June 2009
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“You should add a stroked box around a [design] element that can’t stand on...”
– One of my clients told me this in 2002—he had gleaned this knowledge nugget from a design professor at UIC. I think it’s a load of bullshit.
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ClickToFlash is a Must Have →
ClickToFlash is a WebKit plug-in that prevents automatic loading of Adobe Flash content. If you want to see the content, you can opt-in by clicking on it or adding an entire site to the whitelist.
I’m not really big on browser plugins, extensions, toolbars, or whatever. But, if you use Safari on the Mac, this plugin is an absolute must. Flash ads (or anything for that matter) are an ultra...
Going to a “Car-B-Que” today. In memorium of that, here is a picture of a car that is in my parking lot. It’s a VW with Polizei (‘Police’ in German) livery.
Two significances with this:
I don’t live in Germany.
It reminded me of this totally amazing cross-country trip by Team Polizei completed in 32 hours, 7 minutes.
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I like letters, do you like letters?
Last summer I took it upon myself to create a few typefaces—two of which I partly finished. To say that creating usable, durable, venerable type is hard, is probably too much of an understatement to even mutter. Also, to find a type that fits your style is probably even harder. This is likely the reason why many of the best designers only find a small selection of fonts that they feel...
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Thought it’d be a sweet idea to collaborate...
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Think About Push in a Different Way
I’ve been anticipating iPhone Push app functionality for a while now—and it’s finally here. The interesting part about this concept, as opposed to having apps run in the background, is that it is a more distributed system.
Take, for instance, a simple background process that functions to check for new messages (eg. email, IM, etc.). A standard way of implementing this is to...
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