness day to help the expanding of this technology’s usage. I will not explain what RSS is here, so if you don’t know anything about it, just go there. So what can designers do with […]

April 27, 2008
RSS awareness day
RSS awareness day

The RSS awareness day is a great initiative by Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips. The goal is to spread the word about RSS, how to use it and why you should use it. If you are not using RSS yet, you should definitely take a look at the RSS day homepage.

January 24, 2008
Full review of Coda
Full review of Coda

I was planning to write a review of Coda, the amazing one-window web development software by Panic, but Shawn Blanc just wrote an extensive one. Since I am lazy and I wouldn’t do any better, I will not write my review and just link to Shawn’s.

January 15, 2008
Webdesigner != DJ
Webdesigner != DJ

if your visitors want to listen music they will listen their mp3, your site is not a jukebox. In fact they most likely already are listening music and yours is only mixing with it, creating an unbearable and unwanted musical chaos. I could make every word of this rant mine.

January 3, 2008
Bad layout conventions
Bad layout conventions

Design View has an interesting article on bad layout conventions, check it out.

November 21, 2007
Huge list of jQuery plugins
Huge list of jQuery plugins

Kollermedia has gathered a great list of jQuery plugins. You’ll find there everything you may need from this lightweight Javascript library: form validation, color picker, inline editors, image gallery, tooltips… and much more! Via Stylegala.

September 25, 2007
Ethical design: Accessibility
Ethical design: Accessibility

Drawing by FMinus Accessibility is an issue in almost every aspect of design. Architecture is probably the most discussed area even though it is still hard to access buildings when in a wheelchair. However, I’ll just focus on graphic design and web design. Graphic design When doing print design, you always have to make sure […]