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Make your new readers feel at home
via David Airey :: Graphic and Logo Designer by David Airey on May 05, 2008
When you’ve been publishing blog articles for a while, it can be very easy to forget that many visitors to your website are arriving for the first time. They may not be familiar with your site navigation, and how to make the most of the time spent on your blog.That’s why it’s a good idea to offer signposts every now and again, to aid deeper navigation. It’s also a good idea to feature...
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Launch: Band Website Template
via CSS-Tricks by Chris Coyier on May 08, 2008
I’ve been working on this joint project for quite a while now, and it’s finally ready. Introducing the Band Website Template! Brought to you by yours truly and David Walsh. What is the Band Website Template?The Band Website Template is a downloadable package with everything you need to put up a website for a band. Just unzip and upload the files, create a database on your server, run the...
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Marks of Excellence by Per Mollerup
via David Airey :: Graphic and Logo Designer by David Airey on May 09, 2008
If there’s one logo design book I’d recommend above all others, I’m hard pressed to name a better candidate than Marks of Excellence: the history and taxonomy of trademarks, by Per Mollerup. Here’s a glimpse of what to expect inside.From the blurb:This book presents a thorough exploration of the trademark: its history, development, style, classification and relevance in today’s world. A...
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Poll Results: What Javascript Library Do You Use?
via CSS-Tricks by Chris Coyier on May 10, 2008
…and the jQ’s have it! The the time of this writing over 1500 people have responded to our latest poll “What Javascript Library Do You Use?” making it our biggest poll yet. jQuery is the run-away victor with over 50% of the votes. What does this mean? Just that the beautiful and intelligent readers of CSS-Tricks have a tendency to lean toward jQuery. However, since this site is largely...
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China Design Now
via CR Blog by Kezia on May 11, 2008
Lam Hung’s Peace of Mind poster for a Zen Buddhist centre, Hong Kong, 2001The V&A’s current flagship exhibition has a very clear, chronological layout, which is a little surprising considering its slightly clumsy title. The show itself begins in Shenzhen – the site of the first McDonald’s in China – and, perhaps more significantly, the birthplace of contemporary Chinese graphic design....
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Sponsored Feature: Flipping Book
via CSS-Tricks by Chris Coyier on May 12, 2008
Flash can do some amazing stuff. Stuff that can leave even the handiest CSS and Javascript developer drooling with envy. We then sulk back to our caves because, alas, Flash is not the development path we have chosen. This is a foreign world who’s amazing feats are out-of-grasp lest we start learning a whole new development environment from scratch.One of those drool-inducing Flash feats is...
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A Century of Olympic Posters
via CR Blog by Eliza on May 13, 2008
Mexico 68 poster by Lance Wyman, with artistic direction from Eduardo Terrazas and Pedro Ramirez Vázquez, © courtesy of the artist/IOC/V&ADespite the protests, Olympic fever is slowly starting to build, and the exhibitions are beginning. This weekend, at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London, a show looking at 100 years of Olympic posters will open which will run (no pun intended…) over the...
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The Evolution of Propaganda Design: US Retro Posters
via Crestock Stock Photos Design and Photography Blog by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
With the popularity of my previous blog post on Soviet propaganda posters, I've decided to follow up with an even larger collection of American propaganda posters from roughly the same period, covering the two world wars as well as the period of the Great Depression in-between.
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Martini glass design comp: vote for your favorite
via core77.com's design blog by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Thursday morning's only a tad too early to be thinking about cocktails, so head on over to Bombay Sapphire's Designer Glass Competition and vote for your favorite submitted design. If only we got a free martini for every vote cast....The competition finals will be held in September in London; we'll keep you posted....
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Momento Monkeyzen: Guitarra LEGO
via ALT1040 by Eduardo Arcos on May 15, 2008
Objeto de deseo de más de un geek (no, no es un fake), es una guitarra que funciona hecha con piezas negras de LEGO, todos los elementos y mecanismos para que funcione, en la foto únicamente hacen falta las cuerdas. Me pregunto qué tal funcionará.Enlace: Lego Guitar Gallery | Vía: AlbotasComparte esta anotación
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