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Adobe packs it all in Rome

Here’s an interesting sneak peek of Adobe’s project called “Rome”, shown at the MAX 2009 conference. It’s an application written in ActionScript that combines the features of Photoshop, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and lets you work with different content types. It runs on Air, meaning it’s cross-platform and even works inside the browser.
I certainly like the [...]

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Type designers “Coming Together” for Haiti; hopefully Chile too

Coming Together is a font consisting entirely of different ampersands designed created by 400 artists and designers to help the Haiti earthquake victims. It’s available for $20 from leading font distributors and all proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders.

The “Coming Together” font contains over 400 glyphs and is supplied as a single, cross-platform OpenType font. [...]

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Designers, do you use someone else’s design on your sites?

No, this is not about plagiarism.
Imagine my surprise when Jeffrey Zeldman blogged about a list of 60 WordPress themes. A few minutes before that, I found Douglas Bowman bookmarking another list, also from Smashing Magazine. It’s like my feed reader was trying to tell me something: yes, a list article can bring an interesting discussion [...]

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This week in web design & development podcasts

Or as a like to call it: podcasts that have caught my eye in the past week or so. And they differ in several ways, so there’s sure to be something for everybody. Take your pick:
The Wayward Irregular

Confession: It took me a while to realize that this podcast is actually the previously-named You Suck at [...]

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Design & development advent calendars for the holidays!

Haven’t gotten into the holiday spirit quite yet? Perhaps these design and development focused advent calendars will do the trick. Come to think of it, it should do even more than that; you get a treat every single day for 24 days straight. Sounds even better than Christmas day? Almost.
24 ways

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Aviary Screen Capture: dead simple tools win people over

What’s the hottest thing on the Web right now? Twitter, and a host of other dead-simple, single serving websites. If you plan on making a new web app, make it as simple as possible, if not simpler. Take Aviary’s Screen Capture service.

Just a short background: Aviary is a suite of web-based graphics applications, all [...]

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No-nonsense web design references to bookmark

I know rattling off websites in blog posts are a dime a dozen these days and may not be your cup of tea. But you might want to read and bookmark these sites—you’ll definitely keep coming back to them.
It’s a very short list, so you won’t tire easily reading this, and the sites are [...]

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Donate to Australian bushfire victims by buying SitePoint eBooks

Here’s a great deal you don’t see everyday: SitePoint is letting you purchase 5 e-books for the price of 1 (that’s $29.95) and one hundred percent of the proceeds will be donated to the victims of the bushfires in Australia.

So we’re taking one day, working around the clock to plan, package, and execute our best [...]

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Design tip: use extraordinary imagery

Drawn.ca has posted 2 interesting sources of atypical imagery which, I realized, can be great design inspiration:
First, Dogfoose uses close-up images of produce in his illustrations. The sample below uses broccoli as treetops for a kids magazine illustration:

What an amusing way to channel the miniature look (achieved through tilt-shift photography) for infographics purposes! Is this [...]

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Unmatched Style’s video podcast: the next step for inspiration galleries?

Unmatched Style, which is one of the better CSS galleries out there, has posted its first video podcast discussing several notable websites featured in their showcase within 10 minutes. You can watch the episode below:
Unmatchedstyle.com Video Podcast #1 from Gene Crawford on Vimeo.
Let’s see what is happening here. The video podcast is a good solution [...]