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In Brief: 5-year-old Analyzes Logos - Brand New
A wonderful insight into logos as seen by a 5 year old girl.
logo  design 
february 2012 by amdavidson
Crashed Ferrari Table | Charly Molinelli
What else would you do with a wrecked Ferrari?
ferrari  automobiles  coffeetable  furniture  design 
november 2011 by amdavidson
Huffencooper holiday card 2010 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Awesome holiday card design based on the names of Santa's Reindeer.
design  holiday  rudolph 
august 2011 by amdavidson
Improving the Scrolling Experience in Lion | Jettison Canopy
A proposal to fix the inability to determine if there is material outside the current view when using Lion with the default of the scroll bars being disabled
lion  osx  scrollbars  ui  ux  design 
august 2011 by amdavidson
Edward Tufte’s “Slopegraphs”
An interesting, succinct, and under utilized way to present data.
visualization  design  infographic  chart 
july 2011 by amdavidson
Kind of Screwed
An interesting story of one artist's pixel art rendering of a famous Miles Davis album cover for the cover of his chip tune tribute to Kind of Blue and the copyright lawsuit that followed.
copyright  design  lawsuit  chiptune  tribute  fairuse  pixelart 
june 2011 by amdavidson
Some Clouds Have a Golden Lining
A graphic that shows the use of the golden ratio in Apple's iCloud logo. Its the details that make it great.
apple  design  details  goldenratio 
june 2011 by amdavidson
How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail | The Invisible
A wonderful example of how Apple has designed the iPhone to be the most wonderful device on the planet.
apple  design  ios  iphone  mail 
january 2011 by amdavidson
notes on "how to clone delicious in 48 hours"
A quick write-up on how difficult it is to clone a service such as del.icio.us.
design  programming  webdev  blog  article  development  delicious  yahoo  services  security 
december 2010 by amdavidson
Giant Pandas Are Poorly Designed
A funny anaylsis of some scientific findings regarding the efforts to breed giant pandas.
panda  survival  extinction  breeding  husbandry  animals  design  wildlife  from delicious
december 2010 by amdavidson
Face All Red
art  awesome  comic  cool  design  death  halloween  web  twitter  story  portfolio  painting  inspiration  illustration  creepy  horror  illustrator  scary  stories  webcomic  comics  webcomics  from delicious
november 2010 by amdavidson
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: I Am the Orson Welles of PowerPoint.
Awesome (as always for McSweeney's) article on one man's view of his powerpoint abilities.
design  funny  humor  internet  powerpoint  office  cinema  mcsweeneys  from delicious
october 2010 by amdavidson
Catalog Living
A very amusing tumblelog of photos from catalogs and a quick story recounting a story of an imaginary couple, "Gary and Elaine" that explains the photo.
awesome  blog  comedy  design  fun  funny  humor  photos  catalog  daily  from delicious
october 2010 by amdavidson
My First Week with the iPhoneBehind the Curtain | Behind the Curtain
An iPhone review, one week in. Would be standard fare except that this review is written by a blind person.
blog  apple  design  inspiration  iphone  technology  voiceover  mobile  colour  blind  accessibility  from delicious
september 2010 by amdavidson
Tag Galaxy
extraordinarily beautiful flickr tag explorer. highly recommended. uses an interesting planetary ui scheme to allow you to combine related tags and drill down into more specific photos.
3d  animation  inspiration  tools  interface  visualization  tags  photo  art  cool  design  flash  flickr  fun  image  images  search  pictures  photos  photography  tag  tagging  gallery  galaxy  aggregator  web2.0  mashup  from delicious
september 2010 by amdavidson
Hard Times: Observatory: Design Observer
A story about one man's collection of signs of homeless people and other pan handlers that he has bought over the years.
article  photos  sign  city  design  typography  diy  urban  images  marketing  message  money  signs  poverty  persuasion  homeless  from delicious
september 2010 by amdavidson
Noise and textures
noise and textures for buttons and other interface elements
art  design  graphic  howto  interface  photoshop  reference  tips  tutorial  tutorials  ui  webdesign  button  buttons  effects  noise  texture  textures  from delicious
august 2010 by amdavidson
Core77 speaks with Jonathan Ive on the design of the iPhone 4: Material Matters - Core77
Interesting article that really brings to light what I'm doing for Apple and how it enables the beautiful products that we produce.
apple  article  design  development  interview  iphone  materials  process  core77  industrial  industrialdesign  iphone4  jonathan_ive  hardware  jonyive  ive  jony  from delicious
june 2010 by amdavidson
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Busy Being Born
a photographic history of the development of the Lisa interface... the first GUI based computer.
apple  article  design  history  interesting  mac  interface  macintosh  gui  ui  lisa  from delicious
june 2010 by amdavidson
Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.
Awesome essay written from the perspective of Comic Sans.
article  awesome  blog  comedy  design  font  fonts  typography  type  comic-sans  comicsans  font_  fonts_  helvetica  humour  from delicious
june 2010 by amdavidson
Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod
In printed books, the two-page spread was our canvas. It's easy to think similarly about the iPad. Let's not. The canvas of the iPad must be considered in a way that acknowledge the physical boundaries of the device, while also embracing the effective limitlessness of space just beyond those edges.
Apple  iPad  content  design  books  framework  display  ebook  kindle  nook  from delicious
april 2010 by amdavidson
TidBITS iPhone iPad iPod: Why the iPad Is a Blank Slate, and Why That's Important
an interesting review on the iPad and how the fact that it only presents a single app at a time is the true key to the "iPad experience"
apple  ipad  design  reference  tablet  analysis  technology  trends  review  from delicious
april 2010 by amdavidson
hotel door hangers collected by my grandfather - Michael Lebowitz
A fascinating collection of "Do not disturb" signs from a man's lifetime of travel. Very interesting to see.
photography  collection  collector  lifetime  do  not  disturb  sign  theme  translation  travel  languages  design  inspiration  pinboard 
october 2009 by amdavidson
 TwistedMac - Mac OS X Over The Years
A look back at each verson of Mac OS X since its release as a public beta in Fall 2000.
design  apple  mac  osx  history  macosx  pictures  operatingsystem  interface  screenshots  software  cheetah  puma  jaguar  leopard  snow  beta  public  operating  system 
august 2009 by amdavidson
Alice in Wonderland Remix -- YooouuuTuuube.com
An interesting Alice in Wonderland song that works very well with the YooouuuTuuube site.
design  video  funny  webdesign  fun  music  youtube  art  remix  inspiration  trippy  alice  cool  animation  aliceinwonderland  awesome  wonderland  yooouuutuuube  flash  cut  scene  electronica 
august 2009 by amdavidson
Human Eye Camera « FOUR FIFTHS DESIGN
An interesting concept: What would it look like if our eye could output RAW images? The author stitches photos using knowledge of our eye's optics to demonstrate... Would be really fun to do a series using a GigaPan or something like that, but it would be easier if my eye just output DNG files.
design  technology  camera  lens  focal  length  theoretical  prototype  stitching  perspective  neural  processing  photo  photography  eye  optic  optical 
july 2009 by amdavidson
map for hong kong,map of hong kong city,e map of hong kong,3D map for hong kong,public transportation map,public transportation map_Edushi
A very cool isometric-ish cartoony map of Hong Kong. Incredibly detailed, but almost seems SimCity-ish with the colors and textures.
design  reference  visualization  travel  google  art  fun  maps  hongkong  map  3d  architecture  interactive  illustration  isometric 
july 2009 by amdavidson
Web-kreation - Add File Type Icons next to your links with CSS
Add icons to the end of links to indicate external links or file type. Uses CSS expressions which may be bad for page load times.
webdev  design  howto  tutorial  tips  css  web  development  tutorials  tricks  icons  programming  links  webdesign  link  icon  file  type  filetype  files 
june 2009 by amdavidson
Dzine Blog | Archive | Resources
Good site for lots of free resources for stock imagery.
photoshop  css  design  free  graphics  download  vector  psd  resource 
may 2009 by amdavidson
How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong
Funny (to me) article on the rise of apple with some insight into life at apple.
process  apple  mac  design  technology  management  wired  jobs  steve  opacity  transparency  secrecy 
may 2009 by amdavidson
TypeNow.net Themed Fonts Download Free Movie and Music Fonts
Cool fonts from movies and bands... might be good for making quickie homage images or something.
tools  typography  design  free  font  webdesign  graphics  download  fonts 
may 2009 by amdavidson
Download "Gallery": A Free WordPress Theme | Freebies | Smashing Magazine
Been meaning to do my own theme for sweetcron... like the looks of this, I'll probably end up using it for inspiration.
wordpress  design  blog  sweetcron  lifestream  free  theme  template 
may 2009 by amdavidson
Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial | Miniature Faking | TiltShiftPhotography.net
Easy to do faux-tilt-shift tutorial in Photoshop... Might be neat to try... Tried it before one time, with similar steps, but it certainly did not come out as good.
tutorial  photography  photo  howto  photoshop  tips  design  photos  tiltshift  tutorials 
may 2009 by amdavidson
Flickr: Panda
photography  photo  web  design  flickr  funny  humor  panda  photos  weird  rainbow  wtf 
may 2009 by amdavidson
Maximize the Use of Hover
Cool uses of :hover to do some interesting and convenient things.
howto  webdev  web2.0  tips  web  css  design  webdesign  hover  inspiration 
may 2009 by amdavidson
The Mystery Of CSS Sprites: Techniques, Tools And Tutorials | CSS | Smashing Magazine
Cool tutorial for reducing the amount of requests in loading a site, could also reduce image sizes with clever compression....
tools  tutorial  web2.0  development  html  css  design  sprites  webdesign  graphic  tip 
april 2009 by amdavidson
Clearing Floats: The FnE Method // Ordered List // We Make The Web Beautifully Simple
A nice little tutorial on how to manage floats and overflow better... I often have a problem with this, but should look into Float Nearly Everything (FnE)
tutorial  howto  webdev  development  tips  html  css  design  browser  float  FloatNearlyEverything  FnE  ordered  list  orderedlist 
april 2009 by amdavidson
NTSC Video - Whassit all mean anyway?
awesome article on image compression and our ability to see blue.
photography  video  TV  links  design  vision  color  compression  image  science 
april 2009 by amdavidson
8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs • Blog Archive • AisleOne
notes of things to check to ensure good typography design for my sites.
tutorial  tips  reference  web  html  css  typography  design 
april 2009 by amdavidson

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