Why can’t we just use vector-based icons in our application? This question, in a variety of reinterpretations, keeps on resurfacing in various forums, blogs and articles.

The Lost Type Co-op is a collaboration between Tyler Galpin and Riley Cran. It was founded with the intention of providing unique and quality fonts based on a pay-what-you-want model. All designers get 100% of the donations their font receives.

Designers and developers have been burned before by not knowing what the Content is, how long it is, what style it is and when the hell it’s actually going to be delivered, in internet eons past. Warily, they ask clients for it. But clients don’t know what to make, or what is good, because no one taught them this in business school. Designers struggle to describe what they need and when, so the conversation gets put off until it’s almost too late, and then everyone is relieved that they can take the cop-out of putting up a blog and maybe some product descriptions from the brochure.

letterheady
–adjective
1. overcome by a strong emotion due to a letterhead design.

Color Oracle is a colorblindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. It takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.

Color Oracle applies a full screen color filter to art you are designing – independently of the software in use. Eight percent of all males are affected by color vision impairment – make sure that your graphical work is readable by the widest possible audience.

Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to typographer's solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it. Good luck!

Building a custom "sustainable" house, if you call $1.1 million sustainable living.

It's Lonely in the Modern World

Research proves attractive things work better. How we think cannot be separated from how we feel. The next time a boss, client, or co-worker scoffs at the notion that beauty is an important aspect of interface design, point their peepers here.

I’ve read the Bible on and off my whole life, but sometimes it can be difficult for me want to read it. You gotta admit, it can be weird...

We make easy to use, impeccably crafted iPhone, iPad and Mac apps.

UI development is the hard part. And it’s not the last step, it’s the first step. In my estimation, the difference between:

* software that performs function X; and
* software that performs function X, with an intuitive well-designed user interface

isn’t just a little bit of extra work. It’s not even twice the work. It’s an entire order of magnitude more work. Developing software with a good UI requires both aptitude and a lot of hard work.

In order to get my stuff onto an iPad or iPhone, however, I must receive explicit approval by a human being working for Apple after this human being has manually reviewed my work, derived my intentions for the product, and made a value judgement on what my creation brings to the device. As long as that process exists, there shall be no arguments that the iPhone or iPad are more open than just about anything we’ve ever seen before… including Flash. To claim that because Apple is pushing open standards like HTML5 (really for their own benefit) means they are somehow more open than Adobe is folly.
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When the biggest problem in personal technology is that the leading company is getting a little too exceptional, it’s a good problem to have.

he Staffordshire Hoard is an unparalleled treasure find dating from Anglo-Saxon times. Both the quality and quantity of this unique treasure are remarkable. The story of how it came to be left in the Staffordshire soil is likely to be more remarkable still.

The Hoard was first discovered in July 2009. The find is likely to spark decades of debate among archaeologists, historians and enthusiasts.

for intentional organization

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Laura Brunow Miner, former editor of JPG Magazine, loves photography.

Create and customize premium Business Cards, MiniCards and Postcards with MOO’s unique variable print technology – Printfinity. Designed online. Printed in Providence, RI, USA. Shipped Globally.

portfolio of designer-slash-photographer steph goralnick

The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere. To use a Daily Drop Cap on your site or blog, follow the instructions in each post and read about the usage limitations. Enjoy!

A sans-serif font I actually like.

I use design to solve problems & communicate.

Function weFunction.com is a fresh faced Web Development company based in Coventry in the West Midlands. We believe in mixing great design with great functionality to achieve the full potential of any project. We are currently running a blog while we are recruiting and finding clients, we'll be posting tips, tutorials, resources and other design related content to keep you busy & informed.

We started in 2006 with a simple idea - make awesome websites! Today we operate Marketplaces, Communities, Blogs & Educational Sites. Our sites reach hundreds of thousands of visitors everyday and are well loved around the world.