April 2007 Archives
14 entries
Halvorsen
Recently found and purchased. Possibly for an upcoming project.
MTV.com
MTV relaunches this week, swapping the previous all-Flash design with fast and clean HTML. I’ve been working with them for the past few months, consulting on template code and CSS guidance. High fives to the team. Read more about the redesign, and also about the cool new rotating “hats” (logo/background art) produced by various artists.
Airbag fills up
“Airbag Industries LLC, a California corporation and Vertua Studios of Cambridge, Massachusetts have merged operations effective April 1st, 2007. Ethan Marcotte, founder of Vertua Studios will lead all of Airbag’s web standards development.” Congrats, Airbaggers (an undecidedly endearing term)!
The Web Design Survey, 2007
A List Apart asks: “People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with whom do we work? What do we earn? What do we value?” The answers will surely be interesting and highly valuable — if you take the survey. Yes, you.
Coda: one-window web development
From Panic, comes an all-in-one development environment for interface designers. I haven’t tried it yet, but if the text editor is solid, this could be heaven.
POSH
A newly-coined acronym for Plain Old Semantic HTML, POSH is “… a simple short mnemonic term that captures the essence of the concept, and is easily verbed (to posh, poshify, poshed up)”.
Compatriots
Posted at 2:39 PM
Ethan and I would like to direct our fellow Boston-area compatriots here. And should you join us and other web geeks for beverages and (hopefully) interesting conversation, you will be presented with one of these — a token for future meetups, fife n’ drum battles and other potential Society events.
A Few Sites I've Been Enjoying Lately
Posted at 1:39 PM
- Drawn!
- “… is a collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, cartoonists, and anyone who likes to draw. Visit us daily for a dose of links and creative inspiration.” Inspiring, indeed — and updated often.
- Brand New
- Fascinating re-branding commentary. I’m still sobbing over the terrible DQ update.
- Like It Matters
- Brian Oberkirch on all things social media. Smart dude.
- Flip Flop Flying
- Entertaining and often hilarious weblog of pixel artist Craig Robinson.
- Microformatique
- John Allsopp’s weblog covering the world of microformats. See also his newly published book on the same subject. More on this later.
- Animated GIFs group on Virb
- Both Mr. Sims and Mr. Marcotte warned me that I’d get lost in here and kiss the day goodbye. They were right. The ultimate in lo-fi, mashup, “video” goodness.
Meloriac
“… a pseudo-retro, unicase display font. An obvious tribute to Futura Ultra-Mega-Freakin’-Black and Avant Garde Heavy Heavy Heavy Heavy; Meloriac is ideal for tight headlines and logos. Squish! When we say tight kerning, we mean disco-slacks-tight 1970s kerning.”
Chunky Icons Shirt Winner
Posted at 10:16 AM
Admittedly, I loved all the guesses as to the meaning behind the five icons that grace the front of the newly printed Chunky Icons T-Shirt. But we have to choose one. And so, it’s my privilege to crown Cliff as the the winner of a free shirt. His entry was as follows:
Modern hieroglyphics which translate roughly to:
‘Silence your cellphone, Dude, or ship out, OK?’
Cliff’s translation can also be a lesson to us all. Congrats!
I’ll also take this opportunity to mention that the shirts are flying off the shelves, and a re-order has already been placed for a second run. If you’ve ordered within the past week, bear with me for a possible slight delay on a few sizes.
Let’s say you were in the market for a label printer. And let’s also say you’re on a Mac. Don’t bother with Brother. Get the Dymo that costs a little bit more, but doesn’t require a driver that never ends up working (when’s the last time you needed to install a driver on a Mac?) and that comes with software that works like you’d expect label printer software to work (hello terrible Windows 3.1 port!).
That’s all for now. Label on.
SimpleFools
A Flickr pool of yesterday’s April Fool’s logo hijinx. I’m still chuckling over each and every one of these. Bravo, folks!
Something tells me my legal team is going to be very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very (Update: very very) busy tonight. Note to self: get a legal team!
I probably missed some (Lauren Smith has a comprehensive list here), but I love you all. Hilarious!
Bulletproof Web Design Second Edition New Riders
Web Standards Solutions The Markup and Style Handbook Friends of EdA tiny design studio founded by Dan Cederholm. We create simple interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology, and we’re based in Massachusetts, USA.