Dead Pixels

UI that looked sexy in Photoshop almost always looks overdesigned when we try it for real in the browser. Here’s a hypothesis. Simple and useful designs just don’t seem good enough when they are dead pixels. They need to be brought to life before they can be …

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San Francisco Gripes

A list of complaints about San Francisco from Alex Payne that I happen to vehemently agree with:

An obscenely high cost of living for comparatively poor real estate and social services.
Limited and mediocre cultural institutions. It’s easy to exhaust museums, …

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The One True Way

Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again.
via Derek Powazek

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Content Strategy for the Web

I came across this wonderful book while browsing at Elliott Bay Books the other day. It is a refreshingly quick read with absolutely no filler. Every page is packed with actionable bits that help you understand how to form (or reform) the most critical, yet often …

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Consider Processing New Email No More Often Than You Urinate

Again, depending on your blood sugar and candy bar intake.

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I Don’t Believe It!

I don’t believe it! via Team Genser

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Against Pollution by the Mountain Goats

“Decorative grating on my window /

Gets a little rustier every year /

I don’t know how the metal gets rusty /

When it never rains here”

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Get Your Comments On

For both of you who may care, I’ve cracked open the gate on my walled garden here at polaricecap.net and have installed a commenting system. You don’t have to register, log-in or do a special dance to leave a comment (although special dances are always appreciated). …

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Jose Gonzalez – ‘Teardrop’

Jose Gonzalez – ‘Teardrop’ from Imperial Recordings on Vimeo.

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Mister Stevenson’s Résumé

Since I’ve decided to do some work through a design agency, I’ve been faced with the task of creating a résumé for the first time in several years. After loading up Pages and starting to fill in a standard résumé template, I realized I could do better.
I …

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Resources Aplenty

Nice growing collection of free resources made available by designers for use by other designers. Some of the early highlights include these icons, this helpful Twitter background template and these iPhone toolbar icons.
And while we’re on the topic of free …

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Wildcat

Taken with my iPhone with an infrared filter provided by the excellent Camera Bag.

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My Friend, to Live with You Alone

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David Byrne’s Perfect City

But there’s a certain attractiveness to New Orleans, Mexico City or Naples—where you get the sense that though some order exists, it’s an order of a fluid and flexible nature… A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.
via WSJ.com

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Dollar Redesign

via Richard Smith

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Haunted by – Saeta

Haunted By – Saeta

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Featured on Design Meltdown

Speaking of my humble little business card website, it was recently featured on Design Meltdown in the Business Card chapter.

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Hmm…

I received emails this morning from a couple folks alerting me to a rip-off total scraping of my personal switchboard site published here . It’s weird seeing the shell of a design you that made with someone else’s content rigged inside of it.
I actually wouldn’t …

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Vintage Sweetness

Gorgeous set of photos from Sloan Photographers, via Once Wed

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Pappy O’Daniel

“I’m not here to make a record, you dumb crackah!”

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