design
Design of everyday things
I have a policy of muting TV adverts due to their inherent idiocy, but here’s one I actually unmuted. I’m a sucker for under-appreciated nick nacks.
See also: 10 Perfectly Pure Gadgets.
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The death of page views, and why we should care
Ask any web geek and they’ll tell you that the page, as we know it, is terminally ill. For many years, it was the proud atom of the web: an unbreakable, fundamental unit. However, much like the atom, it has now been broken down further, and in modern times is being bypassed by Ajax, Flash, [...]
Fail
Maybe a bit unfair to highlight this example of not fully thinking things through; nice concept, shame about the execution. Work through it, you’ll see what I mean.
Bonus link: the Fail blog - celebrate another short-lived internet meme while you can.
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FFFFound
Just to air my love of ffffound.com, a new image bookmarking site in private beta (as every new website is these days). Full of beautiful pictures like this:
At the moment I’m just taking the entire RSS feed, which will obviously become unmanageable once the userbase grows. No indication yet of whether there’ll be any easy [...]
Functional footers are the new black
Time to share a current geeky web design crush: big footers. Seems that quite a few sites are now getting rather bottom-heavy and, you know, I think I quite like it.
There doesn’t seem to be a name yet for this type of expanded area of functionality. Ho hum. I’m calling it a ‘functional footer’ until [...]
Popular Classics
I love the covers of these Penguin books. Gill Sans-alicious. Price tag’s not bad either.
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Busy
It’s no great surprise that my blogging frequency is inversely proportional to how busy I am. It’s not yet reached the stage where I’m staying horribly late and regretting my life, but it’s certainly at the stage where, when I get home, I tend to want to stay offline and decompress. Normally with my Benko [...]
Comics and personas
Inspired by Rebekah Sedaca’s Boxes and Arrows post, some workmates and I took a social day out learn the art of comic drawing. I can barely remember the last time I attempted to draw anything ‘for real’ - it’s long been something I’ve decided I couldn’t (and therefore shouldn’t) do.
And, well, I’m still not hugely [...]
Hidden logo messages
These have already done the rounds, but hey, I think they’re cute. Can you spot the hidden images in the two logos?
No? You sure?
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Danish design
Got back from Copenhagen last night. Ignoring the cheesy tourist clubs, I need to revisit at some point. Interesting and accessible culture, helped hugely by the Danes’ humbling knowledge of English. Throw in pretty girls, good beer, and of course a good deal of nice design (even the theme park’s gift shop went beyond the [...]