Cf. Doug Bowman at Google

How do we handle it? With fake fonts and a Sharpie

‘We are vaguely employed and have Bluetooth devices attached to our heads. We need more places with a pleasant midcentury aesthetic where we can cram for exams and have appointments with dicey accountants, hideously polite catch-ups with exes, and meetings with Internet dates and micro-business clients. We need more and more “third locations”–spaces between work and home–where we can read magazines and stare at our laptops, pretending we are getting things done in our lives because we aren’t sitting at home doing the same thing’

‘A Strong, Action-Driven Stance to Destroy Design Contests and Crowdsourcing. Merely skitching behind the beat-up pickup truck that is NOSPEC... isn't going to cut it from AIGA anymore. Neither is talk. Action is required on behalf of all designers to protect our craft and business model from idiots, sycophants, and villains. As the number-one crisis we face down out here in the trenches, I expect an organization whose stated goal is the promotion of good design to be out front with sword and shield in hand’

‘I saw some truly amazing design during my time in Redmond, sadly none of it ever shipped’

Nicely-designed accessible products (allegedly)

Liza Daly’s new site for experimental CSS styling of E-books

Shock hazard? Probably not

Ask Ronald Shakespear

‘[O]n average, these still-popular design bloggers have written about 75% less this year than they did in 2004’

Nice effort at a designy retail store in standards

Blog (short for ‘Web log’) about avoiding minimalism in design and embracing the baroque and decorative

Just what it says

Flat-out listing of design and usability faults in the Pontiac Solstice

Stationery with blue lines for writing words *and* thin graph paper for drawing

Stunning contest-winning artwork for Swiss francs

With an image containing alt="Alt Tag"

The proportion, BTW, is 1:(1+√5)/2

Quark

“A Weblog about details in design” (12 errors shy of validating)