Bagatelle: design links

le 21, avril 2008

The Making of Bjork’s 3-D ‘Wanderlust’ Video
It’s just amazing that there is actually not a lot of CGI in the video - puppets, baby!

le 22, février 2008

Winners of the What is Graphic design poster competition | Veerle’s blog
There’s some really lovely work here (and wow, great prizes!)

le 18, février 2008

1999: My Career Begins With an Epiphany
Great explanation on design education and why design is important.

le 24, janvier 2008

Edward Tufte on Interface design and the iPhone
Interesting that he does his demo using a jailbroken iPhone.

le 15, décembre 2007

Seeking landmark poster design
Armin Vit asks for suggestions for their upcoming book.

le 14, décembre 2007

Trajan is the Movie Font
“Everywhere I look, it’s Trajan, Trajan, Trajan.”

le 4, août 2007

Syncotype your baselines
Handy bookmarklet to help make aligning text and images easier

le 3, juillet 2007

The iPhone User Experience: A First Touch
Renown designer Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini’s posits on the current nerdlore of choice.

le 21, juin 2007

Sketching User Experiences
Bill Buxton’s new book, subtitled “Getting the Design Right and the Right Design” — looks interesting

le 14, juin 2007

Stefan Sagmeister on design and happiness
Saved for when I actually have time to fritter away on such nonsense.

le 30, mai 2007

Microsoft Surface
Very cool-looking multi-touch table from Microsoft, not due out until “Winter 2007”.

le 23, mai 2007

A skyscraper with a single corridor
Intriguing skyscraper design idea.

le 17, mai 2007

the Uncanny Valley of user interface design
An interesting read.

le 15, mai 2007

David and Im’s "One Space"
Incredible design for a 426 square-foot loft. Wow.

le 11, avril 2007

you thought we wouldn’t notice
Weblog that tracks creative rip-offs and other dastardly deeds

le 4, avril 2007

Four Ways to Bypass Inertia
Chapter-long excerpt from Curt Cloninger’s excellent How-Wiring Your Creative Process

le 22, mars 2007

Behance
“The Behance team develops knowledge, products, and services for the creative professional community.”

le 21, mars 2007

Redesigning the ExpressionEngine Site
Great behind-the-scenes of the glorious redesigns by Canadian Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain

le 9, février 2007

The Design Disease
… and the accompanying Flickr group

le 1, février 2007

Great interview with Khoi Vinh
Lots of interesting stuff on his personal site, the NYTimes, and other design-related topics

le 27, janvier 2007

Craig’s Pissed
That’s some mighty fine ranting

le 25, janvier 2007

Wired redesigns
I think this is more of an evolution than a redesign, but it’s nice and clean-looking just the same.

le 18, janvier 2007

Boxes and Arrows redesigns
And the results are… disappointing. Khoi Vinh agrees.

le 17, janvier 2007

Most Big Books are Crap
Interview with Stefan Sagmeister and his design of WorldChanging

le 2, janvier 2007

15 tips to choose a good text type
I need all the help I can get.

le 18, décembre 2006

sIFR 3b1: The Mo’ Betta Beta
New beta of the flash-based text replacement system.

le 3, décembre 2006

AdVerbatims
but it’s sad ‘cause it’s all true

le 17, novembre 2006

Adobe launches kuler
“explore, create, and share color themes”. Neat!

le 6, novembre 2006

Brand New
New “spin-off” weblog from the mavens at Under Consideration dedicated to branding

le 27, octobre 2006

The Trouble With EM ‘n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
I missed this when it was first published, but it’s a good ‘un
Web design is 95% typography
YES.

le 23, octobre 2006

Typography School
Great short film on typography from the London College of Printing

le 1, octobre 2006

Transmit Icons Replacement
I love the original truck icon, but the toolbar icons kind of bugged me. These are lovely replacements.

le 30, septembre 2006

Scab.
Greg Storey weighs in on the corkd - Joyent - Falkner Winery design thievery
The dashed line in use
Giving the under-appreciated dashed lines its due

le 28, septembre 2006

Alan Fletcher has died
I look at his book The Art of Looking Sideways almost every day.

le 14, septembre 2006

Looking for the best DMG design
What a great idea for a design thread. Lots of good examples.
Michael Tsai on iTunes 7
I think my biggest issue is the lack of consistency - two different types of buttons now, and at least 3 different types of scroll bar

le 12, septembre 2006

“This is my process”
Looking at how designers say they work, and how things actually transpire

le 3, septembre 2006

Bill Stumpf, creator of the iconic Herman Miller Aeron Chair, has died
Like it or not, the Aeron chair was a real game changer.

le 30, août 2006

Typefaces no one gets fired for using
… and typefaces that even your blind, curmudgeonly boss would love
Typobituaries
Typefaces that should be retired…

le 9, août 2006

Urban Counterfeiters
How big clothing stores are ripping off the independent designer

le 25, juillet 2006

The Elements of Style for Designers
Another interesting looking article from B&A (haven’t had time to read it yet)

le 24, juillet 2006

Technorati redesigns
… and it’s not all good. Greg Storey opines.

le 19, juillet 2006

Behind the Scenes: Developing OS X and Longhorn (mp3)
Finally, the podcast from this interesting SXSW panel is available!

le 12, juillet 2006

Microsoft Design
New design site from Microsoft? I hadn’t seen this before.
Four Words to Improve User Research
An oldie but still very much a goodie.

le 29, juin 2006

IDEA 2006 Award Winners
Lots of neat stuff, as usual
Recent Rebrandings 13
One’s nice, one has issues but potential, and the new Mastercard logo is completely bewildering

le 20, juin 2006

Top Designer Says World Cup Design “Just Embarrassing”
I agree - the branding is pretty terrible
50 ways to become a better designer
To read for later

le 16, juin 2006

Asking designers what they would do differently if they could start all over again
With answers from David Carson, Erik Spiekermann, Stefan Sagmeister, and more

le 28, mai 2006

BitfontMaker
Neat web-based bit font creator / editor
Doug Bowman is taking a job at Google
As a “Visual Design Lead”. This is an awesome move by Google - should be interesting to see what the results are

le 26, mai 2006

CoverFlow icon
Gorgeous replacement icon for the already gorgeous Coverflow
Tales From Packaging Hell
When packaging design hurts the ones you love

le 22, mai 2006

monome
Gorgeous grid of 64 backlit buttons that do some very cool stuff (don’t miss the demo video)
How to Silkscreen Posters and Shirts
Coolness.

le 16, mai 2006

The Yahoo! homepage through the years
Personally, I think the new redesign is really nice and forward-thinking for a portal

le 12, mai 2006

BannerBlog
Collection of creative banner ads (via)

le 10, mai 2006

Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!
YES.

le 7, mai 2006

Archives for Debbie Millman’s “Design Matters” talk show
Lots of interesting audio on graphic design here

le 3, mai 2006

Tiger Theme for Omniweb 5.5
Jon Hicks strikes again with a lovely update to his already gorgeous Omniweb theme

le 1, mai 2006

JeffCroft.com
Awe-inspiring redesign with oodles of little details and delicious flourishes.

le 27, avril 2006

Typography for Headlines
What a great “why didn’t I think of that?” idea.

le 26, avril 2006

Design for the Walmart/Nascar Crowd
Interesting article on how designers see differently

le 25, avril 2006

White House Redux
Redesigning the most powerful country’s web site

le 18, avril 2006

Font Spotting the Thank You for Smoking Titles
Font identification is an arcane skill that I totally don’t possess, so I’m impressed

le 17, avril 2006

Design Trends 2006

le 11, avril 2006

Nice redesign of Gapers Block now up
Definitely one of the nicer (if not the nicest) city site designs gets even better

le 5, avril 2006

Toronto Life.com redesigns with web standards, CSS
Good to see more local companies getting on the standards tip.

le 3, avril 2006

NYTimes.com redesigns
and Khoi Vinh posts on the awesome redesign I didn’t do

le 31, mars 2006

“Designers must write”
hear hear!

le 28, mars 2006

Design Melt Down
Smartly designed resource with tons-o-tips

le 20, mars 2006

Warning: May Contain Non-Design Content
Great write up on why everything matters when it comes to talking about design

le 14, mars 2006

Linotype FontExplorer X released
Now 1.0 and Universal for Intel and PPC macs

le 6, mars 2006

DesignEducation.ca
You want thousands of design-related links? You got ‘em.

le 27, février 2006

Fl.ower.
Greg Storey on the design of ma.gnolia

le 24, février 2006

“Reimagining” the Wall Street Journal
Does the size of the ad mean more than the percentage of the page it takes up?

le 15, février 2006

How to Get Ahead in Online News Design
Khoi puts out the call for web monkeys. Man, if I lived in NY I’d be all over this
Designing Interfaces
Companion site for the book. Looks like a must-buy

le 14, février 2006

Yahoo! User Interface Blog
Lots of interesting stuff to read for the UI-obssessed

le 26, janvier 2006

Great Design: What is Design?
Joel Spolsky starts a new series on design

le 12, janvier 2006

Early and often: How to avoid the design revision death spiral
“Compromise does not always lead to the best solution”

le 8, janvier 2006

Failed Redesigns
Joe Clark on recently redesigned sites that fail the standards / accessibility taste test

le 28, décembre 2005

Our Favorite Fonts of 2005 Part 1
Nod-worthy typefaces, all

le 23, décembre 2005

Top 10 Photoshop Tutorials of 2005
Um, 3D Lava Text? But overall these look pretty useful.

le 15, décembre 2005

The Highs and Lows of Web Design in 2005
State of the nation address includes Khoi Vihn, Dave Shea, Jason Fried, and John Gruber

le 10, décembre 2005

PHP & CSS Dynamic Text Replacement
I’m not quite clear on how useful this is at the moment, but it has potential

le 8, décembre 2005

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
“a practical guide to web typography”

le 3, décembre 2005

Rick Poyner on the end of Emigre
I’ve been meaning to Bagatelle this for a while… work kept getting in the way

le 5, novembre 2005

Typography Crash Course Roundup
Nice collection of online typography tutorials

le 1, novembre 2005

Design like Barbara Kruger
DMT grads, this link is for you

le 15, octobre 2005

Design Disasters
Sadly, I’ve been bitten by quite a few of these
20 Best License-Free Official Fonts
There’s some nice fonts here (Vera Sans Mono is great for TextMate)

le 14, octobre 2005

Wired redesign turns 3
The standards-based redesign that started it all (in my opinion). The Wired News Design Documentation is a good read, too.
Cheaper Over Better: Why Web Clients Settle for Less

le 11, octobre 2005

Chip Kidd talks with Milton Glaser
from The Believer and via Kottke
Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia (or Build a Website for No Reason)
basic strategy and objectives for better web sites
Improve your kerning-fu
These flash-based text kerning exercises are really educational

le 8, octobre 2005

The World in Two Footnotes
Examining the two divergent paths that designers often face
The Economist.com redesigns
… and goes wide. Interesting to compare this and the recent Salon redesign - totally different directions

le 7, octobre 2005

House Industries weblog
Nice.

le 6, octobre 2005

Salon celebrates 10 years, redesigns
Now has a very clean, blog-like home page (and I really don’t like it)

le 2, octobre 2005

Lots of great points on desiging web pages
Looks like a good overview
Xyle scope
incredible learning tool for dissecting and editing a web page’s CSS / XHTML

le 1, octobre 2005

Curing Float Drops and Wraps
This happens to me all the time with IE/Win, so this is good to know. (via)

le 30, septembre 2005

AIGA Design Conference 2005 - Resources
Podcasts and other resources - there’s some great stuff here

le 28, septembre 2005

Treehouse
a new web development PDF magazine that looks sah-wank

le 27, septembre 2005

WE05 PodCasts
I’ll be keeping an eye on this - some of the program sounds killer
Blue Flavor opens their doors
congrats, guys! (though this is yet another site with a leaf for a logo… heh)

le 26, septembre 2005

CSS 2.1 selectors
excellent overview
Aesthetic Apparatus Presentation
A recent chat for the Edmonton GDC

le 19, septembre 2005

Typetester - Compare fonts for the screen
handy!

le 17, septembre 2005

Milton Glaser interview
(via)
The Design Encyclopedia
great idea: a wiki dedicated to design terminology
PowerSquid Outlet Multiplier
a great workaround to the problem, but I wish companies would stop making brick plugs in the first place

le 16, septembre 2005

Report on the redesign of The Guardian
I haven’t had time to look closely at this, but first impressions are positive
Originality in Logo Design
Mike Davidson on the worsening trend of design rip-offs
Embrace your bottom!
this will be the new black (and Derek’s redesign is fantastic)

le 12, septembre 2005

Speak Up on the “new” Quark brand
I’m flabbergast how such a design-oriented company could screw up so badly

le 10, septembre 2005

Sim Daltonism
color blindness simulator for Mac OS X (via)

le 9, septembre 2005

How to Manage the Monster
dealing with the client from hell

le 6, septembre 2005

Resources for the Design Entrepreneur
very nice collection of documents

le 2, septembre 2005

The Funniest Grid You Ever Saw
Khoi Vinh goes into some specifics on the grid-based redesign his company did for The Onion

le 31, août 2005

TheOnion redesigns
as does the A.V. Club, both snazzily put together by Behavior

le 24, août 2005

Doug Bowman makes his gorgeous Movable Type photo templates available for download
stupendous work, now free for all

le 23, août 2005

Zeldman breaks down what’s new with A List Apart 4.0
Jason Santa Maria designed, Eric Meyer CSS’ed, Dan Benjamin Ruby’ed… an all-star affair
A List Apart redesigns
absolutely gorgeous design and a new Rails-driven backend

le 18, août 2005

persona non grata
examining the role personas play in good design
The excellent Design In-flight switches from PDF to web format
awesome news - the July issue is up right now

le 17, août 2005

bauhaus-archiv museum of design
sweet, sweet Bauhaus

le 4, août 2005

ColorBlender
very awesome online colour blender tool

le 28, juillet 2005

Beautiful Interfaces with CSS
Doug Bowman’s slides from Digital Design World in Seattle

le 22, juillet 2005

Etched in Stone
Trajan did it.

le 21, juillet 2005

A history of interior design

le 20, juillet 2005

Strategies for CSS Switching
an excerpt from the upcoming (and awesome-looking) Professional CSS
Architecting CSS
most excellent article on CSS organization

le 19, juillet 2005

Who Owns Your Portfolio?
excellent article on design ownership and the law
Creating vector illustrations from photos

le 18, juillet 2005

Fold n’ Drop demo
Interesting concept for moving item between multiple windows

le 17, juillet 2005

Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 2

le 13, juillet 2005

Styled Checkboxes
bookmarked for later
CSS sliding photo-gallery
kind of neat, but the squishing effect on the photos is nasty

le 11, juillet 2005

Quick Start Your Design with XHTML Templates
not a bad selection of starting points

le 5, juillet 2005

Five simple steps to designing grid systems
oooooh… gridalicious

le 1, juillet 2005

Eric’s Universal Child Selector
handy CSS tippage

le 29, juin 2005

BusinessWeek’s 2005 design award winners
some beautiful industrial design here

le 24, juin 2005

CSS Import | The no frills inspirational site
i feel so inspired!

le 23, juin 2005

Interview with Lindon Leader
designer of the seminal FedEx logo
How to come up with creative ideas
another good one from CreativeBits
Corporate identity client questionnaire
looks pretty good to me

le 21, juin 2005

Mark Simonson on Fake vs. True Italics
(via)
Speak Up looks at design clichés
“The handshake. It is the grip of death.”

le 15, juin 2005

COLOURlovers
colours and colour palettes for the lover in you
The unspoken rules of graphic design
“Your client will often not like your design but not quite know why.”
Furax
gorgeous portfolio site with interesting navigation

le 14, juin 2005

Digital Web digs into the principles of design

le 13, juin 2005

Interview with Shynola
via
Shaun Inman redesigns, goes wide
and check out that swank unfurling navigation

le 11, juin 2005

Bruce Sterling’s Top 100 things you should never say during a design critique
my students will relate to this one

le 9, juin 2005

Logo trends for 2005
dammit, bring back the trusty swoosh!

le 31, mai 2005

JavaScript-enhanced image replacement
gotta look into this for a client

le 26, mai 2005

Transparent custom corners and borders
uses JS instead of extra <div> tags. Very cool!

le 22, mai 2005

A History of the GUI
bookmarked for later - looks interesting

le 16, mai 2005

Adobe Proxy Magazine
Nice-looking propaganda published quarterly from the mothership

le 14, mai 2005

Excellent overview of column & grid-based layouts, with examples
The History of Amazon’s Tab Navigation
The navigation widget that launched a thousand web startups

le 12, mai 2005

Draggable boxes
keyboard-enabled, too.
DC Comics gets swooshy
Colonel Saunders gets ultra-vectorized
All the Backpacks that weren’t
interesting overview of design iterations for the Backpack service

le 6, mai 2005

Jello layouts
not really a “brand new” idea, but a new implementation
CSS Cheat Sheet

le 5, mai 2005

Congratulations to the 2005 graduating class of Digital Multimedia Technology
now everyone go and give these wiseacres a job
Some effective looking image sharpening techniques

le 2, mai 2005

CSS Reboot
I suck - I was supposed to reboot the BeatnikPad but had no time.

le 29, avril 2005

Animated gif of the creation of a design
pretty neat stuff (via)
Dream job: Design Director at NYTimes.com
I would never be worthy, but one can dream…
Redesigning (literally) the Four Food groups
a short piece on revamping the Food Pyramid

le 28, avril 2005

sIFR 2.0 released
great to see the official version released

le 25, avril 2005

Jon Hicks updates and CC’s his 3D Box Model
A picture is worth a thousand words

le 22, avril 2005

Five simple steps to better typography
I heart typography tutorials

le 21, avril 2005

John Gruber translates the Adobe - Macromedia acquisition into human-speak
Ah, that’s what they were saying.
Vintage Vanguard - Jazz album art galore
take me to a cool, blue place, indeed.

le 18, avril 2005

Adobe to acquire Macromedia
holy shit. This is massively gigantic.

le 15, avril 2005

Avanti Eco-Egg Mini Washing Machine
very cool-looking design for this tiny washing machine

le 14, avril 2005

10 years of ESPN homepage designs

le 8, avril 2005

Devil’s Details
“A web design blog… for inspiration and learning purposes”

le 2, avril 2005

Edit in Place with JavaScript and CSS
Super cool and highly useful

le 28, mars 2005

Styling even more form controls
with a very comprehensive selection of native form widget examples

le 26, mars 2005

Interview with Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones

le 25, mars 2005

Jeffrey Veen on the sad state of interactive award submissions
bottom line: party like it’s 1997
Worst logo ever
via WDIK

le 23, mars 2005

CSS Rounded Box Generator
gotta love automation
The non-typographer’s guide to practical typeface selection
Cameron Moll breaks it down

le 17, mars 2005

The Next Big Thing in Online Type
examining the new Microsoft screen typefaces

le 15, mars 2005

Design Eye for the … Guy

le 8, mars 2005

A simple introduction to 3 column layouts
superb stuff - well-written and easy to follow

le 1, mars 2005

Sounds like Paul Rand was an ass
not surprising. Why are famous designers often asshats?
Great introduction to sIFR
and sIFR 2.0 RC4 is now available

le 22, février 2005

Mondo collection of TV, music, video game, and movie-themed fonts
oooohhh, the Brady Bunch!

le 17, février 2005

Our Favorite Fonts of 2004

le 13, février 2005

Patterns in Interaction Design
absolutely crazy-cool design nerd lore

le 12, février 2005

Mark Laita
gorgeous work portfolio
CMYK (for Those Who Do RGB)
good overview on that wily colourspace

le 11, février 2005

A Rant (Mostly) About Web Content
Fine words on the subject of words

le 10, février 2005

Dave Linabury on the Chevrolet.com redesign
great interview (note: breaks in Safari)

le 9, février 2005

Automation Will Kill Us All
Jason Santa Maria on the follies of DIY design

le 8, février 2005

Metafilter Redesign Contest
Lots of great stuff, with excellent design justifications by some of the participants

le 2, février 2005

Tips on working with designers

le 28, janvier 2005

Red Bull Copilot
nice flash / video work by odopod

le 27, janvier 2005

Wexley School for Girls
hey, any studio with a theme song is fine by me (via)

le 25, janvier 2005

Design process for the 1001 icon
(1001 is a great Flickr bridge for Mac OS X)

le 24, janvier 2005

Recent Rebrandings
more branding goodness from Speak Up
Chiasmus and the Poetic Pagination

le 22, janvier 2005

Alfred Hitchcock Movie Posters
courtesy of coudal

le 21, janvier 2005

Redundancy vs. Dependency
breaking down the pros and cons of the cascade

le 19, janvier 2005

This CSS Zen Garden design rocks
so animated!
AIGA Design Archives
beautiful work by Second Story, but what’s with the browser sniffing? (Not Omniweb friendly)
Red Labor Presents: Faux Real
“finding design inspiration off-line”

le 18, janvier 2005

Shneiderman’s Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design
Improving the Polar Express Characters
it’s all in the subtleties
Getting Unstuck
Dave Shea examines ways to get your design mojo working

le 17, janvier 2005

NewsDesigner on the Toronto Sunday Star’s redesign

le 15, janvier 2005

Well Vetted Special Edition Sites of the Year 2004
lotsa good stuff to gawk at

le 14, janvier 2005

Setting page-specific styles using PHP
this is some cool shit

le 12, janvier 2005

What Makes a Design Seem ‘Intuitive’?

le 10, janvier 2005

netdiver’s best design of 2004

le 8, janvier 2005

How and when to use sIFR
a good overview

le 6, janvier 2005

300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have

le 5, janvier 2005

2004’s biggest mistakes in Web Design (part one)

le 3, janvier 2005

Subtraction redesign justification
it’s great to see web designers explain their work like this

le 30, décembre 2004

Nice collection of web colour schemes

le 22, décembre 2004

The Improbable Art of Estimating
excellent advice on how to estimate fees

le 21, décembre 2004

Cross-Column Pull-Outs: A List Apart
very interesting…

le 16, décembre 2004

Ocean: CSS Zen Garden
A small graphics-glitch, but this is incredible work (scroll to the bottom)

le 15, décembre 2004

CSS reference for you iPod
what an amazing, highly useful idea

le 13, décembre 2004

Tip: Getting the budget out of a client
awesome tip - I’ll have to try this one

le 9, décembre 2004

Overview of Mozilla Thunderbird’s icon transformation
Mozilla UI guru Kevin Gerich breaks it down

le 8, décembre 2004

Web Design in 2005
trying to forecast tomorrow’s pink, today

le 6, décembre 2004

Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make
fine tips from the dashingly-named Merlin Mann
Camaleon CSS
Spanish CSS gallery

le 3, décembre 2004

The 6 Myths Of Creativity

le 2, décembre 2004

Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs

le 25, novembre 2004

Screen Grab Confab, vol. II
Awesome idea, back for a second round

le 23, novembre 2004

Redesigning Boxes and Arrows winners
Christina and company roll out the top five entries in their redesign contest

le 21, novembre 2004

Made in USA
a really interesting write-up on design priorities and the U.S.

le 10, novembre 2004

Scads of Salon cover graphics

le 8, novembre 2004

Worst redesign of the year
Joe Clark spanks Heather Reisman but good

le 4, novembre 2004

The Underscore Hack
a great way to target CSS rules to Windows IE only

le 2, novembre 2004

Building your own office space
I predict this will be the next big TV show fad: office space makeovers!

le 1, novembre 2004

Suggested reading for information architects
by Peter “that O’Reilly bear book” Morville

le 30, octobre 2004

Bring on the tables
excellent overview of tables and CSS

le 26, octobre 2004

Thinking With Type

le 24, octobre 2004

Ten Ways to Kill Design

le 11, octobre 2004

ABC News Redesigns
another killer redesign by Mike Davidson

le 8, octobre 2004

Volvo: Moved by Flash Video
(hat tip WDIK)

le 5, octobre 2004

An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
more of the shit from 37signals

le 4, octobre 2004

Colour & Computers
another goodie from the Tidbits folks

le 1, octobre 2004

Top 7 Trends in Online Ad Design

le 23, septembre 2004

Excellent redesign white paper from Cameron Moll

le 18, septembre 2004

Dealing With Creative Conflict and Clients

le 11, septembre 2004

misprinted type
beautifully dirty typefaces

le 9, septembre 2004

The Branding of Polaroid, 1957 - 1977
I love this stuff!

le 8, septembre 2004

News sites and eye tracking
I love this stuff
Amnesty International redesign notes
by Zeldman and Happy Cog

le 6, septembre 2004

Rebranding the W3C
interesting deconstruction of concept logo

le 5, septembre 2004

Recommended books for Web designers
Site Diagrams: Mapping an Information Space
great article on site mapping

le 4, septembre 2004

CSS Text-friendly box
Ten CSS tricks you may not know

le 2, septembre 2004

Ideas For Holiday Etailers
the big brains at 37signals strike again
Absolutely Relative
great tutorial on CSS positioning

le 30, août 2004

sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text
very cool.

le 25, août 2004

Stylegala
“the finest CSS and web standards resource”

le 23, août 2004

HYBRIDWORKS
holy flash-o-rama
A Primer of Visual Cliche
[via]
The Anatomy of an Icon

le 21, août 2004

Chevrolet redesigns with CSS and XHTML
it’s great to see such a high-profile site using standards

le 20, août 2004

Royal Tenenbaums’ World of Futura
interesting article on Wes Anderson’s use of type

le 18, août 2004

Great article on Neutraface and Gotham

le 14, août 2004

8 quick ways to fix your search engine
another good ‘un from Adaptive Path

le 13, août 2004

Web Standards Checklist

le 9, août 2004

The Science of Word Recognition
from Microsoft, of all people

le 8, août 2004

Get the Look
looks like some good design tutorials

le 3, août 2004

The inimitable Waferbaby redesigns (again)

le 2, août 2004

Planning for redesign, 1: Establishing the context
Adapting print design skills for the Web
Layout-O-Matic: very cool CSS tool

le 31, juillet 2004

The Big Web Design Details List

le 30, juillet 2004

Gill Sans: does it suck?

le 27, juillet 2004

Designing a CSS-based template: excellent four-part tutorial
IDEA 2004 winners
Stopdesign: Throwing Tables Out the Window
8 things I wished I’d known when I started

le 13, juillet 2004

Six design lessons from the Apple Store

le 12, juillet 2004

MoMA.org: Humble Masterpieces

le 9, juillet 2004

War of the Worlds covers through the ages (via)

le 7, juillet 2004

The Constructivists (via)

le 6, juillet 2004

Speak Up on the new YWCA identity: I like it

le 4, juillet 2004

The Tyranny of the Tagline (via)
The Branding of Polaroid, 1957 - 1977

le 1, juillet 2004

Interface Design Tip: Find the Epicenter

le 29, juin 2004

Coudal redesign: big headlines are in

le 20, juin 2004

How to Make Friends and Influence Art Directors
March to Your Own Standard

le 18, juin 2004

Production for Use

le 17, juin 2004

How I Create My Digital Illustrations in Photoshop

le 16, juin 2004

On Principle: Standing up for your rights

le 13, juin 2004

More photos of the Seattle Public Library (via kottke)

le 12, juin 2004

How Websites Learn

le 11, juin 2004

Awesome Flash Animation tutorial by Chris Georgenes (requires, heh, flash)

le 8, juin 2004

Exercise in Customer Experience

le 7, juin 2004

wellvetted 22
Hillman Curtis documentary on Stefan Sagmeister

le 3, juin 2004

Chip Kidd interview

le 1, juin 2004

McSweeney’s No. 13 and the Revenge of the Nerds

le 30, mai 2004

The New Seattle Central Library: designed by Rem Koolhaas
Grey Box Methodology

le 29, mai 2004

What they didn’t teach me in design & usability school part 1
What they didn’t teach me in design & usability school part 2

le 14, mai 2004

Colour Schemes

le 9, mai 2004

The New Blogger: great design deconstruction

le 8, mai 2004

wellvetted 21 now up

le 30, avril 2004

The Rise of Interface Elegance in Open Source Software

le 21, avril 2004

Todd Dominey on Type on the Web

le 16, avril 2004

The Problem, the Balloon, and the Four Bedroom House: words to live by

le 14, avril 2004

Wiggles the Wonderworm: Totally kicking CSS Zen Garden entry

le 10, avril 2004

What’s in a Font?

le 28, mars 2004

Outside In: 25 posters exploring cultural differences in design

le 24, mars 2004

Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School

le 22, mars 2004

An open letter to Jakob Nielsen: Beautifully said and right on the money

le 19, mars 2004

Double-spacing after periods: Where did it come from?

le 18, mars 2004

So what is “so ’90s” in Web design?

le 11, mars 2004

Rene Wanner’s Poster Page: Whoa.

le 8, mars 2004

TV Logos - animated

le 7, mars 2004

The Economist: design history

le 2, mars 2004

Consumed: Method: Good design does make a difference

le 25, février 2004

Doug Bowman and Aaron Jones Interview: CSS and Wired.com

le 10, février 2004

Web Standards Awards

le 9, février 2004

Branding Mozilla: Towards Firefox 1.0: Mozilla gets a facelift

le 19, janvier 2004

Big collection of rare vintage posters

le 12, janvier 2004

: : Speak Up >The Designer’s worst fear - design block talk

le 8, janvier 2004

2003 BEST Books for Graphic Design and Publishing

le 5, janvier 2004

Web Design Reference - tons o’ links, tons o’ fun
10 FAQs about Web Design
2003 web design fashion trends in review

le 17, décembre 2003

How to Conceive a Layout: Dave Shea kicks out the jams again

le 14, décembre 2003

Logo Graveyard

le 12, décembre 2003

The Visual Vocabulary: 3 years later
AeroSite Airline Logos
Naming a company or product: a process

le 11, décembre 2003

Bjork concert graphics

le 10, décembre 2003

19th Century Advertising History
ADC 83rd call for entries

le 9, décembre 2003

The Virtual Colour Museum

le 24, novembre 2003

The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters
Ad Age 50: top marketing successes of 2003
:output “the biggest international student competition in visual communication”

le 23, novembre 2003

nikelab.com: flashy goodness

le 16, novembre 2003

David Carson Interview

le 15, novembre 2003

The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were: artists do musicians, graphic design style

le 6, novembre 2003

How are Legos made?: Pixelicious!

le 5, novembre 2003

15 Trends in Logo Design
Jewelboxing - beautiful case, great design
10 Reasons to use CSS
ReUSEIT redesigns: A new look for Jakob

le 29, octobre 2003

Massive Lunch Box collection
Celluloid Skyline

le 23, octobre 2003

Adult Movie Posters of the 60’s and 70’s: (sort of work-safe)

le 18, octobre 2003

Born Magazine: Autumn

le 14, octobre 2003

Read Regular: Dyslexia-friendly typeface

le 11, octobre 2003

Judging books by their covers: October edition

le 25, septembre 2003

delve magazine: some really nice work

le 15, septembre 2003

100 Years of Design: exceprts from the book

le 21, août 2003

PowerPoint Is Evil
Tufte wades in, fists a-flyin’
Dave Shea interview (creator of the CSS Zen Garden - great stuff)

le 18, août 2003

The myth of discoverability

le 16, août 2003

“Designer’s Eye for The Usable Guy”: Give Jakob a new look

le 13, août 2003

Breadcrumb Navigation: Further Investigation of Usage

le 25, juillet 2003

old school video game fonts

le 8, juillet 2003

Independent Days - John Gruber on the independent web, toupees, and money. Great stuff.

le 19, juin 2003

The Creative shall rule the Earth

le 13, juin 2003

CA: 40 Years of Design & Advertising

le 12, juin 2003

The Lowest Moments in Advertising

le 9, juin 2003

How to work with a designer
Multiple Mistakes Drown Dishwasher
Spam is not a problem

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