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Reading PDFs on portables « PhilTeX
making phone-friendly PDFs (coz it's not HTML5 all the way down)
howto  design  pdf  latex  from delicious
january 2012 by howthebodyworks
HOME
Graphical/mathematical work environment FTW
design  australia  shopping  from delicious
october 2011 by howthebodyworks
Color Scheme Designer 3
it's that color scheme designing website i keep forgetting
design  html  CSS 
august 2011 by howthebodyworks
Dead Reckonings » The Art of Nomography I: Geometric Design
some neat maths visualisations and hidden connections, comlete with conformal maps, graphical solutions, good times
design  visualization  mathematics 
august 2011 by howthebodyworks
CSS Text Wrapper
non-rectangular div action.
CSS  html5  design 
august 2011 by howthebodyworks
NounProject
The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.
Here is our pledge to you:
FREE
The symbols on this site are and always will remain free. We believe symbols can not be effectively shared with the world if they are not free.
SIMPLE
Everyone likes simplicity. We want you to be able to come to our site and effortlessly find and obtain what you are looking for. Simple as that.
FUN
We think a language that can be understood by all cultures and people is a pretty amazing thing. We also think our symbols and the objects or ideas they represent are works of art worth celebrating.
HIGHEST QUALITY
We get excited about things like scale, proportion, and shape. We are committed to design and quality in everything we do.
icon  language  design 
august 2011 by howthebodyworks
Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone
If you're like most people, you feel like a baby when it comes to visual design. You sometimes have a vague sense of what you want, but can't articulate it or make it come about. All you can do is point and cry. This guide will help you communicate with conscious skill. It will show you how to create designs that are easy to understand and attractive.

Beyond giving you practical tools, I hope this guide inspires you. One of my favorite quotes is, "I open my eyes and I see paradise." What a great gift vision is! What an incredible way to connect to the world around us and to each other. My hope is that this guide will allow you to communicate with more creativity and more control – and that you'll want to learn more.
design  HowTo  possumpalace 
june 2011 by howthebodyworks
n+1: What Was the Hipster? Animation
all cultural panels should be replaced by slideshow animations. then i would go to conferences.
dear_me  design  fashion  urban  culture  animation  cartoon 
december 2010 by howthebodyworks
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web
Cristoph Niemann (of 100% evil fame) designed this notoriously outsourced google edu-book, which is part of their plan to wipe out ie 6 using patronisingness
design  html5  ebook  http  browser  howto 
november 2010 by howthebodyworks
The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution › The Goat Rodeo Complex/Difficult situation scale
dont' talk about "wicked problems", talk about "goat rodeos":
The Goat Rodeo, the Great Goat Rodeo, the Traveling Goat Rodeo etc. all capture this hard-to-define quality of utter fuckedness which is the essential instinctive reaction to the 100% genuine article situation in which four factors combine to produce the kind of insoluble nasty, the black tar at the bottom of the test tube of life, the problem.

The situation has multiple actors
The actors have incentives to compete with each other
Some of the actors are not rational, typically by virtue of failing to grasp the situation
Finding a solution may piss off larger actors from outside the current situation, disincentivizing success
These situations are goat rodeos. There are other situations which the term may well perfectly apply to, but these situations, for sure, are goat rodeos.
crisis  problem  futures  policy  design  technology  via:mtchl 
october 2010 by howthebodyworks
A List Apart: Articles: Put Your Content in my Pocket, Part II
actual nitty gritty of CSS styles that work for mobile webkit, not just the media selector theory
portable  css  mobile  design  webkit 
september 2010 by howthebodyworks
Ben Millen » iPhone Deconstruction
lovely visualisation of the inputs to that classic icon of consumerism, the iphone
visualization  design  hardware  lca 
august 2010 by howthebodyworks
Rujak
"For a better Jakarta. everyone's invited"
indonesia  arch  urban  design  sustainability 
july 2010 by howthebodyworks
Simon Tatham - Music: The Geeking
A music font designer talks about the virtues of choosing mathematical contrains upon his design - in particular the choice to constrain his curves to involutes of circles. Also, free python font generation code and a nice font.
design  music  composition  font  python  geometry  typography  via:simonw 
may 2010 by howthebodyworks
Top Page
the top page of the whole internet
design 
april 2010 by howthebodyworks
DESIGNER NOTES » Blog Archive » “Fear and Loathing in Farmville”
the emerging games market as entrapment for the human psyche rather than art
game  mind  economics  design  socialmedia 
march 2010 by howthebodyworks
Placehold.it - Quick and simple image placeholders
need a bland image with given pixel dimensions instantly? yeah, me too.
villains  design  mockup 
march 2010 by howthebodyworks
Anarchists in Berlin turn anger on new 'bourgeoisie' | World news | The Observer
Stragegies against gentrification - /An "anti-schicki micki" website, esregnetkaviar.de (it's raining caviar), offers the following tips to make a neighbourhood unattractive for newcomers: "Don't repair broken windows; put foreign names on the doorbell, and install satellite dishes."'
urban  germany  capitalism  poverty  design 
march 2010 by howthebodyworks
Linefeed
a tasty design blog with an oz bent
design  australia  urban  history 
march 2010 by howthebodyworks
Prezi - The zooming presentation editor
interesting. presentations without slides - have a giant static image and drill down to the good bits.
design  visualization  editor  presentation 
february 2010 by howthebodyworks
Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game
an addictive-looking weird invention game, with an iphone version
game  design  iphone  simulation  physics 
february 2010 by howthebodyworks
Every day the same dream - molleindustria
weird wage slave game with nice little soundtrack
flash  game  design  animation 
february 2010 by howthebodyworks
stfj 3.0
Zach Gage makes pretty things out of pieces and bits
book  printing  iphone  c++  synth  newmedia  design  openframeworks 
january 2010 by howthebodyworks
How to Make a US County Thematic Map Using Free Tools | FlowingData
great SVG display hacks, and a couple of handy tools to facilitate 'em
mapping  design  gis  svg  visualization  python 
november 2009 by howthebodyworks
Mockingbird
in-browser cappucino-based UI prototyping
design  ui  cappuccino  netcultures 
november 2009 by howthebodyworks
Proxy
"Proxy develops and extends sophisticated architectural tools to conceive of design as a search. Designing "options" in parallel is nothing new, but by innovating flexible tools for design, we are able to massively expand the information being considered and generated. This enriches the design process and provides valuable feedback and contingency. With computation, we consider an incredible number of variations and options. We actively search through a space of possibilities to find unique solutions."
design  technology  architecture  3d  modeling  search  simulation 
october 2009 by howthebodyworks
EuroPLoP 2010 > Home
sounds li the paper submission process is itself agile, which is interesting
design  standards  conference  agile  patterns  europe 
october 2009 by howthebodyworks
Lisp: <P> Good News <P> Bad News <P> How to Win Big
The "original" worse is better post? By Lisps's richard Gabriel, which is not what I thought.
list  parsimony  design  compsci 
october 2009 by howthebodyworks
A (re)design for life - the new environmentguardian.co.uk front page - currybetdotnet - 7 October, 2009
really interesting dive into a magazine-style front page redesign with heavy information architecture chops.
design  cpod  ui 
october 2009 by howthebodyworks
Object-Oriented CSS: What, How, and Why - Nettuts
minimising markup and maximising re-use. CSS is still lame, though.
css  oop  design 
october 2009 by howthebodyworks
The Finders Keepers
the diy crafty design markets virus spreads
australia  diy  design  sydney  craft  shopping 
september 2009 by howthebodyworks
Dada Visualization I on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"All these pieces are a pun on the new craze for data visualization. The goals of data visualization as I understand them are to make complicated issues more understandable, to make obscured connections visible and to reveal hidden patterns in the data. After all these tasks have been solved ideally the result should be aesthetically pleasing as well.

But when I look around what is being done in data visualization today I have the suspicion that in many cases the design is more important than the actual information and that the use of data is more an excuse to justify the use of aesthetics."
netcultures  visualization  design  dear_me  via:serial_consign 
september 2009 by howthebodyworks
crunchy - Project Hosting on Google Code
presentation engine with integrated python interpreter. Wonder if it works?
design  presentation  python  cli  html  opensource 
september 2009 by howthebodyworks
VC blog » Blog Archive » Information Visualization Manifesto
"ver the past few months I’ve been talking with many people passionate about Information Visualization who share a sense of saturation over a growing number of frivolous projects. The criticism is slightly different from person to person, but it usually goes along these lines: 'It’s just visualization for the sake of visualization', 'It’s just eye-candy', 'They all look the same'."
visualization  design  netcultures  philosophy  theory  aesthetics 
september 2009 by howthebodyworks
Storni
"I will discuss several cases in order to explore how technological artifacts engage and are engaged in larger sociotechnical arrangements. I will show how they inscribe a certain relationship between users and designers and a certain level of engagement. At the same time, I intend to show how these relationship and levels of engagement are not intrinsic characters of artifacts per se but rather they are effects that are produced and reproduced within socio-technical assemblages. In this sense, different artifacts entangled within different socio-technical assemblages afford different levels of engagement and different instances of a user/designer relationship. The contribution of this work is to show that we are witnessing the emergence of an ambivalence of engaging technology, as some recent innovative ICT artifacts seems to be better understood as open-ended processes rather that fixed products ... with important consequences for our understanding of the user/designer relationship."
netcultures  design  ui  technology  innovation  systems 
september 2009 by howthebodyworks
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
Backblaze has release the designs for their ridiculously cheap absurdly massive disk storage doohickeys.
design  opensource  diy  server  hardware 
september 2009 by howthebodyworks
interactions magazine
" A systems analysis goes beyond the design of individual screens or actions. It considers the entire experience from start to finish: thought through action through reflection. To make this a whole, seamless, coherent experience requires considering each action, each system response, each message - whether verbal or visual, silent or audible, visceral or behavioral, haptic or happenstance - all as part of the whole. Make sure that each message is consistent with the others in tone, voice, locus, and message. All steps must be readily accommodated, with the system always anticipating and ready for whichever choice the person makes. This is what it means to be a system: to think of everything."
design  systems  innovation  netcultures  ui 
september 2009 by howthebodyworks
Using Compass and Sass for CSS in your Next Project - Nettuts+
transform well-known CSS nightmares into clean and pretty ones.
howto  design  css  ruby  parsimony 
september 2009 by howthebodyworks
Where the Puck is Going to Be « UCOSP
'One of the most interesting parts of this course for me is watching students decide what projects to work on. When answering their questions, I frequently find myself quoting something that Wayne Gretzky once said when asked what made him such a great player: “A good hockey player goes where the puck is. A great hockey player goes where the puck is going to be.” Five years ago, when Napster was making headlines, students typically wanted to write peer-to-peer filesharing tools; today, many of them want to do Ruby on Rails, social networking, or iPhone development.
But that’s where the puck is, not where it’s going to be. The social network market has already matured and is rapidly consolidating—just look at Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed. Rails is cool, and will probably still be as widely used ten years from now as PHP is today... but both are likely to be awfully crowded job markets in 2-3 years.'
netcultures  futures  design  technology 
august 2009 by howthebodyworks
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect
How the world works, via Nokia's corporate anthrolpologist
design  ideas  technology  photography  mind 
august 2009 by howthebodyworks
Connecting Distant Dots
excellent image of some the world's various issues and their relatedness - brings a nice bonus semantic dimension to the old influence diagram
design  visualization  diagram  sustainability  schmooze  crisis 
august 2009 by howthebodyworks
DD_belatedPNG: Medicine for your IE6/PNG headache!
Wow- nice one. a very easy, and easily tileable png usage hack for ie6.
ie6  ie  standards  vml  png  design  browser  css 
august 2009 by howthebodyworks
Wiser Earth
Paul Hawken's social network for sustainability. could be better integrated with the other social networks, but looks nice enough
environment  design  sustainability 
august 2009 by howthebodyworks
Shopify — Hosted e-commerce with style, in less than 2 minutes
sell stuff online; a hosted service with iphone apps and all that hooha.
shopping  hosted  rails  ruby  design  cms 
july 2009 by howthebodyworks
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