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I find it very intriguing that Microsoft chose to redesign its new Windows Phone 7 Series interface this way:
The design and layout of 7 Series’ UI (internally called Metro) is really quite original, utilizing what one of the designers (Albert Shum, formerly of Nike) calls an “authentically digital” and “chromeless” experience. What does that mean? [...]
So I was reading Elliot Jay Stocks’s post on the Apple tablet and noticed all the fancy gravatars his commenters had (maybe because they were not as small as the ones in the blogs I frequent). One in particularl that caught my eye was Jeremy Swinnen’s and made me wonder if, like Sam Wilson’s, it [...]
I’ll get straight to my answer: very.
More specifically, I’m quite excited about what this league is doing for a branch of typography which seems almost mythical. We know about paid fonts and free fonts, but what’s buzzing big right now is the use of fonts on the web with the emergence of @font-face embedding, [...]
When we’re not spending time debating on the right way to code websites—CSS, tables, and all—we’re probably stressing over the details that go into the design process itself.
It’s never a one size fits all solution when we’re faced with these issues, but I feel like we’re in this exciting transition in the web design industry [...]
There’s some hullaballoo over this insanely long and diversely designed article on the death of the blog post. Jason Santa Maria, one of the first to talk about this, calls it “art direction in web design”. Smashing Magazine calls it the “blogazine” trend.
And while many people, like me, are thankful this discussion has reached mainstream [...]
Meet Laika, a dynamic font that throws out typographical conventions out the window. Serif, sans serif, bold, italic, old style, or new—Laika can be anything you want it to be. Check out the video below or play with it yourself!
LAIKA from Michael Flückiger on Vimeo.
There is such a rigid and finite nature to typography that [...]
Disclosure: This is my second review of this service, and once again I was given a free “sample” job for review purposes. This is a completely objective review of the service I received.
In the past year or so, there has been a marked increase in the number of “design to code conversion” services available. The [...]
Still on the subject of the dark side of the web: I found a contest for the ugliest website held last June. The winner, which turned out to be mytastynuts.com, won a free redesign package worth $1800. Now this could have been a little more buzzworthy if the contest and company site itself looked like [...]
W3 Markup Review
These days, it can really be a huge challenge to find a suitable company that can produce great codes for your kind of website or blog. There’s one company, though, that you can turn to if you’re in search of a professional code production service for the creation of a good-looking website capable [...]
After the wildly successful first run, I’m delighted that Coudal is gearing up for another season of Layer Tennis, which are live creative matches using Creative Suite software. Heard of Photoshop tennis? It’s a more riveting version of that, since matches will use more than just PSD layers and will play with motion and sound!
The [...]
