May 2008 Archives

Here's an easy and simple accordion example using MooTools script:

http://davidwalsh.name/simple-mootools-accordion

"One of the most important and hardest things to overcome when designing is to understand when the piece you are designing on is actually finished."

http://abduzeedo.com/i-know-design-finished-when

"Many designers have waxed admiringly about Barack Obama’s sophisticated typographical design scheme, particularly the consistent use in much of his graphic material of the typeface Gotham, designed by Tobias Frere-Jones. So I called Brian Collins, an expert on branding, to get his thoughts on what this “good design” means for the candidate."

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/to-the-letter-born/index.html

Amazing photographs by Cara Barer of warped and distressed books.

"After soaking it in the bathtub for a few hours, it had a new shape and purpose. Half Price Books became a regular haunt, and an abandoned house gave me a set of outdated reference books, complete with mold and neglect ... I am attempting to blur the line between objects, sculpture, and photography."

http://www.carabarer.com/gallery.php#

A list compiled from tutorialblog.org. 125 handy HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX snippets for your Web project.

http://www.paulspoerry.com/index.php/tag/netflix/

"As web designers, we have a unique and thorny task. How do we present the information we most want a visitor to see while simultaneously serving the visitor the content they came for? The two may not be the same, so an awareness of who our audience is as well as why our audience is there should be considered before a single design decision is made."

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/design_decisions_vs_audience_considerations/

Several techniques you can use to make better time estimates. I like the 'fudge ratio' concept ...

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/05/how-to-make-accurate-time-estimates/

Interesting tutorial series at Just Creative site:

"In this University project we had to learn how to design a movie poster. We had to consider the role of imaging in a graphic design context and the task involved the conceptualisation, design and production of an original cinematic film poster."

http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/05/13/how-to-design-a-movie-poster-with-an-example/

Another fine list of tutorial sites, blogs and all-things Web design. Take a look at:

http://webtecker.com/2008/05/13/guide-to-stay-on-top-of-web-design-trends/

"Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS."

http://devkick.com/lab/galleria/

East to use image gallery from www.monc.se -- creates thumbnail images on the fly:

http://monc.se/kitchen/80/lightweight-image-gallery-with-thumbnails

A review of the 2008 Presidential Candidates Web sites. Interesting:

http://dustinbrewer.com/presidential-candidate-web-design-review/

Here's another fine list of Design and Web oriented sites to check out. Great resources and blogs:

http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/02/25/99-graphic-design-resources/