Tag: photo

  • “Doing it with ‘Mac’… –or– “I ♥ Susan Kare” In this television piece on the original Apple Macintosh computer, designer Susan Kare spells out user interface concepts that we take for granted now, e.g. pull down menus described as operating like “window shades”. She also explains how and why the Mac uses rich graphics to […]
  • ems: stonerparty.
  • If you’re going to use advanced CSS3 properties, it only makes sense to use them correctly: write them alphabetically and write as if they’ll be adopted.
  • This virtual party flier, an invitation for an event at SXSW 2010, should keep your Firebug finger busy for a while. The word-art effect, the buildings, the trees, are done entirely in CSS. The only images are avatars and sponsor logos at the bottom. @Font-face fonts provided by Typekit.
  • David Desandro, designer extraordinaire, has recreated the Opera logo in pure CSS. Beautiful use of CSS3 border-radius and gradients. Works in the big three browsers: Firefox 3.6, Safari 4, or Chrome 5.
  • Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak in 1976.
  • Minimalist office in Amsterdam.
  • Click through for more. Via sarzha: alaina
  • The Flying Parade – Coolvibe
  • Speaking of one-stop CSS web apps, Jacob Bijani created his own for generating border-radius rules. Using border-radius can get tricky if all four corners are not the same, as Mozilla is the only browser that breaks the recommended spec. Find this helpful tool at one of four domains: http://border-radius.com/, http://borderradius.com/, http://css-border-radius.com/ or http://cssborderradius.com/.
  • Primer is a useful web app that allows you to paste in HTML and get the appropriate CSS selectors. My workflow looks like this: Design in PhotoShop. Write semantic HTML. Copy and paste HTML into Primer. Get CSS selectors and begin styling. Check out PrimerCSS.com.
  • Kevin Burg: Double Dribble (NES) Kevin Hutchinson and I used to tear it up. I can still hear the announcer’s voice everytime I did, as we then called it, a “slamma jamma.”
  • 2105: A List Apart: Articles: Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web Dan Mall continues to probe the debate between web standards, HTML5 apps and Flash. Good article; rad illustration. Go GloomyBear!
  • David Kaneda: Neven Mrgan: The Panic Status Board – one of the things I’ve been working on lately. Read Cabel’s writeup! This is a thing of pure beauty. We’re already seeing how we can do something similar at Ext. Neven has a nack for making beautiful things that inspire/make me want to lick them.
  • BAM. Thank you guys for recommending me in Tumblr’s Tech Directory.