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“The Influence of Print Design”, Jason Santa Maria

This is a great presentation from the kickass designer, Jason Santa Maria, about how Print Design and storytelling has affected the way he designs for the web, and how it has shaped his career. If you’ve got 12 minutes to spare, it’s well worth a watch.

Design,Inspiration

Elliot Jay Stocks Quote

Impressing is not just done by good design; it’s done by brave design.

Quotes

Did you know: The US Govt. Stopped Twitter From Doing Maintenance

I enjoy the occasional random fact. I just heard about this one today and found it pretty interesting, so I thought I’d share. In June of 2009 when protests were occurring in Iran over their election controversy, Twitter was scheduled to do maintenance to their servers and as a result the site would be unavailable…Continue Reading

Random,Technology

jQuery More/Less Text

was recently asked by a client to add a functionality that only displays the first few lines of a block of content with a “More” link at the bottom which when clicked, would expand the content to show fully. This can easily be done with just a little bit of jQuery and CSS. If a…Continue Reading

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When Pixels Attack

Ever wonder what would happen if 8-bit characters from the days of the NES attacked New York? Yeah, me too. If you’re one of the many who have spent hours wondering the same thing, watch the video to see one possible scenario play out.

Inspiration

Mike Kus: Time-lapse Design Process

This is a pretty slick video of Mike Kus’s (@mikekus) design process for the presentation he gave at FOWD London 2009, “Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard”. The video is only 3 minutes long and it’s worth a watch. Each design has beautiful typography and color, and it’s definitely interesting to see everything come together…Continue Reading

Design,Inspiration,Typography

HTML5 and You

t seems the day when HTML5 and CSS3 become the standard is coming closer and closer.  This is especially true now with the iPad out in the wild and Apple’s push for HTML5 (they have an entire page dedicated to sites that are using HTML5’s video tag).  Although HTML5 isn’t supposed to be official until…Continue Reading

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