Give me beautiful landscape photography, cropped in a circle, any day. A nice series by Marco Suarez.

Shower is a HTML/CSS presentation tenmplate for use in modern browsers.

Code available on Github.

Ember is the best way to share your design inspiration with the world - from webpages to screenshots, design to illustration, Ember is built for creatives looking to build an online design scrapbook.

Once again, The Times Magazine looks back on the past year from our favored perch: ideas. Like a magpie building its nest, we have hunted eclectically, though not without discrimination, for noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity, which, when collected and woven together, form a sort of cognitive shelter, in which the curious mind can incubate, hatch and feather. Unlike birds, we can also alphabetize. And so we hereby present, from A to Z, the most clever, important, silly and just plain weird innovations we carried back from all corners of the thinking world. To offer a nonalphabetical option for navigating the entries, this year we have attached tags to each item indicating subject matter. We hope you enjoy.

"Functional visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms. They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans." Matt Woolman Digital Information Graphics Goal VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.

I recently attended an excellent Made by Many event hosted at BBH which featured a re-presentation by Manuel Lima of his 2009 TED talk on data visualisation. Manuel is the curator of visualcomplexity.com and is an eloquent, modest, charming pioneer in this fascinating field. As a novice myself, I could not help wondering why we are all so immediately and instinctively attracted to the best of data visualisation.To start with, I’m sure there is some fundamental truth that for most of us data become meaningful only when we can see scale, change, patterns and relationships. Seeing is understanding.

The Elders are an independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by Nelson Mandela, who offer their collective influence and experience to support peace building, help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity.

We don't need sweeter carrots and sharper sticks, Dan says. We need a whole new approach, an approach that puts more stock in intrinsic motivation. Dan identifies three elements that comprise a new way of thinking about management: Autonomy: The urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: The desire to get better at something that matters. Purpose: The yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. Dan_pink Traditional ideas about management are great, Dan says, "if you want compliance; but for engagement, self-direction works best."

Unless you’re enrolled at a top university or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet, and our list of 100 incredible lectures, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world.

Speakers at previous PINC's were

This is a self-initiated project based on the scenario – If the world were a village of 100 people. There are a few different versions of this text in circulation about the world’s statistics. I found the data very striking and neatly summarises the world that we live in. So I used information graphics to re-tell the story in another creative way. I designed a set of 20 posters, which contain most of the information. I used simple vector graphics that related to a statistic in order to present the information in the simplest and most accessible way.

While I might use some different language today, this technique I posted in 2004 (inspired by Alexander) is still a major help when I’m designing a UI with many elements to juggle. The reason I come back to it is that it helps me design with language first instead of empty templates. Too often a design starts top-down with empty content areas (maybe a main column and a sidebar) and then we fill those boxes in until its “done.” Filling in the boxes would work fine, except having a bunch of stuff on the page doesn’t mean we served the design goals.

Great use of the flickr photostream (via @gvenk via gizmodo.com)

Rated Five Stars at Amazon.com since the day it was published, “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com

This website is part of the Master's thesis The Form of Facts and Figures, developed by Christian Behrens in the Interface Design program at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. Its goal is the development of a design pattern taxonomy for the field of data visualization and information design.

In the late 1800s, the Brooklyn Bridge was built with no power tools, no heavy machinery, and only a basic, evolving understanding of how to make steel. It’s not these facts, but the stories surrounding the facts that inspire me when I take a good, long stare at a suspension bridge. But first…

Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules - but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules.

Mooie schaduw foto's

Unforgettable Wilderness Photography

A camera does not work like an eye; memory does not work like film. There is a fine line between a photo that is quite nice and one that is quite breathtaking. At some undefined point, a photo can cross the Rubicon and be forever a piece of beautiful art. That hinterland between a regular photo and evocative art is a moving target from person to person and taste to taste. However, that zone of wonderment can be narrowed a bit once you start to consider about the way the brain stores memories and emotions.

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

In this post you’ll find Photos, Videos, Source Code, CAD files and Schematics for the recently completed Purple Pedals project, which saw us make 20 solar-powered, geotagging, photo-taking, flickr-uploading bikes to be ridden in various cities all over the world.

Better Place is working to build an electric car network, using technology available today. Our goals? Sustainable transportation,globa energy independence and freedom from oil.

Great website design.

What is the book about? A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one.

“De auto is de grootste oplossing van de klimaatverandering, niet het probleem” en “For most people denial is a river in Africa“. Twee curieuze uitspraken van een van de voormalig topmensen van softwarebedrijf SAP, Shai Agassi. Agassi houdt zich tegenwoordig bezig met de/een oplossing van het klimaatprobleem met zijn nieuwe bedrijf Better Place.

This is the new version of Arthemia. I’ve done some changes in the post list in the front page, solve some CSS problem, added the thumbnail feature for post list in front page, archive, and search page, modify the comment list style, and added the WP-PageNavi plugin support. Pages and sub-pages in the top navigation bar are now shown automatically.

Here's the biggest problem: no one yet has any idea what a climate-neutral city would look like or how it would operate. We can't build what we can't imagine, so one of the first orders of business is vision: visions of various ways in which cities could slash their emissions while increasing their prosperity and quality of life.

Am so enthralled with the photographic work of Czech artist Miroslav Tichy, who made cameras out of cardboard tubes, thread spools, rubber bands, and other similar things, and then photographed public scenes in his small hometown. He developed the negatives in a bucket at night, because he didn't have a darkroom. Later, he said that the defects and ugliness were where the true art happened.

One of the best things any movie, book, or music can do is permanently change you. Tim Ferriss’ #1 bestselling book, The 4-Hour Workweek, changed my life.

J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Alice in Wonderland is one of my all-time favourite fairytales. From the original Lewis Carroll illustrations to those from the Walt Disney animated film, its imagery cradled my childhood.... I have always wanted to do an Alice in Wonderland inspired pho

The Work of Jonathan Harris

Onexposure is an artsproject and a photo community with a difference. Take the most talented photobloggers of the web and other famous photographers as well as many serious amateurs, select their best work and put it all in one place - there you have Onex

Breakthrough ideas are around the corner, says the Google co-founder. But most of us are failing to take a chance on them.

If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. Starting with the Second World War a whole series of things happened--ri

CDs are fine things for listening to and archiving, but they're bulky. Think of all the shelf space you could free up if that digital music resided on one little hard drive rather than hundreds of boxed-up plastic discs. It's a commitment, but putting all

Parallax scrolling is a psuedo-3D effect often used in side scrolling games to create depth. In this article Clearleft lead designer Paul Annett explains how he used the effect to great success on their newly launched Silverback site.

Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.

This is the demo of the Peacock Tail Tumblr theme, by Richard Dunlop-Walters.

After a brief period of unstyledness, we’re back with a realign and overhaul of simplebits.com. Aesthetically, it’s not much of a departure from the previous design — but under the hood is new markup, new stylesheets and a strict grid layout based o

The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it.

Any picture can speak 1,000 words, but only a select few say something poignant enough to galvanize an entire society. The following photographs screamed so loudly that the entire world stopped to take notice.

And hello, 2008! We’re planning to greet it with some kinder, gentler resolutions, and you can bet they won’t involve the kitchen, the remote, or running shoes. But they will involve a shutter. We’ve come up with 19 photo-related New Year’s resol

One of several user-interface ideas and suggestions for working with microformats.

At the end of every interview someone inevitably asks “Where do you see 37signals in five years? Ten years? 20 years?” My answer remains the same: “Still in business. Beyond that I have no idea.”

As the only member of his clan, Jeffrey Lee controls the fate of Koongarra. But Jeffrey Lee is not interested in the soaring price of uranium, which could make him one of the world's richest men.

Many people don’t feel motivated at work, and there’s a very simple explanation for this: The motivational techniques used by most managers don’t work.

Photo: mysterious man walking

"[.] if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude."

"Ik voorspel dat er de komende tijd nieuwe hybride vormen gaan ontstaan tussen geen baan, een “half” bedrijf, en nieuwe vormen, waarbij het generen van meerdere inkomstenstromen de kern van de activiteiten gaan vormen van mensen. Ontplooing, het verke

"I’m trying to think of a way to summarize the last day of SXSW07 Interactive. The phrase that comes to mind that it was a day of rededication."

The most underrated benefit of the face-to-face effect of conferences is INSPIRATION."

Some great (flash) photography photos.